The 2016 sales tax for teacher pay deal was supposed to be a historic reform of K-12 school funding that would pull South Dakota teacher…
Month: December 2023
The best bill dumped into the hopper yesterday is House Bill 1030, in which the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources asks that we finally…
I guess vanity license plates aren’t enough for Kristi Noem’s narcissism. She has to have a vanity rodeo. And unlike vanity plate buyers, the Governor…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports 2,475,669 “encounters” at the U.S.–Mexico border from October 2022 through September 2023 (federal Fiscal Year 2023). The Border Patrol…
Taxpayers continue to lose money on the state’s persistent violations of the First Amendment. The State of South Dakota has to pay the lawyers who…
In further Republican hypocrisy, while the Republican Legislative leadership tries to undo the constitutional prohibition on legislators having financial interests in contracts the Legislature authorizes,…
The United Nations must think that petition circulating in South Dakota to put Roe v. Wade-era abortion rights in the state constitution is a good idea.…
While Republican Majority Leader Will Mortenson (R-24/Fort Pierre) is trying to expand the Capitol Complex Commission, the Department of Education is making some room for…
Among the first bills from the Governor is House Bill 1022, in which the Department of Education requests the $6 million in emergency funding to…
But how can Kristi Noem expect to have a chance of running-mating with Donald Trump when she so blatantly contradicts his messaging? For Christmas, South…