Attorney General Mark Vargo has been on the job for less than two months, and his job doesn’t really include keeping the public updated on…
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According to the Secretary of State’s ballot question website, only one initiative petition was submitted yesterday, the Medicaid expansion amendment sponsored by the big hospitals…
Sponsors of South Dakota’s proposed initiated constitutional amendments have two weeks and two days to collect their 33,921 petition signatures and submit their completed petitions…
Governor Kristi Noem and the State of South Dakota have lost another battle in their war on your initiative and referendum rights. Three months ago,…
One of the saddest things a passionate democrat can receive is a rejection letter from Kea Warne. Such was the bummer Rick Weiland experienced on…
Wow—pretending to be Attorney General has made Jason Ravnsborg so tired that, presented with two potential ballot questions to expand Medicaid in South Dakota, he…
“We don’t suffer from gridlock; we suffer from one-party domination,” says Rick Knobe in this documentary clip from Hedrick Smith on initiative, referendum, and the…
Donald Trump continues to take “bully pulpit” too literally as he tries to take health insurance away from people worse off than he is. Sanford…
Republicans play class warfare. Consider today’s post from Dakota War College, in which Pat Powers slimes Democratic candidate for U.S. House Tim Bjorkman for riding…
Well, nuts. It looks like this year all the crummy ballot questions are qualifying while most of the good ones aren’t. Secretary of State Shantel…