I teased new Sioux Falls mayor Paul TenHaken last week for some word and spandex choices that could make his Republican backers nervous. Now this week…
Tag: labor
While discussing Billie Sutton’s economic development plan yesterday, I mentioned that government can’t reach into the private sector and raise everybody’s wages. But maybe government…
Democratic candidate for governor Billie Sutton starts off his economic development plan with the one phrase his Republican opponents refuse to mention when talking workforce: raising…
On Tuesday the Tax Foundation published an analysis of the state-by-state cost of Trump’s impulsive and ill-advised steel and aluminum tariffs. This analysis does not…
The Legislature’s passage of bills raising and indexing legislator pay starting next year prompted one of my Twitter friends to wag, “So collective bargaining does…
In another bit of remarkable good news from Pierre, the Senate yesterday listened to people who care about higher education and killed House Bill 1199,…
Whoo-hoo! Patrick Lalley still thinks I’m worth having on the air! In today’s blogging on the radio (our fifteen-minute segment starts at 35:00), Lalley and I…
Senator Billie Sutton and the Democratic caucus get credit for fighting for practical women’s issues with House Bill 1153, which sought to protect pregnant and…
NSU Provost and musician Alan LaFave asked legislators at Aberdeen’s Saturday crackerbarrel to discuss the impact another year of no raises for state employees would…
At today’s Legislative crackerbarrel in Aberdeen, Northern State e-learning prof Greg Francom asked who would benefit from and what problem would be solved by House Bill…