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…
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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…
Evidently realizing his pretense of “negotiating” by shouting radical demands after the real negotiators in Congress have sealed their deal, Donald Trump yesterday signed the…
Seeing his throne and relevance slipping away, Donald Trump is now trying to reclaim some popular support the same way he held onto farmers’ backing—by…
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…
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…