Governor Dennis Daugaard might want to reallocate $20 million in his budget address next week. 35 Chinese EB-5 investors are suing the State of South Dakota…
Tag: South Dakota
Item 5-S on the South Dakota Board of Regents’ agenda this afternoon makes me think someone at Black Hills State University has been sitting too close to…
Update 13:25 CST: Hold on! The editorial I discuss below was originally published by the Rapid City Journal on November 15! The Bismarck Tribune reprinted it on November…
Among other items on its agenda for this week’s meeting in Spearfish, the South Dakota Board of Regents will take up its plan to take over administration…
Our friend and neighbor Charlie Johnson will see his long-standing organic farm disrupted by the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Public Utilities Commission approved the Bakken oil pipeline yesterday on a…
Part 3 of Dakotafire‘s coverage of South Dakota’s teacher shortage wonders if the Blue Ribbon panel’s 30th recommendation should have been recruiting moms to teach: “Being a teacher…
An eager reader shares an editorial from the Los Angeles Times on the EB-5 visa investment program, on which our Congressional delegation needs to figure out its position…
Find $75 million in revenue to raise South Dakota teacher pay at least $8,000, from 51st to 39th in the nation—that’s the crux of the plan…
Bob Ellis dismisses the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay from 51st to 39th in the nation as another liberal plot to expand…
Tasi Livermont offers a two-part (so far!) report on South Dakota’s teacher shortage and the challenge facing the 2016 Legislature to do something about it with the Blue Ribbon K-12…