The Legislature’s interim task force on initiative and referendum met yesterday and, taking no further public input, approved nine of its twenty draft proposals for…
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Senator Bob Ewing (R-31/Spearfish) isn’t shopping at the Spearfish Sears, due to marijuana politics. Spearfish Sears owners Phil and Stephanie Rebsom have been circulating petitions…
Attorney General Marty Jackley has said more than once that he could support medical marijuana under three conditions: “What I have indicated as Attorney General…
Another petition is street-ready! Doug Kronaizl announces on Represent South Dakota’s Facebook page that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has approved his group’s South Dakota…
A couple of marijuana liberalization advocates are competing for South Dakotans’ signatures on their initiative petitions. In Sioux Falls Tuesday, New Approach South Dakota got…
The newest Dakota Free Press podcast is ready for your ears! In Episode #12, incumbent Aberdeen City Council candidate Dennis “Mike” Olson tells all about the fundamental…
Last week’s notice from the South Dakota Board of Elections brings to my attention an important change to petition law that escaped my attention during Session. This…
Sunday is laundry day… and tomorrow it’s petition day! New Approach South Dakota is bringing its ballot measure petitions for medical cannabis, recreational cannabis, and assisted suicide…
The Legislature waged half-war on the popular democracy yesterday, repealing Initiated Measure 22 but withdrawing a bill that would have put the process of amending the constitution out of reach…
Updated 2017.02.25 18:00 CST In their rush to repeal Initiated Measure 22, “South Dakota Lawmakers Are Showing Populism Is a Lie” (so goes the Washington Post headline).…