The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office is having the same trouble retaining workers as other employers: Willie Whelchel, Chief Deputy for Pennington County Sheriff’s office says…
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Reed Holwegner really doesn’t like communicating with the public. The director of the Legislative Research Council unnecessarily withheld the Ravnsborg investigation file last fall, participated in…
Last month the Sioux Falls City Council approved raises for city employees, a pro-labor move that, coming less than two months before the April 12…
Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation has found the magic solution to the workforce shortage—raise wages: Last summer, starting lifeguard pay was $10.50 per hour. The…
Contrary to Republican bushwah, the “tyranny” of vaccine mandates has not caused a shortage of health care workers at rural hospitals: Rural hospital officials who…
Last night the Sioux Falls City Council approved $2,000 bonuses for most of its full-time employees, a $17.50 minimum wage for city employees, a $500…
Our legislature has hoghoused—i.e., “amended extensively“—just two bills so far. But Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is proposing an honest-to-goodness hoghouse bill to make work…
Governor Kristi Noem has flattened the curve of vacancies in the Department of Corrections. According to DOC officials speaking to the Joint Appropriations Committee in…
In another win for workers, protest from Corrections employees who were promised fairer holiday pay last summer but saw no action from the Governor has…