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…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard is not ready to pay for competitive teacher salaries yet, but he is ready to pay for lawyers. In the FY2017 budget proposal released…
Democrats may be annoyed by yet another miserly budget address from a governor who doesn’t fully put his money where his mouth is on vital public goods. But the…
In the right corner, weighing in with Heisenbergian uncertainty on the legal grounds for prosecuting fantasy sports gamblers, the Meade County Mauler, the Channette Choker, Attorney General…
Charlie Hoffman, pheasants, and I all like grasslands. The current South Dakota Legislature does not… or at least not enough to support the idea of taxing…
Bob Mercer joins many other South Dakotans in wishing that Governor Dennis Daugaard would use his budget address this afternoon to address corruption in state government. It seems…
The 35 Chinese investors suing the State of South Dakota and South Dakota’s EB-5 czar Joop Bollen for losing their EB-5 visa investments in Northern Beef…
At least Rep. Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) is trying. Unlike Governor Dennis Daugaard, who has yet to offer clear support for his own Blue Ribbon K-12…
Mitchell’s getting a new radio station for Christmas. KORN Country 92.1 begins broadcasting its new country format from a new tower and transmitter a mile east of…
Payday-loan shark Chuck Brennan was going to call his pawn shop radio station “Badlands Radio.” But now with his Badlands Pawn/tattoo parlor/gun range/Mad Max fantasy land classing up Russell…