The Legislature’s task force on initiative and referendum wrapped up its work on Friday by taking the last good proposal it had, the Citizen Initiative…
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Yesterday I erroneously complained on Twitter that, with just two hours to go before the Initiative and Referendum Task Force met, the Legislative Research Council…
The state Department of Education has released its official calculation of South Dakota’s average teacher pay in the first year of the extra half-penny sales…
Neal Gabler writes that the most successful lie that chronically myth-making Republicans have foisted upon us is that liberals are unwelcome deviants from America’s conservative…
De Knudson came to Aberdeen today to see some old friends and collect signatures for the Open Primaries South Dakota initiative petition. Amidst that business,…
Dakota War College does its sponsors’ bidding again, this time forwarding the Koch Brothers’ effort to jam direct democracy by discouraging people from signing any…
The Constitution Party of South Dakota yesterday announced that Kurt Evans will seek our tiniest official party’s nomination for Governor in 2018. The CP notes that…
New Zealand conspiracy hack Trevor Loudon’s speeches in South Dakota this make clear that anti-refugee agitation is really a Republican Red-Scare-style attack on Democrats. The…
Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds will vote for Cassidy-Graham, the worst Republican Affordable Care Act repealer yet, even though they have no report from…
South Dakota’s minimum wage will increase 20 cents to $8.85 an hour next year. That’s the largest jump since South Dakotans approved raising the minimum…