Tri-Valley school district superintendent Mike Lodmel thought it would be a good idea to offer home-school students free laptops if they would come and sit…
Tag: budget
In South Dakota, K-12 school districts receive state funding based on how many students are enrolled as of the end of September. The new teacher-based…
My subcomplaint about the new travel reimbursement for legislators spectating at interim committee hearings is that the subsidy was approved at last week’s Executive Board meeting…
Donald Trump thinks his threat to shut down the federal government if Congress won’t fund the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for to keep…
Also on the Legislative Executive Board’s agenda tomorrow is a report and FY2019 budget request from the South Dakota Investment Council, the folks who manage…
In good news (unless you’re a consistent Libertarian), South Dakota state government took in a little bit more money than expected in July. According to…
That’s unexpected: Attorney General Marty Jackley issued another ballot question explanation yesterday, this time for a revised version of the Voter Initiative Protection (VIP) Amendment.…
I mentioned last month that our Congressional delegation’s drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act (and in this week’s vote-a-rama, Senators John Thune and Mike…
It’s Blog One, Get Two Free! Here are three versions of the same story about South Dakota finishing Fiscal Year 2017 with a budget surplus…
A couple weeks ago, the Legislative Research Council issued a prison/jail fiscal impact statement for New Approach South Dakota’s recreational marijuana initiative. Using the surprising…