In their ongoing commitment to deterring low-income students from seeking a college education and developing the critical thinking skills that would lead them to critique…
Tag: budget
Rosier budget projections have apparently fizzled; Majority Leader Lee Qualm is saying we may be back to stiffing teachers and state employees: Republicans who control…
Republicans in Pierre claim that collective bargaining limits the “flexibility” of our public universities. In a detailed fifteen-page letter to the Legislature an the Governor,…
The Bureau of Finance and Management offered what passes for optimism in Pierre last week, as it projected that the Legislature will have $19 million…
The challenge deadlines for both marijuana ballot measures have passed, so unless BIg Pharma or some other outfit is cooking up a lawsuit against the…
In other ballot question budgetary news, Marsy’s Law is costing us another $65,000. In its budget overview yesterday, the Bureau of Finance and Management told…
The Bureau of Finance and Management provided the Joint Appropriations Committee with an overview of the state budget yesterday. At 39:30 in the SDPB recording…
Governor Noem delivers her State of the State Address Tuesday… but it’s largely redundant. Didn’t she already spend $1.4 million to hire Minnesotans to tell…
Speaking of the budget and the Legislature’s legal obligation to increase teacher pay 2% in Fiscal Year 2021, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) tells the Aberdeen…
South Dakota’s general fund revenues continue to show more fiscal health than Governor Kristi Noem’s stingy and visionless budget proposal would lead us to believe.…