The Whitetail Fire in Custer State Park this month is one tiny flare-up in a long-term increase in wildfire driven by climate change. The Trump budget…
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Hey, Watertown! Read Trump’s budget: Eliminates funding for the Essential Air Service (EAS) program, which was originally conceived of as a temporary program nearly 40 years…
“This is the America First budget,” says White House Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney of the budget blueprint just released by our ill Duce.…
South Dakota to Spend 0.73% Less in FY2018… and Some Education Funding Notes! Senator Stace Nelson is already cranky about the state budget. This fun…
Senator Stace Nelson tells WNAX he’s unhappy about the state budget passed on Friday. We should not be surprised: Stace Nelson has voted Nay on…
Next year’s funding for teacher pay, state employee raises, and other items remains in limbo on the last regular day of the Legislative Session (while legislators have spent…
The Legislature won’t give teachers any more money, but it won’t take any more money from retailers. The House yesterday shot down House Appropriations chief…
House Appropriations chair Representative David Anderson grabbed Senate Bill 106 this morning and stuffed that last empty carcass bill with a tax increase. Now the Republicans who…
While South Dakota struggles to hold its head above budgetary water, while we wonder if our K-12 schools will get even the meager 1% boost Governor Daugaard…
Your economic puzzle for the day comes from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which finds that, in the third quarter of 2016, South Dakota had…