We’re two steps toward the Rick Weiland trifecta! Yesterday Secretary of State Shantel Krebs certified the Anti-Corruption Act initiative petition. Secretary Krebs calculates that 18,122 out of…
Month: January 2016
Former Senator Stan Adelstein is holding a press conference this morning in Rapid City to propose his own plan for funding the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s…
Thirty more bills dropped into the Legislative hopper today (House leads Senate on prefiled bills, 24 to 23). Brought by Rep. Don Haggar (R-10/Sioux Falls) on…
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission decided to let TransCanada gamble on a Big Oil Republican winning the White House this year. The PUC voted unanimously…
Mike Maciag of Governing posts this really instructive chart on the share of state revenues borne by individuals and corporations paying state income taxes: Back in 1950,…
Just like South Dakota, North Dakota has a teacher shortage. Just like South Dakota, North Dakota convened a task force to tackle the problem last summer.…
Marshall Korn grew up around dairy cows in Minnesota and South Dakota. When he graduated from Garretson High School in 2001, he wanted to become a dairy…
Attorney General Marty Jackley released four key pieces of information on his investigation of the apparent Westerhuis murders, arson, and suicide south of Platte on September 17,…
John Tsitrian reads an RCJ updated version of Bob Mercer’s report on South Dakota’s growing economy and notices what didn’t happen: South Dakota’s 17% increase in the minimum wage…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) thinks increasing teacher pay to address the number-one crisis in K-12 education, the teacher shortage, is dead on arrival. But he thinks the…