January, February, March—for three straight months, South Dakota state government has taken in less money than it needs to cover its Fiscal Year 2019 budget.…
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From the fervid imagination of Rep. Tim Goodwin—phantom teachers! Senator Lance Russell said it best when he identified the school aid formula as a “reverse…
Governor Kristi Noem had to play games with her measly million dollars for pheasant habitat just to keep from breaking her first budget. How does…
Behind its paywall, my local paper oddly opines that there are correct and incorrect attitudes about the demise of horseracing in South Dakota: Fort Pierre…
The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association reports that South Dakota is one of 32 states that are investing less per student now on higher…
Last year, on March 23, Donald Trump signed into law a measure sending $3,000,000 in new Help America Vote Act (HAVA) funding to South Dakota…
South Dakota isn’t ready for hemp, Governor Kristi Noem said in her illogical, still inexplicable justifications for vetoing of two industrial hemp bills this month. Funny…
To beat the impending blizzard, the Legislature convened just after midnight, passed a 4.9-billion-dollar budget that most of them had not read, and adjourned at 3…
Donald Trump continues to treat rural America the way he treated Ivana and Marla, taking them as trophy wives, then getting distracted and dumping them.…
Among the bills on the Senate’s Crossover Day agenda is Senate Bill 179, which sets the maximum tax levies for school boards and the target…