Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) launched a slightly more subtle attack on House Bill 1182 this afternoon. Before the Stalzer Stall, but right after his…
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Teachers and administrators came from all around South Dakota today to watch the House of Representatives debate House Bill 1182, the Governor’s inferior (but preferable to…
The South Dakota Budget and Policy Institute surges into the teacher-pay-raise debate with a great analysis of the competing sales tax proposals. Both proposals, Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard’s…
House Bill 1182, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s half-penny sales tax increase to fund teacher pay raises, goes to the full House today for debate. Among the numerous…
Does the Legislature just not trust county governments? Yesterday Senate State Affairs killed Senate Bill 105, a measure that would have given counties a remarkably limited taxation…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck has a really good idea, one that the Legislature needs to apply to itself right now. Our favorite Watertown Republican is pushing House Bill…
The Democratic caucus in Pierre has filed its teacher-pay tax plan. Senate Bill 151 exempts food from sales tax, then raises the rest of the sales and use…
Counties had a good news/bad news week in Pierre. Senate Bill 2, which would give counties a portion of alcohol tax revenues, made it through its first…
Republican pollster Glen Bolger has found stronger support for raising sales tax to raise teacher pay than this week’s liberal Dakota Free Press poll. Bolger’s Public…
The #1 item on the South Dakota Legislature’s agenda is the opportunity to raise South Dakota teacher pay from 51st in the nation to 37th… or maybe…