As we wait for Senate Majority Leader John Thune to follow through on his promise to hold a vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies,…
Author: Cory Allen Heidelberger
Back in 2021, the Legislature appropriated $5 million to buy frequent luxury flyer Kristi Noem a new-to-us turboprop plane. Now Governor Larry Rhoden is jumping…
Governor Larry Rhoden continues his predecessor Kristi Noem’s tradition of keeping South Dakota dependent on the federal government. Rhoden’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2027…
Governor Larry Rhoden noted in his budget address yesterday that Medicaid has now overtaken K-12 as a share of the state general fund. But don’t…
Governor Larry Rhoden’s proposed budget assumes the state will take in 2.4% more revenue in Fiscal Year 2027 than it is on track to take…
Secretary of State Monae Johnson has issued her updated monthly count of registered voters in South Dakota. Secretary Johnson apparently continued her fall purge of…
Mark reads my post on the Secretary of State’s Proposal #14, changing the basis for calcualting signature requirements for candidate petitions, asks me what I…
Speaking of GDP, I glanced at this chart from the St. Louis Fed showing South Dakota’s annual gross domestic product from 1997 through 2024: Notice…
At the Watertown Chamber’s Farm Business Banquet November 20, Governor Larry Rhoden felt the need to repeat the agriganda that agriculture is South Dakota’s number…
The illegal Department of Government efficiency, which dropped below the radar when King Don and Jester Elon fell out last spring, has been dissolved early:…