Hermosa man plans to press pot issue at legislature
Rapid City Journal - Wed Dec 3, 7:54 am ESTSupporters of a medical marijuana law in South Dakota are preparing to ask the 2009 Legislature to reconsider the issue.
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Supporters of a medical marijuana law in South Dakota are preparing to ask the 2009 Legislature to reconsider the issue.
Budgetary issues will be the main focus of the upcoming South Dakota legislative session, according to Dave Owen, president of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Electoral votes to be cast Dec. 15
South Dakota didn’t follow the same historic path as the much of the nation did Tuesday, but Clay County did.
Barack Obama, a Democrat, will serve the country as president for the next four years, even though South Dakota voted for Republican John McCain. McCain won South Dakota with 53 percent of the vote, but Obama took 52 percent of the popular vote nationwide and 349 of the Electoral College votes.
Students mirrored only some of their parents' choices in the Kids Voting South Dakota mock election program, re-electing Tim Johnson and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin to Congress but choosing Barack Obama for president.
Voters in Colorado and South Dakota rejected ballot measures Tuesday that could have led to sweeping bans of abortion, and Washington became only the second state -- after Oregon -- to offer terminally ill people the option of physician-assisted suicide.
Democrats apparently gained 4 seats in the South Dakota House in Tuesday's election, but they may have lost 1 in the Senate.
South Dakota will be America's battleground in the passionate dispute about abortion rights for years to come, a result of easy ballot access and a committed force of local anti-abortion activists. That's the assessment of leaders of national advocacy groups on both sides of the issue, as well as some legal scholars who have watched from the outside for two election cycles as South Dakotans beat ...
WASHINGTON - Divisions between two camps of the anti-abortion movement might have helped doom ballot measures to ban abortion in South Dakota and Colorado and stymied plans to challenge the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in the voting booth. South Dakota voters rejected their ballot measure 55 percent to 45 percent, while Coloradans rejected theirs 73 percent to 27 percent. The South Dakota ...
PIERRE - Even before Tuesday's legislative elections, a sweeping change of leadership in the South Dakota House of Representatives was assured. The top two House leaders in each political party left that chamber to run for the Senate - three for the state Senate, one for the U.S. Senate. Republican Leader Larry Rhoden of Union Center and Democratic Leader Dale Hargens of Miller, each ...