The real positive news from Game, Fish, & Parks is that our state parks are outperforming sales tax revenues and the general economy. The agenda…
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District 8’s legislators sound notably passive in the face of the dreary budget outlook offered by Governor Dennis Daugaard. Like the Governor, instead of offering…
Senate Minority Leader Billie Sutton (D-21/Burke), the Democrats’ standard-bearer in the 2018 gubernatorial race, joins the chorus of disappointment greeting Governor Dennis Daugaard’s bleak final…
South Dakota’s current budget faces a $33.7-million shortfall. Revenues are on track to come in $20.3 million lower than the Legislature expected when it wrote…
In his final budget address, Governor Dennis Daugaard showed he intends to go out with a whimper, not a bang. Faced with troublingly stagnant sales…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s budget address on Tuesday will tackle one thorny contributor to South Dakota’s lagging sales tax revenues—increased spending on health care: Twenty years…
Only a jerk as big as Donald Trump could make me say, “Thank goodness for our humanitarian Republican Congress!” But there they are, John Thune,…
I learn from a Bob Mercer tweet that Hutchinson County is thinking about replacing its 1881 courthouse (the oldest functioning courthouse in South Dakota). Built for…
Speaking of Tony Venhuizen, the Governor’s chief of staff tweeted this photo of possibly the funniest lieutenant governor in the United States and invites captions:…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is sounding the same cautious budgetary tone that he did last year, citing lower-than-expected sales tax revenues to lower expectations for his…