Certain oil and gas boosters want South Dakota to believe, against most evidence, that expanding oil exploration would bring us the milk and honey of the…
Tag: budget
Convinced that there’s too much testing in public education, the Minnesota Legislature this year cut its state Department of Education’s testing budget from $42 million to…
The South Dakota Dashboard reminds legislators that Pierre really is responsible for South Dakota’s lowest-in-the-nation teacher salaries. Processing Census data for FY 2013, the Dashboard reports that South Dakota’s K-12 per-pupil spending…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) isn’t heeding the Governor’s admonition to shush until the Governor’s Blue Ribbon K-12 panel issues its policy proposals. Rep. Schoenbeck offers his…
“In South Dakota, we don’t spend money we don’t have,” says Governor Dennis Daugaard, celebrating South Dakota’s third-best fiscal solvency. We don’t spend money we…
The Legislative Research Council has produced the fiscal impact statements required for Consistent South Dakota’s ballot initiatives to outlaw the transfer of tobacco and alcoholic…
An eager reader paging through state government documents (because that’s what Dakota Free Press readers do!) notices this flowchart showing who got the $8.9 million in gaming…
Governing‘s number cruncher Mike Maciag directs my attention (and, I hope, yours) to the National Association of State Budget Officers’ new Spring 2015 Fiscal Survey of the States. Numbers…
Yesterday I proposed a grand bargain to give Governor Daugaard a one-year suspension of continuing contract in return for raising the average South Dakota teacher salary to 13th in…