MITCHELL — A proposed measure to reinstate abortion rights hasn’t made the ballot yet, but the debate is underway. About 100 people converged Tuesday evening on Dakota Wesleyan University for a discussion sponsored by the university’s McGovern Center as part of its Courageous Conversation series. The room was filled with attendees from both sides of […] The post Debate begins on abortion-rights ballot measure as Mitchell event brings out both sides appeared first on South Dakota Searchlight.
South Dakota and Mississippi are the only states that have a full state sales tax rate on groceries, but that could change in November. Circulators of a petition to repeal the state sales tax on groceries said they planned to turn in enough signatures Wednesday to the South Dakota Secretary of State’s Office to place the […] The post Group says it’s filing petition signatures to put grocery tax repeal on ballot appeared first on South Dakota Searchlight.
This story has been updated throughout. PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Organizers behind a drive to repeal South Dakota’s 4.2% tax on purchases of all items for human consumption have delivered their petitions to the South Dakota Secretary of State. The petition drive’s head, Rick Weiland, a Democrat, said that the petitions carried more than 25,000 […]