Governor Daugaard's persistent denigration of the liberal arts as disciplines that don't pay off gets me thinking about his current profession. Permit me to rewrite Steve Young's Monday report on the Governor's advice to our best and brokest: High school…
Nielson Brothers Polling unearths another anomaly in the thinking of South Dakota voters. Their July 23–28 survey of voters found that Governor Dennis Daugaard enjoys more support than Congresswoman Kristi Noem among almost every political group: Daugaard Noem Overall Job…
Yesterday the South Dakota Republican Party responded with immediate snark to Rep. Susan Wismer's announcement of former legislator Susy Blake has her running mate in the gubernatorial race. "South Dakotans Appreciate Results, Not Rhetoric," said the press release headline from…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says that two programs of the Governor's Office of Economic Development need money right now. Senate Bill 53 asks for an immediate infusion of $500,000 into the New South Dakotans and Dakota Roots programs. New South Dakotans…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's FY2015 budget proposal includes a boost to this fiscal year's corrections budget of $4 million. The Governor says we need to pump $4 million more into our prisons to fix a "correctional healthcare shortfall" arising from "significant…
Forbes releases another ranking of the Best States for Business. The good news: South Dakota is #11! The bad news: the People's Republic of Minnesota is 8th. state ranks (Forbes, Sep 2013) ND NE MN SD IA WY MT Business…
The Business Journals' On Numbers blog ranks U.S. governors on their states' job creation rates. South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard comes out 13th, with 16,200 more jobs in South Dakota than when he took office in January 2011. That's 900…
Even before Donald Pay broke the news that South Dakota may be angling for a nuclear waste dump, South Dakota ex-pat Joe Loveland wrote this funny, sharp rejection of Governor Dennis Daugaard's Minnesotan recruiting pitch. Loveland acknowledges the appeal of…
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