Shall we thank Donald Trump for proving that deficit spending doesn’t hurt the economy? Through August 2016, the FY2016 deficit was $619 billion. Through August…
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The State of South Dakota is so rich— How rich is it? —the State of South Dakota is so rich that, if we all stopped…
If you looked at the Chronicle of Higher Education tables I cited in my previous post, you know this fiscal policy post is coming! The state of…
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…
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…