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…
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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…
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.…
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…