South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO David Owen takes a potshot at the two marijuana initiatives currently circulating in South Dakota: T –…
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As another sign of how Republicans have throttled initiative process with excessive paperwork, the Secretary of State’s office is giving petition sponsors a warning that…
I don’t like losing… but I also don’t like wasting time and money on a clearly losing battle. I have ended the People Power Petition…
It looks like I’ll see the Attorney General’s people in court again this year. In the “Report of Rule 26(f) Meeting” filed last week in…
The Sioux Falls Board of Ethics contrived an excuse last month to tell city council members that they shouldn’t collect signatures on municipal initiative petitions.…
The Pierre Capital Journal reported last week on Dan Ahlers’s just-launched petition drive to repeal gerrymandering and empanel and independent commission to draw fair Legislative…
There are more Republicans than Democrats in South Dakota, and even more elected Republicans than elected Democrats, so it’s perfectly statistically predictable that I would…
After the Huron rain, between snack breaks (I haven’t had a corn dog yet, but Kevin let me eat some of his fries), secret whispers…
John Dale, who is circulating an initiative petition to legalize cannabis in South Dakota, is trying a novel approach to soliciting signatures, using online signups…
It’s not just the Legislature that wants to stifle citizens’ ability to petition and vote directly on the laws under which they live. The City…