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.…
Dakota Free Press Posts
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…
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…
In the philosophical distractions department, a good friend of the blog is reading A Manual for Creating Atheists by Portland State University professor Dr. Peter Boghossian.…