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Watertown and Pierre could add Minneapolis to their federally subsidized air service. At a special lunchtime meeting on Friday, the Watertown City Council followed Pierre…
Score one for the South Dakota Democratic Party. Their attack on Marty Jackley’s touring the state to campaign on office time may have fallen flat…
Seth Tupper does the homework on the Jackley travel budget question and finds the Democrats and Kristi Noem are probably wrong to imply that Marty…
Our discussion of all the taxpayer dollars our legislators spend to travel out of state leads to an obvious question: why would legislators charge us…
Kristi Noem is campaigning like a Democrat. You’ll recall that on Sunday, I reported on the record-high travel expenses the Attorney General’s office incurred in…
The Attorney General’s office apparently put more miles on their cars in Fiscal Year 2017. According to documents reviewed by the Government Operations and Audit…
I’ve been reviewing an updated summary of FY2017 legislator travel reimbursements provided by the Legislative Research Council. This updated list includes “miscellaneous” charges along with transportation,…
Watertown continues its love affair with federal airport dollars. In a special meeting Wednesday, the Watertown City Council unanimously approved spending $25,000 to further subsidize…
Nine Republican legislators from South Dakota traveled on taxpayer dollars in Fiscal Year 2017 to imbibe the corporate-fascist nectar of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange…