The Health Care Solutions Coalition meets this week Wednesday (1 p.m. at the Pierre Ramkota). Their mission: figure out if South Dakota can finally expand Medicaid under…
Tag: Dennis Daugaard
Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota is coming to South Dakota. No, he’s not setting up a kiosk at the Empire Mall to try to convince…
Here’s my morning head-scratcher: South Dakota is getting $1.6 million through AmeriCorps to help the Red Cross, Boy Scouts, the Extension Service, Teach for America, and…
Hey, executive-order hawks! Care to shout at Governor Dennis Daugaard a bit this morning? While browsing the Governor’s recent executive orders, I found that on June 12,…
Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute offers some national teacher job numbers that show that public layoffs in response to the recession have left the U.S.…
Bob Mercer posts an exceptionally interesting letter from Governor Dennis Daugaard to the Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee. In the letter, dated October 1, 2015, the Governor announces…
After forgoing two years worth of health benefits and economic stimulus for South Dakota, Governor Dennis Daugaard may finally be surrendering the permanence and logic of the Affordable Care…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says it’s the state’s job to supply workers to business. In his latest column, the Governor says government, education, and business need to work…
The advisory board putting together the new state debt collection agency (that’s the “Obligation Recovery Center” created with no small contention by House Bill 1228 this year) meets Tuesday…
O.K., Larry Kurtz is right. Grass is such a politically potent issue that it can topple even Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plans: Based on input from the…