Dakota Free Press Podcast #004 is ready for your ears! https://dakotafreepress.com/wp-content/podcast/DFP004.mp3 After our Veto Day conversation, Republican Representative Drew Dennert was willing to sit for another 20-minute chat…
Tag: labor
It’ll take more than one New York Times report about an ill-timed trip to Mount Rushmore (whose 3,500 words aren’t as negative as some headline readers might conclude)…
South Dakota agriculture relies on immigrant workers to bring in the crops, cattle, and milk. Another big South Dakota industry, tourism, relies on foreign labor to cook, clean, and…
(Forgive me as I try to talk like my xenophobic neighbors. I’m just trying to understand them… and point out the failure of their political…
Thanks to Amendment R and Senate Bill 65, the vo-techs can finally get local school boards out of their hair, if they want. Thanks to House Bill…
Among the anti-labor measures big businesses are pushing Congress to pass is a repeal of the National Labor Relations Board’s joint employer standard. In August 2015, the…
For further proof that our Republican Legislature gives not one darn about real family values, we turn to Monday’s defeat in committee of House Bill 1120, a…
South Dakota Codified Law Chapter 11-11 authorizes the South Dakota Housing Development Authority to make up for the failure of the free market to provide sufficient affordable housing and…
Flaccid tax receipts have not deterred members of the Legislature from seeking to spend more money. Among the measures arising from the Interim study of nursing home and assisted living…
Outgoing Codington County Commissioner Elmer Brinkman reflects on how increasing his local government workforce decreased costs: When Brinkman first started, the commissioners met at 10 a.m. each…