The 2017 Legislature held a whole special session to deal with nonmeandered waters (Rep. Kevin Jensen appears to call them “rogue lakes“—sounds like a job…
Tag: Dennis Daugaard
Rapid City blogger and columnist John Tsitrian does a good job of taking apart Governor Dennis Daugaard’s rebuttal to Tsitrian’s diagnosis of South Dakota’s anemic…
District 8’s legislators sound notably passive in the face of the dreary budget outlook offered by Governor Dennis Daugaard. Like the Governor, instead of offering…
Senate Minority Leader Billie Sutton (D-21/Burke), the Democrats’ standard-bearer in the 2018 gubernatorial race, joins the chorus of disappointment greeting Governor Dennis Daugaard’s bleak final…
South Dakota’s current budget faces a $33.7-million shortfall. Revenues are on track to come in $20.3 million lower than the Legislature expected when it wrote…
In his final budget address, Governor Dennis Daugaard showed he intends to go out with a whimper, not a bang. Faced with troublingly stagnant sales…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s budget address on Tuesday will tackle one thorny contributor to South Dakota’s lagging sales tax revenues—increased spending on health care: Twenty years…
Speaking of Tony Venhuizen, the Governor’s chief of staff tweeted this photo of possibly the funniest lieutenant governor in the United States and invites captions:…
Hey, Republicans! Your own Governor Dennis Daugaard has joined the “War on Coal”: I do think coal has seen its day. More and more power…