Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) dropped by the Dakota Free Press comment section yesterday to ask some reasonable questions about teacher pay, opt-outs, and South Dakota voters’…
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WalletHub ranks the states for dependence on federal government funding and jobs. In our region, Minnesota and Nebraska are the least dependent on Uncle Sam,…
Dr. Tim Mitchell superintends a school district with a student body the size of the entire town of Pierre and a staff (teachers, sweepers, everybody) the…
Remember that Farm Bill Congresswoman Kristi Noem always brags about? It was far more than a day late… and now we learn it may run…
What do you get from a Republican Congress? Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and not even the courage to call these cuts cuts: House Republicans called…
Senator Bernie Hunhoff still sees progress being made toward expanding Medicaid, but he says the biggest disappointment of the 2015 Legislative Session is his colleagues’ continued…
Michael Larson properly spotlights the mediocrity epitomized on Senate Majority Leader Tim Rave’s closing comments in the Senate’s debate of HB 1208, the general appropriations bill, passed late…
A new Rockefeller/Pew report finds that states are having a harder time getting their revenue projections right: The last three recessions have boggled state revenue predictions, as have…
I was ready to give my Representative Dan Kaiser (R-3/Aberdeen) a hard time for voting against Senate Bill 53, the 2% increase in K-12 funding.…
The hoghouse fun continues. Senate Bill 176 was supposed to fund the development of online educational resources. In its original form, the Department of Education would have…