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…
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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.…
Governor Kristi Noem’s New Year’s Resolutions apparently include bringing flip-flops to work. After letting the Legislature re-assign the State of the Tribes Address from her…
Seth Tupper gets the bills for Governor Kristi Noem’s first South Dakota Leads Conference, held December 9 in Sioux Falls. The state spent $40,480 to…
Gregory County cartoonist Jo Johnson sends holiday greetings, who is stuffing those stockings by the chimney with the utmost of care: Ho ho ho.
Contrary to the CYA-whining from do-nothing Senator Mike Rounds, Democrats in Congress are showing they can legislate and impeach at the same time. Even as…
The report on November general fund receipts from the Legislative Research Council shows that a timing glitch in insurance company tax and a pleasant imbalance…
Remember how back in September the state Board of Economic Development rejected Triple H Wind Farm’s request for a sales tax kickback? Just kidding—Merry Christmas!…
Governor Kristi Noem is trying to sound like a moderate, saying she’s open to legalizing industrial hemp if it’s done right. But don’t be fooled;…
Northwestern Area school superintendent Ryan Bruns is showing South Dakota educators how to properly respond to Governor Kristi Noem’s illegal betrayal of the sales-tax-for-teacher-pay promise…