For the fourth year in a row, Kristi Noem has taxed South Dakotans too much: Today, Governor Kristi Noem announced that South Dakota closed the…
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What does Republican Governor Kristi Noem do when South Dakota runs a budget surplus? Brag about it and tuck it in the bank. What does…
Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) says Rapid City’s fringe right-wing Republicans are hurting South Dakota’s economic development with their radical votes. Representative Tina Mullaly (R-35/Rapid…
South Dakota state government took $115.5 million more out of taxpayers’ pockets than it really needed to in Fiscal Year 2022, which ended June 30.…
But don’t worry, State Fair Commission: if you’re running low on cash from your low-low ticket prices, that state should be able to spot you…
South Dakota’s $85.9-million budget surplus last fiscal year came from wind farm construction and federal coronavirus relief and farm subsidies, not from any brilliant visionary fiscal…
Following her meeting with State Penitentiary staff about their complaints about long overtime hours, low pay, and poor working conditions, Governor Kristi Noem took questions…
On Wednesday I worked up a conservative analysis that says federal coronavirus relief dollars from the 2020 CARES Act, 2021 American Rescue Plan, Paycheck Protection…
I keep thinking about that $85,875,130 surplus left over from South Dakota’s FY2021 budget. $23,863,600 of that was appropriated money that the state didn’t spend,…
Governor Kristi Noem says that the record 85.9-million-dollar budget surplus South Dakota incurred in Fiscal Year 2021 happened “Because of our respect for freedom and…