During his eight years in office, Governor Dennis Daugaard reduced the share of federal support for South Dakota’s state budget from 44.84% in Fiscal Year…
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Governor Kristi Noem campaigned on the promise to fight government bloat. But once again, when she finds it politically convenient, she proposes expanding government. Amidst…
Here’s another example of how Donald Trump’s own self-absorbed incompetence saved us from a totally oppressive regime over the last four years. Back in 2018,…
Democratic legislator Jim Peterson tried for years to pass a plan to improve water quality with agricultural property tax incentives for grassy buffer strips along…
Dennis Daugaard is a tight-fisted conservative, but he’s also reasonable about public health. In a pleasantly rambling interview about his pleasantly rambling retirement, South Dakota’s…
I suppose we shouldn’t worry too much about Governor Kristi Noem’s nepotism. She’s making sure we can afford her well-paid kin by keeping the state’s…
South Dakota still isn’t meeting its target teacher salary. In 2016, we raised our state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% with the goal of…
Google is bringing Sarpy County, Nebraska, its eighth big data center, promising to create at least 30 permanent jobs. Meanwhile, at the bottom of Bob…
According to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, only three grants have gone out this year from the Future Fund, the Governor’s unchecked slush fund.…
My prediction that Tony Venhuizen was in the chute to become our permanent Secretary of Education turns out to be wishful thinking. Instead of remaining…