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…
Tag: budget
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…
But hey, let’s not let little things like elected officials refusing to speak to the local media and killing people with their cars wear holes…
Meeting in Special Session yesterday, the Legislature rubber-stamped Governor Kristi Noem’s wildly misdirected and self-serving use of the remaining $597 million remaining in coronavirus relief…
The Joint Appropriations Committee has issued its recommendation for spending the remaining $597 million of South Dakota’s $1.25 billion in coronavirus relief funds from Uncle…
Here in District 3, the Democratic candidates for House understand that expanding Medicaid would be good for South Dakota: Both [Justin] Roemmick and [Leslie] McLaughlin…
Not all of South Dakota state government is sitting on its coronavirus relief funds to earn interest or burning them up on national TV campaign…