The ballot question pro/con statements are out! Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has posted the PDF version of the 2016 Ballot Questions Pamphlet, which includes the…
Tag: Referred Law 20
SDPB broadcasts opposing views on Referred Law 20, the youth minimum wage cut we get to vote down in November. SDPB’s new Rapid City correspondent…
Fellow Democratic Legislative candidate Paul Schipper (District 11 House) does voters the favor of posting my June 25 explanation to the South Dakota Democratic Convention of why…
Aberdeen American News business reporter Victoria Lusk (boy, I don’t know which AAN scribe has the better superhero alias, Victoria Lusk or Shannon Marvel) grinds out…
Governing posts unemployment data that might make David Novstrup think his youth minimum wage was a good idea. According to new U.S. Department of Labor data for…
Ken Santema shot the video from last week’s Brown County Democratic Forum; I did the editing to offer this 80-second nugget on why we should reject…
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…
Here’s the text of a letter to my Aberdeen neighbors that I’m hoping the Aberdeen paper will publish: From April through June, you saw me with…
South Dakota, well done! We got two measures—Referred Law 19 (petition reform) and Referred Law 20 (youth minimum wage)—on the ballot. We have stopped these two bad…
The Aberdeen American News weighs in with an editorial seemingly cheering the referral of the youth minimum wage and the incumbent protection plan to the November 2016…