Before they got to complaining about how the Governor’s taxpayer-funded self-promotion has not eased the workforce shortage, the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors got to…
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South Dakota is celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month by standing alone in forgoing millions of dollars in federal grants available to bolster cybersecurity. Just last month,…
House Democrats yesterday delayed the vote on Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s surprise shutdown-averting stopgap spending bill to read it and make sure the Speaker hadn’t snuck…
Hey hey! The United States federal government continues to function, at least for 48 more days. Yesterday Speaker Kevin McCarthy reversed himself, agreed with the…
Representative Dusty Johnson retains some shreds of sanity amidst the warped anarcho-authoritarianism of the Trump Party that seeks to destroy existing civil institutions so they…
The state plans to abandon a great office complex right in the middle of Sioux Falls, near lots of low-income folks who benefit greatly from…
Last winter, South Dakota state government refused to apply for millions in federal funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 to help…
Another sign that South Dakota’s budgetary dysfunction is the increasing gap between the target teacher salary that the great 2016 sales increase was supposed to…
For the fourth year in a row, Kristi Noem has taxed South Dakotans too much: Today, Governor Kristi Noem announced that South Dakota closed the…
The Legislature’s interim Study Committee on County Funding and Services held its second meeting yesterday. A presentation on the money counties spend on healthcare prompted…