To distract us from everything that’s going wrong under Trump, Senator Mike Rounds is reviving one of his most laughable 2014 campaign lines. He’s once…
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Governor Kristi Noem should go easy on the Aberdeen legislators who are trying to block her grants for rural broadband. Those good Republicans are just…
An eager reader sends me a January article summarizing the Quality Counts report card on South Dakota’s K-12 education system. We start well, ranking 4th in…
All three House members from Aberdeen don’t want Governor Noem helping rural South Dakota get better broadband this year: Some legislators want the state attorney…
South Dakota state government can be generous when it wants to… and when it has extra federal money to spend. Thanks to Congress’s ignoring Donald Trump’s…
The batch of road and bridge bids that the state Transportation Commission accepted in the first half of April came in 7.64% above estimates. The…
The FY2018 state audit report that the Government Operations and Audit Committee will review at tomorrow’s meeting includes this schedule of expenditures of federal funds…
The Government Operations an Audit Committee meets Wednesday to review, among other matters, the Single Audit Report for Fiscal Year 2018. Bob Mercer reports that…
Governor Kristi Noem’s office has written $5.04 million worth of checks to 165 vendors since the Castlewood Carhaart Queen took charge in January. (Funny Ryan…