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…
Tag: budget
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…
Profs at the School of Mines are worried that renovation of McLaury Hall means they’ll lose their chalkboards: “Everybody’s really concerned that they’re going to come…
Three months ago, Governor Dennis Daugaard said the state revenue outlook wasn’t great. Today, his Bureau of Finance and Management tells us the revenue outlook is worse…
A friend of mine expresses her love for President Trump by throwing all sorts of anti-Obama, anti-Clinton, anti-liberal memes—many debunkable in seconds—at me on Facebook. Ever…
In the opening salvo of the fact-free Presidency, Donald Trump said to his fellow Americans and the people of the world that America’s schools are “flush with cash…
In August 2016, the Department of Legislative Audit presented a report titled “Other Fund Information by Agency” to the Government Audit and Operations Committee. Pages 9–12 list 239 state…
Outgoing Codington County Commissioner Elmer Brinkman reflects on how increasing his local government workforce decreased costs: When Brinkman first started, the commissioners met at 10 a.m. each…
The Legislative Research Council updated its revenue report last week to show how we’re doing on general fund receipts through November. Due mostly to lagging sales…
As I suffer Bob Mercer withdrawal, I review the Pierre reporter’s December 8th Tweets and notice this pointed observation of the Koch Brothers’ hypocrisy: To review: Koch Brothers’ propaganda…