South Dakota’s Senate Bill 69, the petition reform bill, has gained unfavorable national attention. The Centrist Project, which promoted Independent U.S. Senate candidates Larry Pressler in South…
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Some Democrats seem most exercised over the anti-placeholder provision of Senate Bill 69. Our Republican friends seem to think that an integral part of “petition…
I had a great time yesterday listening to students debate major South Dakota issues and speaking with them afterward at the South Dakota Democratic Party’s Young Elected Legislative…
“Governor Daugaard drops the microphone,” said the GOP spin blog earlier this week, as if Black Hills Corporation’s decision to build a new corporate headquarters in…
Plus, a guide to starting a referendum! I’d like your input. Yesterday, Governor Dennis Daugaard signed two odious laws: Senate Bill 69, the petition reform…
I rode my bike to the courthouse to get my license plate tags yesterday. (Pause. Enjoy.) My renewal isn’t due until the end of May,…
The pending drive to cap interest rates in South Dakota and rein in predatory payday lenders gets some national press this week with a hefty article in The Atlantic. Sean McElwee’s…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has named the first thirteen members of his new Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students (what’s our pronounceable acronym: BluRT-FTS?):…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has plenty of mess to clean up from her predecessor’s poor performance. The Lucy Burns Institute studied the accessibility of state election agencies in…
Speaking of initiatives, the cannabis advocates hoping to put two marijuana initiatives on the 2016 ballot should look up Governor Peter Norbeck. First South Dakota governor born in Dakota…