I wholeheartedly support Speaker Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls) in his bid to reassert the Legislature’s coequal status in South Dakota government by calling for a…
Tag: budget
South Dakota’s state revenues are looking better than you’d expect during a puzzling pandemic recession managed by incompetent fascists. Brown County is also managing to…
So that’s why Kyle got a raise…. In a victory for Governor Kristi Noem’s blind optimism, South Dakota’s tax revenues in July exceeded revenues from…
Mayor Paul TenHaken’s big government spending proceeds undimmed amidst the pandemic recession. Evidently banking on coronavirus relief dollars and the Biden recovery to reverse declining…
I noted Friday that Governor Noem has burned up $3.5 million in federal coronavirus relief on our Department of Tourism, which I guarantee is not…
Bob Mercer reports that both Joint Appropriations and the Government Operations and Audit Committee are trying to keep an eye on how Governor Kristi Noem…
Governor Kristi Noem announced her second straight $19-million surplus yesterday: $19.1 million left over this year, $19.4 million left over last year. Both years under…
The steady stream of complete baloney from Pierre includes a claim that the lighting fireworks over the Trump hate rally at Mount Rushmore last Friday…
The Legislative Research Council this week issued the best monthly state revenue report I’ve ever read. I superlativize not because the numbers are particularly good—South…
Yankton chose to cancel its fireworks rather than risk crowds in a two-mile area spreading coronavirus. Yankton has also canceled Riverboat Days in August and…