On our way home from the in-laws’ last week, my lovely wife observed that Nebraska highways appear to have more wildflowers in the medians and…
Tag: Dennis Daugaard
“In South Dakota, we don’t spend money we don’t have,” says Governor Dennis Daugaard, celebrating South Dakota’s third-best fiscal solvency. We don’t spend money we…
The Blue Ribbon K-12 panel is meeting right now in Pierre (listen live online via SDPB). This afternoon they’ll hear from Michael Griffith, senior policy analyst for…
Mark Walker of that Sioux Falls paper looks at a Pew Charitable Trusts Stateline report that discusses what states are doing to help ex-offenders get back into the workforce. 70…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has said there’s no way South Dakota could set up a state-run health insurance exchange in time to save the premium tax subsidies that the…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has named the other half of his Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students. Out of the thirteen new appointees joining the ten…
If we Democrats and über-conservative Republicans could get along, we could tag-team Governor Daugaard into a tizzy. At the same time that he was penning a specious,…
The U.S. Supreme Court will rule this month on King v. Burwell, a case that questions whether Congress intended to offer tax subsidies for health insurance to all income-qualified Americans or…
Dr. Alan Neville, education department chair at Northern State University, says the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students is rigged: …the composition…