Udpate 12:50 CST: My original post ignored a 3% wholesale tax imposed by Senate Bill 1. I have refigured my spreadsheet and adjusted the text here to include that new tax in this explanation. Wait a minute: did I call…
Posts tagged as “transportation”
One man's efficiency is another man's absurdity. Check out these three slides from Governor Dennis Daugaard's 2015 State of the State Address. Governor Daugaard told the Legislature that we don't want all of our roads to be in the best…
Governor Dennis Daugaard addressed several important topics in his State of the State Address to open the 2015 Session of the South Dakota Legislature this afternoon. He made up for a glaring omission from his December budget address by focusing…
The Department of Transportation is proposing a couple bills to make South Dakota's roads safer for non-motorized travelers. For cyclists, SD-DOT offers House Bill 1030. HB 1030 seeks to codify the three-foot separation that cars and trucks should give to…
Last November, Tony Venhuizen told us that 2014 was Dennis Daugaard's last election. The Governor now confirms that statement, in not so many words, by announcing that he will support raising taxes to fix South Dakota's roads and bridges: During…
In my summary of Senate Bill 1, the big road-fixing, fuel-taxing bill, I mentioned that the bill exempts aviation fuel from a new 3% wholesale tax. Incurable snark that I am (maybe SAB Biotherapeutics can engineer a shot for that),…
Hartford just got bus service. Yay, mass transit! Hartford City Administrator Teresa Sidel tells me that Hartford residents can ride a new (well, new to Hartford!) ten-seater bus around town three days a week (MWF), courtesy of Hartford Area Transit…
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me—bills! The first bills filed for the 2015 South Dakota Legislature don't necessarily predict how the Session will go any more than the first two tiny precincts that report…