Republicans hoot and holler about government invading your relationship with your doctor. How would you like to keep insurers from coming between you and your doctor? The South Dakota Legislature almost took a step in this direction last winter with…
Posts tagged as “initiative”
That Sioux Falls paper gets on the stick and discusses the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, and Democrats' plan to place on the 2014 ballot an initiative to raise South Dakota's minimum wage. Reporter Kelly Thurman presents some useful numbers for framing the…
Want a vote? Want a raise? Vote Democratic! Once again the South Dakota Democratic Party is demonstrating its belief in workers and small-d democracy. This morning, Dems interim exec Zach Crago joined the South Dakota AFL-CIO and the Teamsters in…
Senate Bill 70, Governor Dennis Daugaard's omnibus bill to reform South Dakota's burgeoning corrections system, received strong approval from the full Senate yesterday. Only two senators voted no on vague concerns about growing government. Some of my crankier Republican friends…
I've posted a new column at South Dakota Magazine on Initiated Measure 15. The extra-penny sales tax (or, as Steve Sibson would prefer I label it, the 180-million-dollar tax increase) continues to delay the completion of the ballot sitting on…
Bob Mercer meanders through Initiated Measure 15, the voter initiative proposing an extra-penny sales tax to fund K-12 education and Medicaid. He tries to stir some mud about a potential "legal mess" if IM15 passes: The constitution reserves to the…
House Republicans believe in states' rights... except when they don't. Rep. Steve King says he's a firm believer in states' rights. But he doesn't want states regulating what kind of agricultural products enter their markets. That's why he amended the…
The latest Madville Times poll tests the thesis offered by some K-12 superintendents trying to tamp down a referendum effort by their teachers. Here's what you said over the last three days: How will referring HB 1234 to a public…