In the backfire department, Sioux Falls businesswoman Tove Hoff Bormes is hanging out at Josiah’s Coffeehouse and Café this morning collecting signatures on the petition to put a…
Tag: South Dakota
The Department of Health reports that 40 same-sex couples applied for marriage licenses in the first month following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v Hodges. That’s less than…
Friday I noted that South Dakota has the 11th-highest minimum wage in the nation, at $8.50 an hour. Come Saturday, Minnesota will bump us back to 12th:…
The state Board of Education took a step to ease South Dakota’s teacher shortage yesterday by making it easier to get certified to teach middle school…
Poor Pat Powers, stuck on the road, unable to post his usual cycle of weekend press releases from our Dear Leaders. How South Dakota suffers without…
When Capital One expanded its call center in Sioux Falls in 2012, all of South Dakota’s leading lights came to cheer: Recall that the people in…
In raw dollars, South Dakota’s $8.50 an hour is the 11th-best in the nation. Nine states and D.C. guarantee a higher basic wage. No neighboring…
Sioux Falls Drinking Liberally (which proudly sponsors this blog) offers some news on the status of the long-awaited new executive director for the South Dakota Democratic Party:…
Governing ranks states by job growth for the first half of 2015. South Dakota is actually rocking out, with 2.0% job growth (8,400 new jobs) over…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) isn’t heeding the Governor’s admonition to shush until the Governor’s Blue Ribbon K-12 panel issues its policy proposals. Rep. Schoenbeck offers his…