In back-home news, the Lake County Commission chose racehorse breeding over gravel mining last week as it denied a conditional-use permit to my friends Lee…
Tag: horseracing
Behind its paywall, my local paper oddly opines that there are correct and incorrect attitudes about the demise of horseracing in South Dakota: Fort Pierre…
It looks like our horse-racing subsidy will sit in the barn for at least a year. After receiving a $120,000 state subsidy, South Dakota’s two…
The Senate spared Governor Kristi Noem the agony of having to consider another possible violation of her promise that “We Won’t Raise Taxes” with the…
Senate Bill 128, the horse-racing subsidy, hobbled across the Legislative finish line with a fifth of what its Republican sponsors wanted. Prime sponsors Senator Jeff…
The latest bill report from the LRC lists five bills for which conference committees have been appointed to spend the last three full days of…
Governor Kristi Noem’s primary and absolute promise at the beginning of this Legislative Session was, “We won’t raise taxes.” The following bills facing the Crossover…