After a year of increasing government, the Noem Administration is finally taking a teeny-tiny step toward Kristi Noem’s campaign promise to check government bloat. On…
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In proposing zero increase in the target teacher salary that determines K-12 funding, Governor Kristi Noem is ignoring state law. The Governor is proposing $8.9…
I didn’t hear anything about that “Next Big Thing” Kristi Noem said she’d be looking for, but the Governor’s first regular budget address did include…
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…
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…