A South Dakota ex-pat friend cheers the Minnesota House's vote for marriage equality and says he's glad to call Minnesota home. I suggest that perhaps my ex-pat friend and Governor Dennis Daugaard's other targets should bring their respectful debate and…
The Buffalo Ridge Blog, coming to us from somewhere in western Minnesota, laughs at Governor Dennis Daugaard's impending Mall of America recruiting trip: Yup, the GOP governor of South Dakota... is coming to the Mall of America to persuade all…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's South Dakota WINS plan was to spend $5 million on an out-of-state headhunter to bring a thousand new people to South Dakota. It may have worked: a glance at our Department of Labor data shows that from…
Governor Dennis Daugaard opens the 2015 Session of the South Dakota Legislature on Tuesday, January 13, with his State of the State Address. Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota delivered his inaugural address Monday in St. Paul, the day before the…
David Montgomery says Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed a "modest" 2.5% increase in the FY 2016 budget because of a slow state economy: The cautious increase was spurred by a lukewarm economy. The state's revenue is growing slowly — not enough…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's push for more mega-dairies has drawn legal action against Brookings County from Hendricks, Minnesota. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the Hendricks City Council has "filed a lawsuit" against Brookings County to stop the 3,999-head concentrated animal feeding…
Friend of the blog Lanny Stricherz offers this guest column to explain that GOP Senate candidate Mike Rounds and Governor Dennis Daugaard own a record of economic development failure and corruption much larger than the EB-5 scandal. * * *…
At the end of the Mike Rounds Administration, South Dakota's cost of living was 98.5% of the national average. At the end of the second quarter of this year, South Dakota's cost of living was 100.8% of the national average.…
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