Rep. Sue Peterson (R-13/Sioux Falls) failed Monday to get the House to force every school district to allow homeschoolers to participate in high school extracurriculars…
Tag: property tax
Good policy does occasionally make it through the South Dakota Legislature. House Agriculture and Natural Resources took its turn this morning at House Bill 1119, an…
Michael Hauke, Jr., didn’t update his LinkedIn page when he moved from Brule County to Brown to serve as our director of equalization eleven months…
The Trump Tax is already a boon for Brown County. According to our treasurer, Sheila Enderson, taxpayers looking to maximize deductions under pre-Trump law more…
Wealthy homeowners are trying to escape one part of the new Trump Tax by prepaying their 2018 property taxes and applying those payments to their…
The Legislature’s Ag Land Assessment Task Force heard received a report Monday from the Department of Revenue on 2018 land assessments. That report shows that…
Get set for a tax vote in Lake County! The petition drive to refer a new 0.9-mill property tax levy for roads collected enough signatures…
My old home folks in Lake County are up to some democracy. My friend Steven Kant is helping circulate a petition to refer Lake County’s newly…
The South Dakota Legislature meets in special session today in Pierre to deal with the issue of nonmeandered waters, the lakes over private lands that…
So I’m hanging out at day #1 of public testimony to the Legislature’s interim committee on non-meandered waters here in Aberdeen. This is the issue flowing…