Even the slaves to conservative opinion who edit the Rapid City Journal admit that low teacher pay is making it hard for South Dakota schools to fill teaching positions. Last week’s front-page Journal story on school districts that are having…
Posts tagged as “pension”
Bob Mercer hates it when Rep. Stace Nelson uses his work to make political arguments. But Bob's asking for it. Check out this land mine Mercer slipped into the middle of his article today on swimmingly safe solvency of the…
Bob Mercer and Donald Pay both expressed skepticism about my report Thursday on the status of South Dakota's pension fund. They were right to be skeptical. A conservative think tank called State Budget Solutions issued a report assailing all state…
Do all those South Dakota officials busted for corruption forfeit their pensions? Too bad for them if they do: South Dakota has one of the best-funded state pension systems in the country. Governing points us toward a new analysis from…
Cole R. Delaune tries really hard to portray GOP Senate candidate M. Michael Rounds as both too soft on abortion and too closely tied to the Todd Akinesque Bill Napoli on abortion. Delaune paints this Janus to justify his claim…
The welcomely resurgent Displaced Plainsman finds this flyer from California Congressman Devin Nunes (who blogs! the Congressman blogs!) promoting public pension reform. The good news? The South Dakota Retirement System (in which my wife and I both have some chips)…