Last month, hysterical right-wing governors went on a states’ rights tear, arguing that they could ban Syrian refugees from their states. South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard only…
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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…
As Senator Bernie Sanders will tell you, the Republican war on the middle class is bad for democracy and for capitalism. But could the GOP’s class warfare have…
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…
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…