Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, was law for 22 days. Judge Mark Barnett put the law on hold yesterday, saying he finds the law unconstitutional. IM22…
Tag: South Dakota
As I read through the court documents in Curd et al. v. South Dakota, the GOP legislators’ lawsuit to overturn Initiated Measure 22, I find one remarkable passage…
South Dakota and Minnesota have increased their minimum wages over the last couple of years, but neither has taken the great leap of Seattle, which raised its…
I just heard Seth Tupper wonder aloud on Dakota Midday why we don’t delay the implementation of voter-approved ballot measures a little longer so state and local officials…
Governor Dennis Daugaard identified Initiated Measure 22 as Budget Enemy #1 in his budget address yesterday. He says the $4.9 million ($9 times 546,615 currently…
I thought that, even if Governor Dennis Daugaard’s foot-dragging and Donald Trump’s victory mean South Dakota never cashes in on Medicaid expansion, we could still save some…
Governor Dennis Daugaard just finished perhaps the most boring budget address of his gubernatorial career. With revenues lagging, there’s not much room for bold new initiatives.…
In his detailed take on the complications caused by the enactment of Amendment S, Seth Tupper brings to our attention the trouble Henry T. Nicholas’s crime victims bill…
In our discussion of Trump’s victory among red-state moochers, I cited David Roberts’s smart linkage of the social issues that some South Dakota Democrats are telling…