As the Legislature underdelivers on the Blue Ribbon panel’s promise to pay all South Dakota teachers what they are worth, the Legislature also adds a new unfunded mandate and…
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Proving that its content is Lucky Charms and not eggs and sausage, USA Today chooses to feature South Dakota’s biggest non-story of the week, the alleged misrepresentation of…
The funding mechanism for Governor Dennis Daugaard’s teacher pay plan may have survived Legislative debate mostly intact, but the new K-12 funding formula that would apportion that money to…
Yesterday the House approved Senate Bill 72, South Dakota’s latest sex-hating, woman-hating, Constitution-hating abortion restriction. This time, we’re writing dubious “science” about fetal pain (see also here and here) into state law and…
Two weeks ago, 21 House members voted against providing $67 million in new state revenue to public schools via House Bill 1182: This morning, 20 of those…
In the face of six amendments targeting the Governor’s new K-12 funding formula, House Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) deferred Senate Bill 131 from yesterday to this morning…
The supporters of Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% interest rate cap on payday loans, often note that payday lenders charge South Dakotans 574% interest. IM 21…
Senate Bill 159, the stealth voucher bill, died and was reborn today. This morning I laid out four good reasons that SB 159, which would give…
Uh oh—looks like we Brown County Democrats had better play catch-up! The Brown County Republicans appear to be fielding a full slate for District 3…
Now we know why Senator Mike Rounds won’t condemn billionaire Klan-fave Donald Trump: it turns out Trump is trying to cash in on one of Mike Rounds’s…