School Bus Inc. is starting drivers at $19.50 an hour and offering sign-on bonuses of up to $4,000 for qualified drivers. Even that pretty good pay…
Tag: budget
We don’t vote on Amendment C, née House Joint Resolution 5003, until next June, but evidently the big business and big political interests who hate…
Here’s what happens when you put Kristi Noem in charge of budgeting. Back in June, Governor Noem got one million dollars from Tennessee junk-car billionaire…
In further demonstration of the radical right’s loathing of decency and duty, the newly mugwump-captured Rapid City school board this week pulled the plug on…
A week and a half ago, Governor Kristi Noem told disgruntled state penitentiary workers that she can’t raise their pay with one-time money (“…salary policy has…
Following her meeting with State Penitentiary staff about their complaints about long overtime hours, low pay, and poor working conditions, Governor Kristi Noem took questions…
On Wednesday I worked up a conservative analysis that says federal coronavirus relief dollars from the 2020 CARES Act, 2021 American Rescue Plan, Paycheck Protection…
I keep thinking about that $85,875,130 surplus left over from South Dakota’s FY2021 budget. $23,863,600 of that was appropriated money that the state didn’t spend,…
Governor Kristi Noem says that the record 85.9-million-dollar budget surplus South Dakota incurred in Fiscal Year 2021 happened “Because of our respect for freedom and…
So the state fails to give State Penitentiary guards enough pay and support, and the Governor suspends the Warden and the Corrections Secretary? An anonymous…