The Rapid City School Board has an interesting petition case in federal court. School board candidate Lafawn Janis submitted a petition with sufficient signatures to…
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I don’t want to get in the habit of throwing stones at the Judicial Branch, since, as G. Mark Mickelson once told me, legal minds…
Friends of democracy, starting tomorrow, I should have two petitions available for you to sign. As you know, I’m circulating an initiative petition to roll…
I plan to refer House Bill 1094 to a public vote. HB 1094 is Rep. Jon Hansen’s unconstitutional plan to force ballot question petitioners to…
The Republican war of attrition on your right to petition continues. Instead of duking it out in conference committee, House Republicans yesterday said fine, whatever, to…
The Senate yesterday passed an amended version of House Bill 1094, the latest monkey wrench Republicans want to throw in to the initiative and referendum…
Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) said at Saturday’s crackerbarrel that he supported Senate Bill 100 to reduce the number of signatures conservation district candidates have to secure…
House Bill 1094, the unnecessary and possibly unconstitutional proposal to make South Dakotans get approval from the Secretary of State before exercising their First Amendment…
Prior to Senate State Affairs’ summary execution of Senator Reynold Nesiba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) Senate Bill 157, a real effort to improve civic engagement by removing unfair…
I sent my petition sample, circulator form, and sponsor’s affidavit to the Secretary of State yesterday to move my meta-initiative petition toward circulation: If you’re…