Joint Appropriations gets together today in Pierre in Capitol Room 362 to discuss our faltering revenues. After lunch, they’ll discuss the appropriational ins and outs…
Tag: budget
The Bureau of Finance and Management has posted the disappointing sales tax revenue data for which Governor Kristi Noem was bracing us last week. In…
Senator Mike Rounds is even worse at taking responsibility for bad policy outcomes than Governor Kristi Noem. Check out how he talks to KELO Radio…
Governor Kristi Noem is bracing us for a weak fiscal report for Fiscal Year 2019. Governor Noem says we should expect to see less state sales tax…
Senator Marion Michael Rounds thinks we can make America greater by getting rid of the federal Department of Education. We could save far more money—and…
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…
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…