We may have four 2016 ballot measures addressing South Dakota’s stance on marijuana. New Approach South Dakota is hustling for signatures on its medical cannabis initiative.…
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The Supreme Court’s declaration that marriage is a basic Constitutional right regardless of whether one wants to marry a man or a woman put South…
Mahendra Trivedi makes the outlandish claim that he can cure cancer and make cattle and crops grow better with energy from his body. If your…
SB 69 Referral Creates Timeline Snarl with SB 67: No Court Challenges for Some Nominating Petitions!
Our successful referral of Senate Bill 69—now Referred Law 19!—to a public vote creates the need for the Legislature to conduct some minor yet urgent statutory clean-up…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs received two referendum petitions this morning at the State Capitol. On behalf of thousands of South Dakotans, I submitted petitions to…
In a week consisting mostly of responding to remarkable political news with regurgitated press releases from its patrons instead of any original analysis, Dakota War College limps forward with a question about…
Stand down from red alert! The Affordable Care Act lives, King v. Burwell is dead, and Justice Antonin Scalia is apoplectic. I open with Scalia, because he is…
Mark Walker of that Sioux Falls paper looks at a Pew Charitable Trusts Stateline report that discusses what states are doing to help ex-offenders get back into the workforce. 70…
Sixth Circuit Judge Kathleen Trandahl has rejected Erin Ageton’s lawsuit against Attorney General Marty Jackley for what she called an incomplete explanation of the proposed ballot…
My local paper runs an editorial from its Sioux Falls counterpart that gets standardized testing and parent and student rights really, really wrong. Let me try to…