Back in March, when only one person in South Dakota and 5,300 Americans had died of coronavirus, Congress roared into action, providing well over $2 trillion…
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Last week Governor Kristi Noem told the South Dakota Legislature that we have $224 million in one-time money to spend during this fiscal year. That…
The Associated School Boards of South Dakota held their first online Delegate Assembly last month (online! thank you, boards, for doing your part to prevent…
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…
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…