The Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce must expect all of the action in the 2016 Legislature to happen in the last third of the Session. The Chamber’s Governmental Affairs…
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In today’s Oopsie! file, former state legislator Ryan Maher has been having a little trouble keeping between the ditches. From this week’s Timber Lake Topic:…
Shannon Marvel has a new (paywalled) article online for the Aberdeen American News (sure to hit Friday’s print edition) about the staff shortage at the South Dakota…
Bob Mercer reports that Governor Dennis Daugaard has named Scott Herman to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Stacy Phelps last fall. One Todd County…
We’re two steps toward the Rick Weiland trifecta! Yesterday Secretary of State Shantel Krebs certified the Anti-Corruption Act initiative petition. Secretary Krebs calculates that 18,122 out of…
Former Senator Stan Adelstein is holding a press conference this morning in Rapid City to propose his own plan for funding the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s…
Thirty more bills dropped into the Legislative hopper today (House leads Senate on prefiled bills, 24 to 23). Brought by Rep. Don Haggar (R-10/Sioux Falls) on…
The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission decided to let TransCanada gamble on a Big Oil Republican winning the White House this year. The PUC voted unanimously…
Mike Maciag of Governing posts this really instructive chart on the share of state revenues borne by individuals and corporations paying state income taxes: Back in 1950,…
Just like South Dakota, North Dakota has a teacher shortage. Just like South Dakota, North Dakota convened a task force to tackle the problem last summer.…