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…
Tag: budget
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…
Some legislators wanted to spend the summer studying the fiscal and economic impact of refugees and immigrants in general to South Dakota. The Legislative Executive…
The only good thing Governor Dennis Daugaard seems to have said so far about the Republican Senate wealthcare bill is that it “might be the…
Hey, county commissioners! You’d better call Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds and tell them not to break your budgets with their health care bill:…
Donald Trump doesn’t want to give poor people health insurance or food. The White House 2018 budget would cut $193 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition…
A couple weeks ago I pointed out sizable cuts that Donald Trump would make to USDA Rural Development programs. Those cuts would cost South Dakota…
Last April, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) said he wants the new Board of Technical Education to advocate for $9 million in new state…
Every candidate running for Governor and for South Dakota’s lone House seat should be ready to answer this question: How will you protect South Dakota from Donald…