A casual reader asks me to name the one change I would make to the initiative process. One? Ha! If you review the “People Power Initiative”…
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Even paying circulators $22 an hour couldn’t get South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws 16,961 signatures in four slim weeks on its Plan B petition…
According to the Secretary of State’s ballot question website, only one initiative petition was submitted yesterday, the Medicaid expansion amendment sponsored by the big hospitals…
South Dakota democracy still has a fighting chance in federal court. Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann denied the state’s request that he stay his…
If you’re looking for a quick two weeks of work, the four committees circulating ballot question initiatives would be happy to put you to work.…
Sponsors of South Dakota’s proposed initiated constitutional amendments have two weeks and two days to collect their 33,921 petition signatures and submit their completed petitions…
Governor Kristi Noem and the State of South Dakota have lost another battle in their war on your initiative and referendum rights. Three months ago,…
The State of South Dakota is spending more of your money to take away your hard-won rights. On Tuesday, the state notified the United States…
South Dakota’s marijuana advocates promised in July to wage a new initiative petition drive to put full cannabis legalization on the ballot again if the…
South Dakotans outraged over the effort by Texas and the theocrat-stacked Supreme Court to outlaw abortion, not to mention Governor Kristi Noem’s promise to follow…