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…
Tag: budget
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.…
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.