One person on the way into the final listening session of the Blue Ribbon K-12 funding task force asked me, “Is this going to be a…
Month: June 2015
Stand down from red alert! The Affordable Care Act lives, King v. Burwell is dead, and Justice Antonin Scalia is apoplectic. I open with Scalia, because he is…
I noted yesterday that the most important words spoken at the Aberdeen sessions of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students may have…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students wrapped up its information-gathering sessions here in Aberdeen Tuesday. I attended all three sessions and found…
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has signed a five-year contract with Denver-based Monarch America to help the tribe grow marijuana. The tribe will sell pot for recreational…
CNBC dealt Governor Dennis Daugaard’s propagandists a body blow last year by dropping South Dakota’s business-friendliness ranking from #1 to #11. Now CNNC twists the knife,…
Wait a minute: Monday I reported that South Dakota is led the region for job growth in May. Wasn’t raising the minimum wage supposed to kill…
The most important words I heard at yesterday’s opinion-gathering sessions hosted by Governor Dennis Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students may have been the statement panel…
A couple weeks ago, Erin Ageton, VP of title-lender Select Management Resources, sued to delay Steve Hildebrand’s and Steve Hickey’s proposed ballot initiative to cap interest rates at…
Unlike Kristi Noem, the Public Utilities Commission really is seeking public input on the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The PUC is hosting a public input session…