A new report finds that Minnesota is bucking a national trend of increasingly regressive taxation. From 2013 to 2015, Minnesota has led a small minority of…
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My local paper certainly thinks Brown County Commissioner Tom Fischbach had a good idea. Last September, he alerted his fellow commissioners to the fact that Joop…
Governor Daugaard thinks we should tax amateur baseball coaches on the work they do for kids. To that end, he vetoed Senate Bill 159. Yesterday,…
On November 20, 2013, I reported that Joop Bollen had run an unlicensed bank and dodged the bank franchise tax in the course of South Dakota’s…
Dr. Tim Mitchell superintends a school district with a student body the size of the entire town of Pierre and a staff (teachers, sweepers, everybody) the…
I had a great time yesterday listening to students debate major South Dakota issues and speaking with them afterward at the South Dakota Democratic Party’s Young Elected Legislative…
Of all the bills he could have and should have vetoed, Governor Dennis Daugaard yesterday chose to veto three tax cuts. They were niggly favors for…
Governor Dennis Daugaard vetoed three of the eight bills still on his desk this morning: Senate Bills 100, 136, and 159. Senate Bill 100 would have…
I rode my bike to the courthouse to get my license plate tags yesterday. (Pause. Enjoy.) My renewal isn’t due until the end of May,…
While a majority of Republicans cheer passage of Senate Bill 1, the $85-million transportation bill, complete with a six-cent increase in the per-gallon fuel tax starting April 1…