District 3 legislators are having a hard time with transparency this Session. Not only are Senator Al Novstrup, Representative Drew Dennert, and rookie Representative Carl…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard was inauguarated on January 8, 2011. In his State of the State Address three days later, Governor Daugaard deemed the 127-million-dollar structural…
I learn from Axios (via The Displaced Plainsman) that South Dakota is among the ten states with the highest percentage of its workforce affected by the…
Chief Justice David Gilbertson’s State of the Judiciary Address detoured to a State of the Fiduciary, as he said South Dakota has more money deposited…
Sales tax provides by far the single biggest chunk of South Dakota’s general fund revenues. In Fiscal Year 2018, the 4.5% we pay on our…
The Comprehensive Annual Finance Report for Fiscal Year 2018 reports that we spent over $119 million to cover all of our state employees’ health care…
Governor Dennis Daugaard gets to tootle one more basic management achievement: publishing the state’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report before New Year’s Day for the third…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) gets some space at the bottom of a budget article to talk about the $15.7 million in unspent appropriations Governor Daugaard…
Senator Marion Michael Rounds started his weekend by lying to his constituents about the Trump tax cuts. “Federal revenue is rising due to increased economic…
The Legislative Research Council reported that, as of the end of October, South Dakota was up $5.98 million in revenue collections compared to what the…