Facts and good sense managed to beat back the one ugly outburst of anti-refugee paranoia that cropped up in this year’s Legislative Session. Now I’m proud…
Tag: labor
Hey, Southeast Technical Institute! Still wondering whom to can to cover your two-million-dollar deficit? Try Western Dakota Technical Institute’s solution: can your financial aid staff!…
Key to securing passage of House Bill 1182, the sales tax to raise K-12 teacher pay, was Rep. Lee Schoenbeck’s (R-5/Watertown) amendment specifying that three percent of…
Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton by double digits in the Wisconsin primary last night. Whoo-hoo! The media will continue to remind us of the daunting delegate…
In this week’s Convergence File, a Scalia-less Supreme Court deadlock has left the door open for a pro-union ballot measure in South Dakota. Back in January,…
If part of Donald Trump’s appeal is his promise of strength and prosperity to an economically anxious middle class, then we could really use an upswing in the…
Among the less-than-truths Mike Rounds used in 2014 to become our U.S. Senator was his claim that we needed to build Keystone XL to free up…
During floor debate on Senate Bill 159, Senator Phyllis Heineman’s make-my-hubby-richer stealth vouchers bill, Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) said that the Governor’s teacher-pay-raise plan would force private schools…
Governing posts unemployment data that might make David Novstrup think his youth minimum wage was a good idea. According to new U.S. Department of Labor data for…
From Ken Santema’s video, here’s my two-minute drill on Initiated Measure 23, the “fair-share” union dues proposal: As I’ve noted before, strengthening unions is one component of a broad…