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Get Practical: Build South Dakota Scholarship Apps Available

The Build Dakota Scholarship is now open to applicants! (Just be careful when you click: when I opened the new site, welding sparks flashed all over the place.) The scholarship board has decided to spend $25 million of T. Denny…

Higher Education Days in Pierre: Students Seek More Bucks, Not Bullets

Menno Schukking, vice-president of the Northern State University Student Association, led off the Q&A at Saturday's Aberdeen crackerbarrel by asking legislators if they thought Senate Bill 181 was a good idea. SB 181 would appropriate $3.2 million to the Board…

Rapid City Boosters Also Working on Vo-Tech Scholarship Plan

Did you know Governor Dennis Daugaard and billionaire Denny Sanford aren't the only guys proposing a vo-tech scholarship? A month prior to the big announcement of the Build Dakota Scholarship, the Rapid City Economic Development Partnership and other interested Black…

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…

SoDak Vo-Tech Scholarship Plan Small Potatoes Compared to Minn., Tenn., Obama

Governor Dennis Daugaard's new Build Dakota Scholarship for vocational-school students is a corporate welfare program whose primary aim is addressing a workforce shortage and providing select South Dakota industries with a captive labor pool. It will provide 300 scholarships over…

Madville Makes Merry with Poem on Policy

Who says I can't celebrate Christmas? I observe the holiday with a poem for South Dakota Magazine. Here's the first stanza of my meditation on the Build Dakota Scholarship: Check out the full poem at South Dakota Magazine. Merry Christmas,…

Will Build Dakota Scholarship Pay Off? Sometimes! But…

The Build Dakota Scholarship program created by Governor Dennis Daugaard and billionaire T. Denny Sanford promises 300 vo-tech students a year a free two-year education in return for three years of work in South Dakota. KELO says vo-tech programs in…