The comma chameleons of the “Americans First, Task Force” splash the new Aberdeen city budget on their Xenophobics Anonymous (if only they were seeking help…
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While I was campaigning today, a neighbor struggling with his Trump-excusification joked that “Democrats like free stuff.” Really? My neighbor’s preferred Presidential nominee says he will…
Governor Dennis Daugaard proudly announced another budget surplus last month, this time $14.1 million. He might need it for next year. According to projections provided by the…
Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson won’t be at the South Dakota Libertarian Convention here in Aberdeen Saturday afternoon, but he did at least give the Libertarians…
Dentist and District 8 Republican Rep. Leslie Heinemann thinks expanding Medicaid is too risky. Dentist Leslie Heinemann has apparently never experienced the risk of living without…
Speaking of the danger of trying to do health care on the cheap, South Dakota’s stinginess led to a dead teenager that the Human Services Center in Yankton…
The GOP spin machine is acting like Senator John Thune, Senator Mike Rounds, and Representative Kristi Noem achieved some great breakthrough by standing around in…
In today’s case of accounting whiplash, Southeast Technical Institute says it won’t need to resort to layoffs. Just three weeks ago, Southeast was saying a two-million-dollar deficit…
South Dakota has the third-lowest average number of students per school district in the U.S. According to 2014 data compiled by Mike Maciag of Governing (48 states and…
An statistically inclined reader analyzes the state’s numbers on the new K-12 funding package and produces this table and chart showing how the new target student-teacher ratios on which the…