While we slept, Rep. Kristi Noem voted to reject the Senate’s deficit-boosting two-year spending plan and shut the government down again. So did 66 Republicans…
Tag: budget
Two years after the Legislature took away an option that cushioned school revenues from a sudden loss of students, a few hardy legislators want to…
Score one for the South Dakota Democratic Party. Their attack on Marty Jackley’s touring the state to campaign on office time may have fallen flat…
We all know Governor Daugaard and the rest of the state’s leaders are hoping to save our budget by persuading the Supreme Court to reverse…
Seth Tupper does the homework on the Jackley travel budget question and finds the Democrats and Kristi Noem are probably wrong to imply that Marty…
Our discussion of all the taxpayer dollars our legislators spend to travel out of state leads to an obvious question: why would legislators charge us…
Kristi Noem is campaigning like a Democrat. You’ll recall that on Sunday, I reported on the record-high travel expenses the Attorney General’s office incurred in…
The Attorney General’s office apparently put more miles on their cars in Fiscal Year 2017. According to documents reviewed by the Government Operations and Audit…
Apparently one way the Daugaard Administration hopes to save money is by making it cheaper to pay its bills late. House Bill 1050, requested by…
Marty Jackley campaigned for governor in Aberdeen this morning. Addressing about three dozen area residents and a handful of local press, Jackley spent about thirteen…