Tucked into pages 24 and 44 of Governor Daugaard’s FY2018 budget summary book is the state price tag for Amendment S, the somewhat redundant crime victims bill of…
Month: December 2016
In 2013, South Dakota state government introduced pay for performance for “career banded” state employees—accountants/auditors, information technologists, nurses, environmental scientists, and engineers. Each year, state employees…
Human Rights Watch came to Sioux Falls a couple weeks ago to release a report showing the discrimination that LGBT youth face in South Dakota and other states.…
Chew over these budget numbers: The Governor’s budget proposal projects sales and use tax revenue in Fiscal Year 2018 of $1.013 billion. That revenue projection is…
The United States is on track to see over 700 million domestic enplanements in 2016. For the first time, over one million of those flyers will…
A coalition of activist groups, including Democracy Spring, Americans Take Action, the Electoral College Petition, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, is attempting to stage…
Sheldon Osborn, organizer of Drinking Liberally Sioux Falls, appreciates the discussion you commenters generated from the South Dacola report on last Saturday’s South Dakota Democratic…
I spoke in error Sunday. I said that Governor Dennis Daugaard, who is asking President-Elect Donald Trump to protect the federal government’s support for ethanol and other…
The Obama Administration has issued some new pro-farmer, pro-free-market, anti-corporate rules. After years of resistance from Republicans and Big Food, the USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration issued three…