“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…
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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…
The cosmos is off kilter when the most instructive and interesting reportage on the Rapid City meeting of Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students (BluRTFTS)…
Uh oh—I’m going to have to get cranky with my anti-Common Core friends for trying to crash the Blue Ribbon party. South Dakotans Against Common…
The Daugaard Administration is consolidating five regional emergency management offices down to three. The state Office of Emergency Management will close offices in Sioux Falls and Pierre…
Tom Black occasionally hosts what he calls the Aberdeen City Council Observer on Facebook. He’s working through a series of questions with incumbent SE district candidate Laure…