Governor Dennis Daugaard's position on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion may be shifting a bit. In the pretty clear you-lazy-bums language of his budget address in December, he said expanding Medicaid is bad, bad, bad. But now he's saying…
Posts tagged as “Arizona”
Last month Congresswoman Kristi Noem followed her GOP House leaders and voted for HR 1904, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act. On the surface, HR 1904 seems like a pretty good deal: the federal government trades 2422 acres…
The Gooney McBuckshot clan will be a little disappointed: South Dakota cannot claim to have the absolute-worst gun safety laws in the country. According to the Brady Campaign State Scorecard, South Dakota ties with seven other states for the third-lowest…
Eager reader Wayne Booze sets the stage for a stunning argument in favor of adopting Senator Stanford Adelstein's temporary extra-penny summer sales tax (Senate Bill 174) instead of Governor Dennis Daugaard's 10% state budget cuts. In respsonse to my argument…