The Legislature’s interim Study Committee on County Funding and Services held its second meeting yesterday. A presentation on the money counties spend on healthcare prompted…
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Senators Elizabeth Warren and John Fetterman said no, but South Dakota’s dreadful duo of John Thune and Marion Michael Rounds said yes along with 61…
President Joe Biden spent the Memorial Day weekend securing a deal to raise the debt ceiling with radical Republicans who took the global economy hostage.…
The Sioux Falls school board is canceling gymnastics for lack of interest: Participation is what the school board says brought this conversation to the table.…
State Medicaid director Sarah Aker told the Board of Social Services Tuesday that the state is hiring 68 new staff to prepare for voter-approved Medicaid…
While she preens her budget-hawk feathers by rejecting $3 million for climate change planning, Governor Noem isn’t sending back any of the more than $10…
South Dakota has refused to apply for federal funding for climate-change study, planning, and mitigation, evidently because Governor Kristi Noem is afraid taking these federal…
The LRC hasn’t even posted the members or calendar of the interim county-funding study committee created last week by the Legislature’s Executive Board. But the…
Never mind nuclear power; the Legislative Executive Board has decided to direct legislators’ interim attention to ways to fund county governments and nursing homes. Rookie…
One little budget note: Governor Kristi Noem did sign Senate Bill 35, which immediately provides $13 million to help expand the Sanford Underground Research Facility under…