I could have told Rep. Jim Stalzer (R-11/Sioux Falls) that he didn’t need the long weekend to read Rep. Jeff Partridge’s (R-34/Rapid City) proposed Internet sales…
Month: February 2016
The Mid-Central Educational Cooperative included discussion of House Bill 1182, the Governor’s sales tax increase for teacher pay, on its regular meeting agenda yesterday. Among the…
Rep. Jim Stalzer (R-11/Sioux Falls) is feeling the heat for leading the Republican stalling of the Governor’s sales tax plan to fund teacher pay increases. After…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative appears to be cleaning house. Executive director Dan Guericke, who hasn’t made any substantive public statement since shortly after the Westerhuis murder-arson-suicide launched the GEAR UP…
The Lack of Legislative Leadership Award for the day goes to Senator Deb Soholt (R-14/Sioux Falls). As chair of Senate Education, she cast the deciding vote this…
On one important issue, Rep. Scott Craig (R-33/Rapid City) chose decency and good sense over politically motivated fear-mongering. The Rapid City Republican had introduced House Bill 1158,…
I am officially reaching the old-man stage. When I turn on pop radio, the new “songs” they play to get kids to buy stuff sound like angry,…
Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) launched a slightly more subtle attack on House Bill 1182 this afternoon. Before the Stalzer Stall, but right after his…
Teachers and administrators came from all around South Dakota today to watch the House of Representatives debate House Bill 1182, the Governor’s inferior (but preferable to…
The South Dakota Budget and Policy Institute surges into the teacher-pay-raise debate with a great analysis of the competing sales tax proposals. Both proposals, Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard’s…