Removing Rep. Steven Haugaard before he’s promoted from Pro Tempore to Speaker will be more easily said than done. According to this morning’s voter registration totals…
Tag: statistics
The latest monthly voter registration figures show that, since the 2016 general election, the Secretary of State has removed 14,319 South Dakotans from the active…
Independent blogger John Tsitrian finds the Legislature’s proposed pay amendment reasonable, given that raising legislators’ annual pay from $6,000 to $10,200 is equivalent to what…
A couple weeks ago, John Tsitrian presented the surprising data that, under the Daugaard Administration, South Dakota’s per capita GDP growth has averaged a meager…
The FBI’s crime stats for 2016 say that violent crime went up for the second year in a row last year while property crime continued…
The Legislative Research Council just issued the July and August reports on Medical Services Data and Trends, which tell us how much South Dakota and…
I heard mention of the new Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages on the radio; Bob Mercer was kind enough to provide the link to…
South Dakota KIDS COUNT fills its Twitter stream with interesting data. Today’s chart shows that we’re doing a relatively poor job of persuading teenagers not…
The illiterate SDGOP spin blog is back to appealing to the Cost of Living Fairy to justify South Dakota’s low teacher pay. In January 2016,…
Who’s the only South Dakota political party that grew in July? The Libertarians! Party Change July 5 to August 1 GOP -0.29% Dem -0.49% NPA/Ind…