Governor Noem delivers her State of the State Address Tuesday… but it’s largely redundant. Didn’t she already spend $1.4 million to hire Minnesotans to tell…
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South Dakota’s general fund revenues continue to show more fiscal health than Governor Kristi Noem’s stingy and visionless budget proposal would lead us to believe.…
What was in vogue with Dakota Free Press readers in 2019? Here are the 116 posts (including a few from previous years!) that drew more…
The South Dakota State Employees Organization is calling for the Legislature to study state worker pay and benefits. SDSEO exec Eric Olilla tells WNAX that…
Bob Mercer digs through the state’s ledger and finds we’ve paid over two million dollars to tote our float through the last ten Macy’s Thanksgiving…
Kristi Noem’s kids aren’t the only ones who got big raises in South Dakota this year. New data shows that, around the same time that…
Governor Kristi Noem is trying to sound like a moderate, saying she’s open to legalizing industrial hemp if it’s done right. But don’t be fooled;…
Northwestern Area school superintendent Ryan Bruns is showing South Dakota educators how to properly respond to Governor Kristi Noem’s illegal betrayal of the sales-tax-for-teacher-pay promise…
Maybe GOAC and the Department of Education need to spend less time fretting about the standardized tests that kids (and reasonable parents and teachers) ignore…
I didn’t hear anything about that “Next Big Thing” Kristi Noem said she’d be looking for, but the Governor’s first regular budget address did include…