Even if Senate Bill 69 takes effect, legislative candidates won’t have to start their petitioning until December 1. But we already have three candidates, each…
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If we Democrats and über-conservative Republicans could get along, we could tag-team Governor Daugaard into a tizzy. At the same time that he was penning a specious,…
We’re entering the final thrilling weeks of our referendum push! I’m walking around Aberdeen (and friends and allies are working Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and elsewhere) with…
DiSanto Prefers School Consolidation! State legislators Phil Jensen, Lance Russell, Blaine Campbell, and Lynne DiSanto staged a press conference yesterday to express their opposition to the Rapid…
Former legislator and blog sponsor Stan Adelstein is urging his Rapid City neighbors to vote yes on the school opt-out on the June 2 ballot. Without the…
Ken Santema notices that the Government Operations and Audit Committee is meeting Tuesday in Pierre. 2014’s most baloneyful committee quietly takes up, among other things, the most recent audit…
Finally, the Republican spin machine finds a hook it thinks it can use against the referral of Senate Bill 69. Naturally, the South Dakota Republican Party can’t…
Dean Kurtz of Custer sends a fine letter to the editor of the Hot Springs Star criticizing Senate Bill 177, the youth minimum wage. He tells his neighbors that signing…
In the Tea Leaves Department, Attorney General Marty Jackley may have given a hint of a ballot initiative coming to the petition trail at a Deadwood forum last…
Kids just can’t catch a break on the prairie. Nebraska is currently considering a youth minimum wage that almost exactly parallels the kid-exploiting, voter-disrespecting Senate Bill 177 passed…