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…
Tag: property tax
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…
The Appropriations Committee documents include this table of total property values in South Dakota from 2011 through 2016 (payable 2012 through 2017). In 2011, in the…
Well, I screwed that story up. Yesterday I reported, based on a hasty reading of Senate Bill 35 that the conference committee had stripped the…
Speaking of tax incentives, Governor Dennis Daugaard has submitted his grassy-buffer-strips bill. Senate Bill 66 revisits the issue the Governor vetoed last year on constitutional grounds.…
When I recommend reforming South Dakota’s tax system by replacing our regressive sales and property taxes with a progressive income tax, Republicans go ape with…
…and Whose Fault Is That Unfairness? Rep. Al Novstrup and I agree that South Dakota’s current method of assessing agricultural land for property tax is a mess.…
One of the complaints against Senate Bill 136, the bipartisan grassy buffer strips bill that Governor Dennis Daugaard vetoed last spring, was that the bill…
If you want the Governor to sign a bill, it can’t have a “D” in front of it. It has to have two Ds. Following signals…
The Aberdeen American News doesn’t endorse candidates. But in yesterday’s edition, the AAN editorial board endorsed my position on grassy buffer strips, a position my opponent in…