The lesson this spring: don’t pass legislation that torques off folks in Aberdeen. A group calling itself South Dakota Veterans for Veterans has filed the papers necessary…
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Supporters of the referred school opt-out have taken to the web. Support Our Schools RC urges Rapid City school district voters to vote yes on June 2 for the six-million-dollar,…
Whoo-hoo! The South Dakota Democratic Party has a webpage up to recruit petitioners to help refer the odious Senate Bills 69 and 177! Here’s how the Dems…
And Bonus: SB 177 Means Fewer Kids Get Jobs! I’ve mentioned the training wage, known as the “opportunity wage” in South Dakota, in a couple of…
In other referendum news, our hardy team of petition circulators in Sioux Falls just added some star power. The dean of Sioux Falls talk radio and erstwhile two-term…
The petition drives to refer Senate Bill 177 (the youth minimum wage) and Senate Bill 69 (the “incumbency protection plan,” as one circulator calls it) are charging…
Brookings friends! Are you looking for a chance to sign the petitions to refer SB 69 and SB 177 to a public vote? Tuesday—tomorrow!—is your day! Circulators…
The petition drive to refer Senate Bill 69 and Senate Bill 177 continues with circulators across the state working events and going door to door…
Governor Dennis Daugaard attended the signing ceremony for the new Chinese-government-run Confucius Institute on the Northern State campus here in Aberdeen yesterday. Celebrating the Confucius Institute’s teaching…
The press is just starting to get a grip on the more complicated of the two laws this blog is helping to refer to a public vote.…