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…
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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…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s FY2018 budget proposes spending $290K more of state money on the Department of Education, even as it takes a nick on federal and…
Tucked into pages 24 and 44 of Governor Daugaard’s FY2018 budget summary book is the state price tag for Amendment S, the somewhat redundant crime victims bill of…
In 2013, South Dakota state government introduced pay for performance for “career banded” state employees—accountants/auditors, information technologists, nurses, environmental scientists, and engineers. Each year, state employees…
Chew over these budget numbers: The Governor’s budget proposal projects sales and use tax revenue in Fiscal Year 2018 of $1.013 billion. That revenue projection is…
I feel like Governor Daugaard is using IM22 the way Donald Trump uses Twitter: to distract us from his policy failures. Trump flunks foreign policy by tweaking…