Via Governing, I learn that state government general fund spending nationwide in Fiscal Year 2016 is up by 4.1 percent: Enacted fiscal 2016 budgets show aggregate general…
Tag: Dennis Daugaard
It bothers me that some people who can work will become more dependent on government…. I hate that. I hate dependency. —Governor Dennis Daugaard, FY2017 budget…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s proposed FY2017 budget does not mention the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s recommendation to allocate at least $75 million to raise teacher pay. The…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is not ready to pay for competitive teacher salaries yet, but he is ready to pay for lawyers. In the FY2017 budget proposal released…
Democrats may be annoyed by yet another miserly budget address from a governor who doesn’t fully put his money where his mouth is on vital public goods. But the…
In the right corner, weighing in with Heisenbergian uncertainty on the legal grounds for prosecuting fantasy sports gamblers, the Meade County Mauler, the Channette Choker, Attorney General…
Bob Mercer joins many other South Dakotans in wishing that Governor Dennis Daugaard would use his budget address this afternoon to address corruption in state government. It seems…
A Facebook correspondent looks at Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon’s suggestion that Governor Dennis Daugaard wants to require new Medicaid recipients to work and asks if that’s even…
If Governor Dennis Daugaard offers to expand Medicaid in his budget address next week (and I contend that’s still a big if), he won’t do so happily.…
Governor Dennis Daugaard might want to reallocate $20 million in his budget address next week. 35 Chinese EB-5 investors are suing the State of South Dakota…