An area where Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Legislature have more damagingly dithered than grassy buffer strips is Medicaid expansion. Three years in, and we…
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As I talk to voters, I regularly steer the conversation away from Presidential politics and encourage voters to discuss South Dakota’s ten ballot questions, education funding, corruption, and…
Remember how our Legislature passed stealth vouchers to give their insurance company pals tax breaks for laundering public money into private-school scholarships? Even if we set aside…
As the accused GEAR UP felons appear in Charles Mix County court today, I need to correct and expand on a report I posted last week…
The failure of South Dakota’s GEAR UP program to produce evidence of success in getting more kids to college is not unique. Angela Kennecke finds a spring 2013…
The Tri-Valley School Board will meet on April 11 to give second reading to its proposed school gunslinger policy. If the Tri-Valley board won’t believe my contention…
South Dakota’s fiscal disrespect for teaching evidently extends beyond K-12 into our Regental system. The Board of Regents considered a proposal “to set tuition at zero and…
…Burdette Shows Research Chops! Yesterday’s candidate forum here in Aberdeen brought three of the four school board candidates together to speak to the voters (all three of us…