Even the conservative Cato Institute agrees that Kristi Noem isn’t that great of a governor. In its 16th biennial Fiscal Policy Report Card grading governors’…
Tag: budget
Democratic candidate for governor Jamie Smith notes that his opponent has brought South Dakotans one new tax—a KRISTI Tax: Fireworks fuss, nepotism, Amendment A litigation,…
We have a functioning federal government for another couple months, no thanks to South Dakota’s Congressional deelgation. President Joe Bien signed an interim funding bill…
One of the better pandemic programs that the minority party in Congress killed this year was funding for free lunch for all public school students.…
A week after announcing emergency pay raises to prevent the staffing shortage in our state prisons from getting even worse, Governor Kristi Noem announced pay…
Governor Kristi Noem’s pay raises for prison personnel depend on job vacancies remaining open. Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko told Joint Appropriations last week that the…
I don’t see a supporting document on the Legislative Executive Board’s website, but Bob Mercer reports that the E-Board learned yesterday that the Legislature spent…
The Schumer-Manchin climate legislation deal appears to be trading one rich people’s tax break for two to get Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s vote: The Arizona…
Governor Kristi Noem happily ignored medical research when she declared telemedicine consultations for women seeking medication abortions too dangerous to be legal. But now when she…
A good chunk of South Dakota’s $115.5-million budget surplus for Fiscal Year 2022 came from collecting $36.6 million more in sales tax than expected. But…