G. Mark Mickelson sponsored Initiated Measure 25, the buck-a-pack tobacco tax hike, with the promise of putting up to $20 million a year into vo-tech…
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On my milk run to the corner Cenex last night, I found a “NO on IM 25” display on the counter with a whole packet…
The first monthly revenue report of Fiscal Year 2019 suggests our tax revenues are again outperforming our Legislature’s conservative estimates. We bought more stuff in…
Both the Democratic and Republican parties of South Dakota have declared themselves opposed to Initiated Measure 25, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s (R-13/Sioux Falls) proposed tobacco…
Patrick Lalley is back from seeing the Pope in Italy, and he’s stuck visiting with me again on the radio. But we still made the…
…But We’re Smoking Less! Despite multiple spring snowstorms, South Dakotans still got out and shopped more than expected in April. The latest state revenue report…
Team Mickelson is two for two on initiative petitions! Yesterday Secretary of State Shantel Krebs certified House Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s petition to put to…
If you’re looking for reliable coverage of ballot measures, don’t look to the Michell paper. Their Monday report on David Owen’s local presentation on pending…
When you are Speaker of the House, you still get to circulate initiative petitions to put measures to a public vote. But unlike other petitioners,…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) wants us voters to decide whether to raise our wholesale tobacco tax to reduce tuition at our regionally uncompetitive…