Republican activist Jason Glodt shoehorned his way onto the agenda of the Jolene’s Law Task Force yesterday. Co-opting precious minutes away from a meeting dedicated mostly to…
Tag: budget
School reserve funds are among the tea leaves on the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s agenda this week. Just how much money have our school districts socked…
The Health Care Solutions Coalition meets this week Wednesday (1 p.m. at the Pierre Ramkota). Their mission: figure out if South Dakota can finally expand Medicaid under…
As I review the financial reports of the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative, I find two seeming anomalies. MCEC includes financial position statements in nearly all of the…
South Dakota’s fiscal disrespect for teaching evidently extends beyond K-12 into our Regental system. The Board of Regents considered a proposal “to set tuition at zero and…
Maybe we could fund Medicaid expansion by cutting the meeting budget for the state’s Health and Educational Facilities Authority. Bob Mercer reports that the HEFA board spent $5,858…
Hey, executive-order hawks! Care to shout at Governor Dennis Daugaard a bit this morning? While browsing the Governor’s recent executive orders, I found that on June 12,…
Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds and Representative Kristi Noem voted not to shut down the government yesterday. The good news is that it looks like…
Think Rick Knobe’s nuts for proposing a state income tax to raise teacher pay? Think again. A new report suggests that a state income tax…