My neighbor Ken Santema gets me looking at documents on the agenda for Tuesday’s Government Operations and Audit Committee meeting, and I find one small fiscal note worth…
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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…
I’m having trouble finding much comment online from our Congressional delegation on the big budget resolution they voted for last week. Most Republicans are bragging up the…
President Obama and the Democratic Congress included the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act to save lives. But the Medicaid expansion also provides economic…
Instead of choosing to bully the South Dakota High School Activities Association, the organization that makes possible all those state tournaments everyone loves to attend and…
In the Psychological Projection Department, Congresswoman Kristi Noem upbraided IRS Commissioner John Koskinen in a hearing yesterday thus: A new staff report by Republicans on the House…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students has its website up. BlueRibbon.SD.Gov is nicely named for the next time the Governor needs…
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’…
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…