The SDRtThing2Do committee is working the Brown County Fair to pitch Amendment T, the proposal to get rid of gerrymandering by empowering an independent redistricting commission…
Tag: redistricting
Rick Weiland’s TakeItBack.org serves up a video that starts like a promo for steak at Parker’s Bistro but turns out to be Weiland’s latest effort to promote Amendment T,…
Dana Ferguson treats us to the family tie of the week in her paper’s first mention on the dust-up at Farmers Union. As you dear readers…
Merry Christmas, believers in democracy! Secretary of State Shantel Krebs this morning certified the redistricting petition! This summer and fall, Farmers Union collected signatures to submit to South Dakota’s voters a constitutional…
Rick Weiland spoke to the Brown County Democratic Forum this noon about the ballot measures his organization, TakeItBack.org, is promoting. If these three initiatives make the ballot (still…
Pot didn’t win in Ohio last night, but redistricting did. 64% of Ohio voters rejected a ballot measure that would have legalized marijuana. 71% of Ohio voters…
With lots of ballot measures coming up in the 2016 election (not to mention a possible local referendum on bonds for a new public library here…
Steve Nemmers from Aberdeen takes to the Sunday paper to tell us that he agrees that gerrymandering is bad but that the Farmers Union proposal to fix…
The Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs Committee presented a lunchtime speech today by Dr. Kenneth Blanchard, political science professor at Northern State University, on…
Elisa Sand tweets that the Aberdeen City Council voted last night to express its opposition to the gerrymandering practiced by the South Dakota Legislature and its support…