According to the Smart on Crime Work Group report presented to the Governor last drug arrests rose 20% in 2015 and methamphetamine-related arrests rose 40%. To put the rise…
Category: South Dakota
Sioux Falls mayor Mike Huether called a press conference this afternoon to announce that he is leaving the Democratic Party and registering independent. According to reporter…
Senator John Thune played David Novstrup on national TV yesterday, pretending that taking things away from workers is good for them. Asked by Fox’s Maria Martiromo…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s FY2018 budget proposes spending $290K more of state money on the Department of Education, even as it takes a nick on federal and…
Tucked into pages 24 and 44 of Governor Daugaard’s FY2018 budget summary book is the state price tag for Amendment S, the somewhat redundant crime victims bill of…
In 2013, South Dakota state government introduced pay for performance for “career banded” state employees—accountants/auditors, information technologists, nurses, environmental scientists, and engineers. Each year, state employees…
Human Rights Watch came to Sioux Falls a couple weeks ago to release a report showing the discrimination that LGBT youth face in South Dakota and other states.…
Chew over these budget numbers: The Governor’s budget proposal projects sales and use tax revenue in Fiscal Year 2018 of $1.013 billion. That revenue projection is…
The United States is on track to see over 700 million domestic enplanements in 2016. For the first time, over one million of those flyers will…
A coalition of activist groups, including Democracy Spring, Americans Take Action, the Electoral College Petition, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, is attempting to stage…