Hey, do you remember how the Legislature got lots of us to support increasing the state sales tax from 4% to 4.5% last year by promising…
Tag: South Dakota
We’ll get at least one good pipeline protest in before Senate Bill 176 takes effect and gives the Governor more power to quash public demonstrations:…
While South Dakota struggles to hold its head above budgetary water, while we wonder if our K-12 schools will get even the meager 1% boost Governor Daugaard…
Some of my northeastern legislators appear to be reading the blog! Following my post on the harmful impacts a Trump-tweet-trade war with Mexico could have on…
Your economic puzzle for the day comes from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which finds that, in the third quarter of 2016, South Dakota had…
Forget Governor; Stephanie Herseth Sandlin wants to be President… and she will be… at Augustana! Augustana University will introduce former congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin as…
In the “No Need to Burn Either Bridge Yet” Department, GOP House candidate Dusty Johnson tweets from the Hughes County Republican dinner with non-committal equanimity: 150+ at the…
KCCR Radio tweets that Yankton lawyer Jason Ravnsborg has announced his candidacy for Attorney General. Ravnsborg’s only previous candidacy, his 2014 bid for the Republican nomination for…
Today’s mantra in agriculture: get big, get a second income, or get hemp? The USDA reports that the number of farms and ranches in South…
Last month when the President threatened to “send in the Feds!” to address rising crime in Chicago (but of course didn’t follow up with any concrete…