An eager reader reports that someone is robocalling against Medicaid expansion in South Dakota: All of the questions began “would you be more likely, [less likely]…
Month: December 2015
Via Wonkblog, I learn the Census just issued new state population estimates for 2015! Whoo-hoo! What do we learn about South Dakota? As of July 1,…
Pat Powers rushes to tamp down the Robert Pear’s suggestion of a split between Pat’s sponsors Governor Dennis Daugaard and Senator John Thune on Medicaid expansion…
Pat Powers invites you to advertise on his blog. For your money he offers you exposure to “non-campaign season traffic” that “averages 1000-1500 unique individual…
The real 36% rate cap on payday loans is on the 2016 ballot! Cap the Rate SD informs me that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs…
It’s hard to tell where USD hires its proofreaders. Jill Callison caught USD’s marketing department committing this roadside assault on apostrophes: Dakota’s… Dakota’s what? The…
Sensible Republican blogger (the terms are not mutually exclusive) John Tsitrian says it’s crazy that South Dakota doesn’t have an income tax and it’s crazy…
Perhaps in the “no news is good news department,” the scandal-rocked Mid-Central Educational Cooperative board met for three hours in executive session on December 17, apparently…
House Bill 1001 would pull South Dakota out of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, a non-profit formed in 1991 to help postsecondary institutions from the Dakotas to Missouri…
I’m reading a book by John Rawls called Political Liberalism [Columbia University Press, 1996]. The introduction offers this neat summary of the primary question we politicians (and…