Senator Ried Holien (R-5/Watertown) is interested in reforming the petition process for ballot measures. Senate Bill 91 would add some information to the form that petition circulators are supposed…
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Secretary of State Shantel Krebs reminds campaigners of all stripes that their year-end campaign finance reports are due in her hands by Monday, February 1. Hop…
Last year Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) and the Republican majority in the Legislature made the error of undoing the will of the people expressed in Initiated…
That Sioux Falls paper’s new political reporter decided to write a Sunday piece about the South Dakota Democratic Party. Dana Ferguson’s report included the following statements:…
Sorry, Mr. Spitzer: it sounds like Aberdeen wants to be more like Minnesota. Yesterday’s referendum in Aberdeen on issuing $7.7 million in bonds to build a new public library…
Only 15.5% of Mitchell’s electorate voted yesterday in favor of building an $8-million indoor pool. But since only 28.5% of Mitchell’s electorate came to the polls, that was enough…
Three more ballot measures made yesterday’s submission deadline in the Secretary of State’s office. I’ll write up each of these newly submitted measures today. For…
When South Dakotans successfully suspended Senate Bill 69 last summer and put it to a vote in 2016 as Referred Law 19, they created a kink…
How can you tell the difference between a shady petition circulator who’s up to no good and a real South Dakota circulator who’s trying to put an honest…
The Aberdeen City Council approved issuing $7.7 million in bonds Monday to fund construction of a new public library. Shortly thereafter, my neighbor Duane Riedel launched his petition…