It’s been a rough couple weeks for Kristi Noem. She stuck her boot in South Dakota’s mouth with her unexpectedly (?!?) ridiculous and ridiculously expensive…
Tag: budget
The Legislative Research Council presented three issue memoranda to the Legislature’s Executive Board during its meeting yesterday. Among them was this review of federal handouts…
South Dakota still isn’t meeting its target teacher salary. In 2016, we raised our state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% with the goal of…
Rural schools don’t have enough money, GF&P hunting and fishing license revenues are down $1.4 million, farmers are barely getting by on Trump farm-welfare checks,…
The Walworth County Commission Follies continue. According to the Mobridge Tribune, the county budget for 2020 may be null and void due to the commission’s…
The Legislature is showing no mercy to Kristi Noem and Ben Jones. In apparent recognition of the Governor and her Education Secretary’s failure to drive…
We all knew Mike Rounds and the GOP were lying to us when they said their 2017 tax cuts for the rich would supercharge the…
On top of Revenue Secretary Jim Terwilliger’s fiscal pessimism, the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors heard retired USD economist Ralph Brown’s assessment Wednesday of the…
Never mind my suggestion of budget optimism at the bottom of my STAR Academy post yesterday; according to information presented at yesterday’s meeting of Governor…
Governor Kristi Noem sounds unhappy about repossessing the STAR Academy south of Custer. Not only will making good use of the property cost big bucks,…