As we learned in October, State Fair attendance was down by 47% this year due to around 97,000 fairgoers who turned fair-noers and exercised the…
Tag: budget
Governor Kristi Noem used her budget address yesterday in Pierre as another platform for her campaign to replace to Joe Biden in 2024. She capped…
Governor Kristi Noem’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2022 has a lot to analyze. But let’s start with the slide she tucked into the bottom…
The Bureau of Finance and Management warned legislators last summer that the coronavirus pandemic could cause South Dakota to see up to a $40-million budget…
Boy, if Republicans think South Dakota’s single-subject rule is so peachy, maybe they should explain it to Donald Trump, who is threatening to defund the…
Not every Republican is sitting around sulking or lying or needlessly attacking the press. Congressman Dusty Johnson, recognizing that we are in the midst of…
The 5.8% statutory pay raise legislators will get in 2021 (that’s $688.40 more for each legislator, to $12,580.80 for the nine-week Session, only one week…
With Donald Trump and Kristi Noem waging a destructive constant war with unpleasant reality, it’s refreshing just to read issue memos from the Legislative Research…
$6 million could hire 120 more teachers to help ease the strain on our overworked teachers amidst the pandemic. Instead, Governor Kristi Noem is spending…
The state is pretending that spending $1.5 million to stage fireworks at Mount Rushmore for Il Duce and the Snow Queen’s vanity was a great…