Chris Martian—pronounced like a person from Marty, not Mars—spoke with me yesterday about his run for U.S. House, which he announced over the weekend by filing his…
Tag: South Dakota
Send Your Applications to Be SDDP Exec! Suzanne Jones Pranger is leaving her job as executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party to pursue “other…
Last week I reported that, as of the end of February, the state was spending money more slowly than it had at that point in…
A couple weeks ago, I reported BEA data showing South Dakota’s farm earnings were down 57% in 2016. The Mitchell Tech-based Center for Farm/Ranch Management gathers similarly…
Here’s a twist: Roxanne Weber and Nicholas Rasmussen of South Dakota Voter Protection did not submit one draft of an initiated constitutional amendment to protect the…
Gordon Howie bemoans the expansion of food stamps and taxes under the governorship of his fellow Republicans Dennis Daugaard and Marion Michael Rounds. Just short of 100,000…
South Dakota’s tax revenues may be lagging, but, on the good side, so is state spending: As of the end of February, 66.67% of the…
Represent South Dakota wasn’t able to stop the Legislature from repealing Initiated Measure 22, the anti-corruption measure voters passed last November. Thus, they are proposing a constitutional…
In February, Iowa passed a new law limiting the collective bargaining rights of teachers and other public employees. AFSCME, which represents public employees, sued right away; now the Iowa teachers’ union…