With the Doomsday Clock at two minutes to midnight, the closest to the final bell since 1953, when the Soviets lit their first fusion-based bomb‚…
Month: December 2018
Who are South Dakota’s biggest employers? Hospitals, government, and grocers: One out of five of your neighbors works for one of our three big hospital…
Here’s another sign of that stagnant economy Kristi Noem with which she says Governor Dennis Daugaard is sandbagging her. The statistical section at the back…
Sales tax provides by far the single biggest chunk of South Dakota’s general fund revenues. In Fiscal Year 2018, the 4.5% we pay on our…
The Comprehensive Annual Finance Report for Fiscal Year 2018 reports that we spent over $119 million to cover all of our state employees’ health care…
If you care to take your investment cues from South Dakota state government, here are the foreign currencies South Dakota’s retirement and trust portfolios prefer:…
Governor Dennis Daugaard gets to tootle one more basic management achievement: publishing the state’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report before New Year’s Day for the third…
Shad Olson’s attempt to deny two legally elected Lakota women their seats in the Legislature and disenfranchise Native American voters in District 27 has taken…
I’ve been having so much fun shoveling that I forgot the New Year also brings the chance to shoot fireworks. SDCL 34-37-16.1 allows anyone in South…
Governor-Elect Kristi Noem says she wants Sioux Falls realtors’ exec and businesswoman Rhonda Milstead of Hartford to fill the District 9 House seat Deb Peters forsook…