While South Dakota prepares to sock coronavirus relief dollars away in the bank to fund future parochial non-pandemic budget whims, the Biden Administration and the…
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Governor Kristi Noem has done a remarkable job of not spending federal coronavirus relief dollars on coronavirus relief. Now Representative Chris Karr, who came down…
Amidst the outbreak of freewheeling spending in our cash-flush Capitol, my favorite bill of the 2021 Session is House Bill 1278, wherein we declare that…
In 2018, Senator Jim Bolin tried to hamstring our power to write our own laws by placing on the ballot Amendment X, which would have…
On the first day of the 2021 Legislative Session, Joint Appropriations received a budget overview from the Bureau of Finance and Management. In that presentation,…
Legislators looking to join the Governor in trying monkeywrench the implementation of the will of the voters in South Dakota to legalize cannabis will have…
Dennis Kucinich cemented my conversion from slogan-swilling Republican to real-world, pragmatic Democrat with his long-standing argument that universal health care would save lives and save…
South Dakota continues to fall short of the statutory target teacher salary established in the big Daugaard reform of 2016. According to the Department of…
Governor Kristi Noem gets another year to sit on her federal coronavirus relief funds. Bob Mercer reports that the coronavirus relief/budget package that Congress passed…