The state has responded to Melissa Mentele’s lawsuit to place the medical cannabis initiative on the November ballot. The state offers three main arguments: The Secretary of…
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New Approach South Dakota is asking a judge to place its medical cannabis initiative on South Dakota’s November ballot. In a complaint filed yesterday in Sixth…
Thanks to his primary loss in June, Rapid City lawyer and rent-a-cop boss Kenneth E. Orrock will be Bennett County’s state’s attorney for only a few…
Speaking of addiction, Pennington County is facing a lawsuit in federal court over arresting a meth addict who sought treatment but showed up at the City…
I generally resist blogging about anyone’s divorce, child custody, or child support issues. Writing about such family disagreements usually brings nothing but trouble. However, a fellow teacher…
Lawrence County voters have successfully referred a quarry permit to a special vote on August 30, but their county commission has rejected a companion initiative effort to amend…
My conversation with Greg Belfrage on KELO Radio this morning reminds me of one of the bills I want to throw in the hopper next year: the…
Meanwhile, one Republican is able to oppose a ballot measure on something other than partisan grounds. Sioux Falls attorney and first Janklow-era Attorney General Mark Meierhenry joined…
In his report on his Legislative Interim work, Senator Arthur Rusch (R-17/Vermillion) brings up an issue that I think surfaced in one of our earlier blog…
Bob Mercer reports that the South Dakota Supreme Court has sent a legal challenge against Michael Crinion’s proposed 3,999-head factory dairy in the Lake Hendricks watershed…