Republican pollster Glen Bolger has found stronger support for raising sales tax to raise teacher pay than this week’s liberal Dakota Free Press poll. Bolger’s Public…
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The #1 item on the South Dakota Legislature’s agenda is the opportunity to raise South Dakota teacher pay from 51st in the nation to 37th… or maybe…
…and democracy is hard work! My friends at Sioux Falls Democratic Forum, who also pay good money to advertise on this blog, graciously allowed me to hold…
Uh oh: Is Governor Dennis Daugaard headed for the same ignominious fiscal failure as his predecessor, M. Michael Rounds? The Bureau of Finance and Management released budget projections…
My neighbor and NSU education professor Alan Neville uses his column in the Aberdeen American News this morning to urge passage of Governor Dennis Daugaard’s teacher pay raise plan: On…
The youngest cranky old man in the South Dakota Blogosphere gives us a taste of the basic opposition Governor Daugaard and his new best friends…
South Dakota’s Democratic legislators have responded to the Governor’s plan to raise teacher pay with their own critique and counterproposal. The South Dakota Democrats’ Comprehensive Report…
I wrote my open letter to Governor Dennis Daugaard yesterday suspecting that the Governor wouldn’t just advocate the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s plan to raise teacher pay. I thought he’d hold…
House Majority Leader Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) and Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) are playing word games to hide their lack of political courage and avoid enacting the two…
To the Honorable Governor Dennis Daugaard, Tomorrow you open the 2016 Session of the South Dakota Legislature with your traditional State of the State Address. In…