Bob Mercer and I are reading and thinking the same things. That historic state flag isn’t the only thing that went missing under Jason Gant’s Secretary of…
Tag: government
Maybe we could fund Medicaid expansion by cutting the meeting budget for the state’s Health and Educational Facilities Authority. Bob Mercer reports that the HEFA board spent $5,858…
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,…
Scott Westerhuis’s apparent murder-suicide and the burning of his lavish-beyond-visible-means house on September 17 has sent investigators and journalists digging deeper to find what sort of sins or errors…
Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds and Representative Kristi Noem voted not to shut down the government yesterday. The good news is that it looks like…
In discussing the Aberdeen City Council’s vote Monday to support “the establishment of an independent, nonpartisan redistricting commission,” I mentioned SDCL 12-27-20, which says we can’t spend tax dollars…
Certain oil and gas boosters want South Dakota to believe, against most evidence, that expanding oil exploration would bring us the milk and honey of the…
I’m not convinced the federal recognition of Denali as the proper name of Alaska’s (and North America’s!) highest peak signals that the Obama Administration is ready to…
Plus: State’s Attorney Lovrien Misreads County Referendum Law The Brown County Commission Discussed consolidation of the auditor, treasurer, and register of deeds this morning. Their special…
Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender says he wants city council members and the mayor to serve more than two years between elections. Mayor Allender announced at…