The United States Supreme Court has partially lifted lower court injunctions against Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim travel ban and agreed to hear in October the Executive Branch’s…
Month: June 2017
Speaking of affordable housing, the National Low Income Housing Coalition finds that South Dakota has the third most affordable rent in the country. Defining “affordable” as…
A tax increment finance (TIF) district is supposed to be a neighborhood that the city council declares economically depressed and in need of subsidized property…
Governing breaks down the U.S. population by “generation” and state. Here are the percentages in South Dakota and our neighboring states, compared to the national…
The only good thing Governor Dennis Daugaard seems to have said so far about the Republican Senate wealthcare bill is that it “might be the…
Hey, county commissioners! You’d better call Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds and tell them not to break your budgets with their health care bill:…
Leaders Engaged and Determined (LEAD) is hosting a legislative panel Tuesday, June 27, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Oak View branch of the…
KELO-TV mistags a story on youth employment. “Teen Summer Jobs Are Vanishing,” KELO writes over five sentences excerpted from a much more detailed AP story,…
Representative Kyle Schoenfish (R-19/Scotland) posted a Legislative update of sorts in the Yankton Press & Dakotan this week. As writing, it stinks, but hey, at…
San Francisco decided in March to stop spending tax dollars on city employee travel to South Dakota in response to our anti-LGBT discriminatory adoption law (Senate…