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Dakota Voice Week in Review, Ending July 18, 2009

Dakota Voice Week in Review, Ending July 18, 2009

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: an anti-American “Science Czar,” updates on President Obama’s birth certificate, a black red Green Czar, a study that rocks confidence in global warming models, a supreme court nominee who doesn’t see a right to self-defense, the institutional insanity that is socialized medicine, government extravagance on the taxpayer’s dime, the South Dakota smoking ban, euthanasia in the hands of strangers, and Congress living under the health care plan they create. Read more »

Petitions signatures against smoking ban tell another story

Petitions signatures against smoking ban tell another story

The high number of petition signatures challenged in the attempt to overturn South Dakota’s smoking ban is very noteworthy. But columnist Gordon Garnos believes it tells us something else about our elections, and our society. Read more »

Opponents to smoke ban are only delaying a smoke-free South Dakota

Opponents to smoke ban are only delaying a smoke-free South Dakota

Opponents of South Dakota’s smoking ban have managed to delay implementation of the new law and get it on the ballot next year. However, despite the appeal to freedom and the free market, they face an uphill battle. Read more »

South Dakota Legislative Recap 2/2/2009

 
Daily Recap 2/2/2008
From the 2009 South Dakota Legislature, todays activity on bills of note…

Bill #
Bill Desc
Activity

HB 1240
prohibit smoking tobacco or carrying lighted tobacco products in certain places and to require certain persons to inform violators of the prohibition.
Introduced

HB 1257
provide for the right to possess a firearm on the campuses of public institutions of higher education.
Introduced

HCR [...] Read more »