U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland gets in the New York Times for smart economic policy and politics. He tells the national audience about how backing an increase in the minimum wage can be a political plus even for a Democrat…
Posts tagged as “minimum wage”
Augustana economics professor Reynold Nesiba responds to the Democrats' apparently successful petition drive with these numbers on how many South Dakotans will benefit if South Dakotans vote to raise the minimum wage to $8.50 an hour: Based on EPI’s analysis,…
And another Dem rides the bus... to Pierre, this morning, with over 25,000 signatures calling for a statewide vote on raising South Dakota's minimum wage! The South Dakota Democratic Party sends out a press release celebrating its apparently enormously successful…
Kudos to Lake County Democrats Lorri May and Shirley Harrington-Moore! The county party announced on Facebook last night that these two ladies have collected the most signatures in the state for the minimum-wage initiative petition. Good hustle, Lorri and Shirley!…
This blog has remained mostly ambivalent toward the "any willing provider" initiative that supporters hope to put on next fall's ballot. Up until last week, I hadn't heard anything about it outside of this little chunk of the blogosphere, either.…
Corinna Robinson made her first public speech as a Democratic candidate for South Dakota's U.S. House seat last night in Beresford. I'm sure she said more than this, but that Sioux Falls paper runs just two sentences from her speech...…
Because I'm a masochist, and because an eager reader mentioned it, I watched Gordon Howie's interview with South Dakota Republican Party Chair Craig Lawrence. (That Chairman Lawrence would sit down with wingnut Howie may signal some sort of bold big-tentiness,…
Busy Dems are happy Dems! The South Dakota Democratic Party calls its faithful friends to action today and tomorrow. Today the Dems plan to do some shouting about the government shutdown in front of Congresswoman Kristi Noem's Sioux Falls office…