Last year Governor Dennis Daugaard said he wanted a statewide review of tax increment financing. Last week, the Department of Revenue delivered a useful document…
Category: South Dakota
The ag-industrial lobbyists at the Farm Bureau are calling on their members to call Congress and get the Trump tariffs off their backs: Bureau President…
Democratic candidate for Attorney General Randy Seiler isn’t afraid to show his support of South Dakota’s LGBT community. He posts this photo of himself at…
The awful graph of the week comes from the Department of Revenue’s otherwise rock’em-sock’em first-of-its-kind statewide Tax Increment Financing Report. Check out this poorly proportioned…
I haven’t made a big deal about Russian meddling in our 2016 election. But Senator John Thune is: he flew all the way to Russia…
If you don’t have plans for Tuesday evening in Rapid City yet, go hear six smart people talk about “Truth in the News.” Democracy in…
In better pipeline news, the Grant County Commission revoked the legally dubious permission it granted CAFOs to run poop pipes through county rights of way:…
How’d all that oil get on the ground? TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline ruptured and spewed 9,700 barrels of oil* onto the South Dakota prairie just southeast…
Instead of talking about raising wages, South Dakota’s corporate-Republican leadership excuses low wages by alleging that it costs less to live here. I’ve regularly explained…
The Public Utilities Commission is following up on its promise to see that corporate tax cuts turn into utility bill breaks for South Dakotans. Bob…