Rick Weiland spoke to the Brown County Democratic Forum this noon about the ballot measures his organization, TakeItBack.org, is promoting. If these three initiatives make the ballot (still…
Category: South Dakota
KELO-TV and everyone else is reporting that Sioux Falls police arrested Darren Kyle Zafft, age 29, and Jennifer Marie Cash, age 35, yesterday on “multiple…
Governing looks at Census data on county industry reliance and population changes and finds some correlations that indicate challenges for economic growth in South Dakota. Counties relying heavily on retirement…
With the possibility that laggardly South Dakota may finally expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, let’s take a moment to consider Medicaid fraud. The people South Dakota…
Muslim terrorists (I’d add the adjective radical, but isn’t that redundant with terrorist?) killed 130 people and wounded 358 in Paris on November 13. Muslim terrorists killed…
It bothers me that some people who can work will become more dependent on government…. I hate that. I hate dependency. —Governor Dennis Daugaard, FY2017 budget…
Only 15.5% of Mitchell’s electorate voted yesterday in favor of building an $8-million indoor pool. But since only 28.5% of Mitchell’s electorate came to the polls, that was enough…
Rick Weiland is coming to town! The Brown County Democratic Forum will have Weiland over for lunch on Friday, December 11, at Pizza Ranch in Aberdeen.…
The FY2017 budget proposed yesterday by Governor Dennis Daugaard includes $989,613,013 (you could round that to one billion) in “tax expenditures,” also known as tax breaks. Tax…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s proposed FY2017 budget does not mention the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s recommendation to allocate at least $75 million to raise teacher pay. The…