My post last week attempting to explain the new Blue Ribbon K-12 funding formula proposed by Governor Daugaard in Senate Bill 131 drew plenty fire from folks…
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The City of Aberdeen wants us all to be civilized in its public spaces… or else! The city has adopted a patron conduct policy that…
I could have told Rep. Jim Stalzer (R-11/Sioux Falls) that he didn’t need the long weekend to read Rep. Jeff Partridge’s (R-34/Rapid City) proposed Internet sales…
The Mid-Central Educational Cooperative included discussion of House Bill 1182, the Governor’s sales tax increase for teacher pay, on its regular meeting agenda yesterday. Among the…
Rep. Jim Stalzer (R-11/Sioux Falls) is feeling the heat for leading the Republican stalling of the Governor’s sales tax plan to fund teacher pay increases. After…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative appears to be cleaning house. Executive director Dan Guericke, who hasn’t made any substantive public statement since shortly after the Westerhuis murder-arson-suicide launched the GEAR UP…
The Lack of Legislative Leadership Award for the day goes to Senator Deb Soholt (R-14/Sioux Falls). As chair of Senate Education, she cast the deciding vote this…
On one important issue, Rep. Scott Craig (R-33/Rapid City) chose decency and good sense over politically motivated fear-mongering. The Rapid City Republican had introduced House Bill 1158,…
I am officially reaching the old-man stage. When I turn on pop radio, the new “songs” they play to get kids to buy stuff sound like angry,…
Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) launched a slightly more subtle attack on House Bill 1182 this afternoon. Before the Stalzer Stall, but right after his…