Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act, includes one potentially unconstitutional section. Scroll to the bottom and read Section 68: There is hereby appropriated from the…
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I hear a lot more griping about Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act that took effect last week, from Republicans than from Democrats. Hmmm… I’m thinking if…
Senator-Elect Al Novstrup and I agree that video lottery is a terrible way to fund state operations. Novstrup said (at about 53:00 in our November 4 KSDN radio debate)…
Making the Internet rounds this week is an e-mail that, according to multiple sources, comes from Republican Dusty Johnson drumming up cash and word-of-mouth for his freshly announced U.S. House…
On October 28, Governor Dennis Daugaard issued a press release stating that his Blue Ribbon sales tax increase and new school funding formula has raised South…
The fact that Dusty Johnson is running for Congress is pretty cool. But even cooler is the likely reason that we know he’s running now: the swift enactment…
544,393 South Dakotans were registered to vote on Election Day. That’s a record, says Secretary of State Shantel Krebs. The 378,995 who turned out to exercise…
Journalist and political reform activist Hedrick Smith boosted South Dakota’s Initiated Measure 22 earlier this year. He returns with a blog post celebrating Rick Weiland and Drey Samuelson’s…
Returning Republican District 9 Senator Deb Peters wins recognition as one of Governing‘s eight Public Officials of the Year… mostly for supporting more taxes: In South Dakota,…