Governor Dennis Daugaard will decide this week whether he will veto House Bill 1217 or whether he will nullify women's reproductive privacy in South Dakota. But if that loss of privacy won't stop HB 1217, perhaps the loss of privacy…
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Madville Times launches catalog of K-12 cuts. The Madison Central School District may provide $360,000 less in educational services next year, courtesy of the radical and unnecessary austerity budget passed by our Senator Russell Olson and Governor Dennis Daugaard. That's…
I noted hard school budget decisions at Yankton and Rapid City earlier this week. Now a friend on Facebook shares the following list of impacts of Governor Dennis Daugaard's K-12 budget cuts on the Beresford school district: Beresford has determined…
A West River correspondent with legislative experience says that the 2011 South Dakota Legislature passed some new rules that hurt schools in sparsely populated districts. I review this correspondent's list of sparse school districts in northwestern South Dakota and find…
U.S. PIRG ranks states for offering online access to state budget data. How'd South Dakota score? D+ for us. Our online state checkbook shows what we're spending and whom we're paying. You can search the database by vendor and by…
Here's an angle of House Bill 1217 that escaped my attention until today. SDPB's Vicky Wicks interviewed Dr. Michael Fenner, a constitutional law expert at Creighton University, on the ramifications of the abortion restrictions awaiting Governor Dennis Daugaard's signature. Dr.…
SDPB's Dakota Midday features a conversation today on HB 1217, South Dakota's latest attempt to practically ban abortion. According to the on-air promo I heard, host Paul Guggenheimer will talk with Republican Senator Joni Cutler, who voted against the bill,…
Dakota War College continues to shovel manure for the GOP "leadership" in Pierre. Mr. Crissman opines that their rush budget (with less waiting period and counseling than legislators would demand of women making their own medical decisions) is a "newsworthy"…