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Tyler Opposes Build Dakota Scholarship

Republicans most likely went looking for a constitutional excuse to can Kathy Tyler because of her outspoken criticism of the EB-5 scandal brought to us by the Rounds-Daugaard regime. But Republicans probably also don't like the former Milbank legislator's criticism…

State Rejects Madison, Sioux Falls Requests for Workforce Development Grants

Sixteen groups applied last November for workforce development grants from the South Dakota Workforce Initiative. The Workforce Development Council rejected just two of those applications: Madison's and Sioux Falls's. I'm willing to bet that the council rejected Madison's just because…

South Dakota Reliance on Federal Government 4th Highest, But Declining!

The Tax Foundation reminds us that South Dakota continues to stay afloat on red-state moocherism. Our conservative one-party state relies on the federal government for a greater percentage of its general revenues than all but three other states:   South…

Krebs Shrinking Government, Says Leaner Staff Working Hard

When incoming Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced she was hiring Brown County GOP chairman Jason Williams to serve as her public information officer, I wondered if she was expanding government to make room for what looked like a little…

Krebs Expanding Government to Give GOP Partisan a Job?

Shantel Krebs opens 2015 with a splendid example of Republicans promoting big government and regulatory capture. Our new Secretary of State, who takes her oath tomorrow morning at 8 a.m., a week and a day before any other new constitutional…

Obama Beating Bush on Post-Recession Jobs Recovery

Kevin Drum produces a remarkable chart that shows President Barack Obama's clear superiority to his predecessor in helping the economy recover from recession: Count private employment as a percentage of the labor force, and you see that in five and…