I have three posts so far analyzing different aspects of Governor Kristi Noem’s proposed budget for Fiscal year 2022 (including her bid for a new campaign state plane!); I suspect I have many more to come.
Maybe the SDGOP spin blog has more to come, too. I’d settle for anything to come.blog Brookings blogger and GOP mouthpiece Pat Powers is sponsored by Noem, so you’d expect to see lots of cheery posts about the Snow Queen’s fiscal wisdom. But as of Wednesday breakfast, Powers has nothing on Noem’s Tuesday speech, just another press release from Washington. Powers hasn’t written anything original since December 1.
But that’s why you read Dakota Free Press. Every day, I strive to give you not just press releases and blockquotes—though I will always give you great helpings of sources and links for more reading—but original analysis and commentary.
Support South Dakota’s best independent journalism: donate to Dakota Free Press via PayPal
And that’s why you support Dakota Free Press with your cash contributions: because Dakota Free Press gives you original articles about South Dakota (and a few other things) worth reading.
I don’t get rich from the blog, and never will. I blog for love of South Dakota. I do it for the joy of learning, writing, and occasionally making you laugh.
But your contributions do pay the server bills (thousands of hits a day require more server capacity!), help me invest in computer gear and blog travel, and cover the occasional nice dinner out (since March, take-out brought safely in) for my family.
Dakota Free Press is free for everyone to read, because I believe everyone should read it.
If you like what you’re reading here, keep reading. I’m grateful for your attention, one of the rarest commodities in the modern economy. If you find what you read here worth even just a few dollars along with your few minutes, click that Blog Tip Jar above and in the right sidebar. Thank you for your support!
Cory, you do an outstanding job on an outstanding blog. It has always been my pleasure to support this very worthwhile voice in the South Dakota wilderness. Hope you and your family have a great and safe holiday season.
Likewise, Jerry! a few extra !0 or 20 $$ flow from this oldster’s marginal retirement $ go to a well-deserved form of media that I really appreciate and savor reading. Thanks for what you do, our friend Cory, and please know you are appreciated. Mainstream media never covers like you do. Thanks.
Corey did a wonderful job cross-posting 2 outstanding budget articles from the South Dakota Standard.
Recent state senator Susan Wismer shares her scathing initial review of noem’s feeble budget proposal.
https://www.sdstandardnow.com/home/former-legislator-susan-wismer-says-gov-noems-budget-shows-sd-has-finessed-the-art-of-mooching-off-the-federal-government
In the second John Tsitrian suggests noem put on her ‘positive pants’ when looking the future state budget through the lens of the increasing ag futures since Biden’s election. One could also add that Biden’s choice of former 2-term Iowa Governor and 8-year USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsack, as Biden’s Ag Secretary will also improve rural America — far better than a Georgian Ag Sec and — far better than did the trumpian tariffs and over-the-top ag producer bribes (er, payments to off-set the mis-guided trumpian tariffs).
https://www.sdstandardnow.com/home/noem-expects-a-rough-road-under-biden-funny-ag-futures-seem-to-think-otherwise-has-the-gov-checked-the-soybean-and-corn-markets-lately
No blog is an island, John. We provide a fuller, richer picture of South Dakota when we point to all the original, independent voices (not the partisan hacks like Pat, but the real writers and scholars of contemporary South Dakota) to help everyone find more interesting, useful writing about our home and how to make it better.
Jerry, Jake, thank you both for your friendship and support. It’s a pleasure to do this work, it’s a pleasure to meet good neighbors through this work, and it’s a pleasure to know I make at least some of my neighbors’ lives better by writing.
Cory, I’d Like to donate but with a check. Please send me an address to send it to.
Jean Farlee
I had an address once but misplaced it.