The Department of Labor and Regulation released results of its latest Employee Benefits Survey yesterday. Among other highlights, 50% of firms responding to the survey…
Category: South Dakota
I received a letter “Mailed from a South Dakota Correctional Facility” a few days ago. Two small pieces of tape held the envelope shut; the…
Senate Bill 43 is the Board of Regents’ proposal to fund the collaborative rural veterinary medicine program South Dakota State University and the University of Minnesota…
The South Dakota Legislature needs a shorter oath of office. To take office, legislators are led ploddingly, sometimes one word at a time, through 131…
Chief Justice David Gilbertson’s State of the Judiciary Address detoured to a State of the Fiduciary, as he said South Dakota has more money deposited…
Senator Red Dawn Foster (D-27/Pine Ridge) cast her vote in the Capitol yesterday; rather inauspiciously, she joined the unanimous crowd in electing career Senator Brock…
The Department of Revenue apparently wants to give up one potential source of revenue. Its House Bill 1017 asks the Legislature to repeal Revenue’s authority…
Our new Attorney General may be a bigger idiot than Donald Trump, but at least we have the American Civil Liberties Union to talk sense…
Do you think welfare should include work requirements? Then go talk to Tru Shrimp. The Balaton, Minnesota, company got $2.6 million in government assistance and…
Governor Kristi Noem addressed the South Dakota Legislature this afternoon. Several of her words deserve highlighting. (All quotes come from the transcript Governor Noem provided…