The GOP spin blog can’t bear to say much about the Governor’s State of the State speech, because a huge portion of the Governor’s speech affirms stories…
Tag: Dennis Daugaard
Governor Dennis Daugaard just made an interesting argument on SDPB Dakota Midday in the debate between the competing proposals for raising sales tax to raise teacher pay…
South Dakota’s Democratic legislators have responded to the Governor’s plan to raise teacher pay with their own critique and counterproposal. The South Dakota Democrats’ Comprehensive Report…
I wrote my open letter to Governor Dennis Daugaard yesterday suspecting that the Governor wouldn’t just advocate the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan to raise teacher pay. I thought he’d hold…
To the Honorable Governor Dennis Daugaard, Tomorrow you open the 2016 Session of the South Dakota Legislature with your traditional State of the State Address. In…
The South Dakota Democratic Party has hired a new communications director. For the guy they hired, Michael Ewald, that’s probably the headline of the year. From the…
I’m still scratching my head over Governor Dennis Daugaard’s New Year’s Eve column. In my most generous reading, it appears the following conversation took place on…
Pat Powers rushes to tamp down the Robert Pear’s suggestion of a split between Pat’s sponsors Governor Dennis Daugaard and Senator John Thune on Medicaid expansion…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is looking at Medicaid expansion from a partisan political perspective, so why don’t we? In his December 8 budget address, Governor Dennis Daugaard…
The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students released its 34-page, 29-recommendation final report on November 11, 2015. Governor Dennis Daugaard’s initial reaction to his task force’s report…