Pat Powers rushes to tamp down the Robert Pear’s suggestion of a split between Pat’s sponsors Governor Dennis Daugaard and Senator John Thune on Medicaid expansion…
Tag: South Dakota
Pat Powers invites you to advertise on his blog. For your money he offers you exposure to “non-campaign season traffic” that “averages 1000-1500 unique individual…
The real 36% rate cap on payday loans is on the 2016 ballot! Cap the Rate SD informs me that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs…
Sensible Republican blogger (the terms are not mutually exclusive) John Tsitrian says it’s crazy that South Dakota doesn’t have an income tax and it’s crazy…
At SDSU, Laurie Stenberg Nichols has been making $251,000 a year. She’s leaving to preside over the University of Wyoming, which will pay her a base…
Just what I wanted in my Christmas stocking—the first bills of the 2016 Legislative Session! HB, SB, whee whee whee! Now listed on the website that…
Merry Christmas, believers in democracy! Secretary of State Shantel Krebs this morning certified the redistricting petition! This summer and fall, Farmers Union collected signatures to submit to South Dakota’s voters a constitutional…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is looking at Medicaid expansion from a partisan political perspective, so why don’t we? In his December 8 budget address, Governor Dennis Daugaard…
Your Department of Labor and Regulation tweets a cute infographic showing the South Dakota equivalent average wages for Santa’s helpers at the North Pole. Naturally, such South Dakota…
We tried this heading into the 2014 Session; let’s try it again! Dakota Free Press readers include some of the sharpest policy thinkers in state. So let’s…