Commander in Chief? Heck, Donald Trump can’t even organize a military parade, let alone a full-blown military operation: President Donald Trump announced Friday that he…
Tag: budget
The first monthly revenue report of Fiscal Year 2019 suggests our tax revenues are again outperforming our Legislature’s conservative estimates. We bought more stuff in…
Independent blogger John Tsitrian smartly ties the ACLU’s Smart Justice campaign against mass incarceration to Democratic Congressional candidate Tim Bjorkman’s profoundly useful position paper on the…
At the public policy forum I hosted here in Aberdeen last night, one of the Kessler’s Morning Coffee Think Tank members in attendance asked me…
Eureka school district voters rejected a $300,000 property tax opt-out in June. That vote didn’t make their school’s looming deficit go away. But the locals…
New Board of Regents exec Paul Beran sounds like he’s ready to acquiesce to our cheapskate Legislature and keep the burden for funding higher ed…
Agropur plans to pump two million gallons of its cheese-plant wastewater into the Big Sioux River. The main health concern from that water is its…
Special Session! Special Session! Chief of staff Tony Venhuizen is telling the press that his boss, Governor Dennis Daugaard, is considering convening the Legislature to…
The Government Operations and Audit Committee meets tomorrow in Pierre. Among the agenda items is a conversation with the South Dakota High School Activities Association…
Governor Dennis Daugaard successfully outperforms my budget projection from a week ago and announces that South Dakota underbudgeted K-12 education by $16.9 million: State agencies demonstrated…