I wasn’t just dreaming. Consistent with things his administration made when it rolled out the silly “We’re Not Mars” campaign, Governor Dennis Daugaard told the Pierre Chamber of…
Dakota Free Press
On its second try, the South Dakota House today approved House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s funding mechanism for increasing teacher pay. The vote was 47–21,…
In political baseball, Rep. Lee Schoenbeck’s support for the Blue Ribbon plan to raise South Dakota teacher pay has made him the new Stace Nelson of the Legislature:…
An Aberdeen teacher posed the following pertinent question to Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark), prime Senate sponsor of House Bill 1008, the paranoid potty bill that currently…
Aberdeen teacher Teresa Markley rose at Saturday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel to ask how Republican legislators could tell us for thirty years that there’s no money to boost teacher pay, then…
House Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) is at war with Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) over raising teacher pay. Rep. Schoenbeck has thrown in with the Governor and…
Sister Ruth Gereats took the mic at Saturday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel to ask where Medicaid expansion stands. Rep. Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) says he’s gotten conflicting reports on…