Holy glowing cow! If you're trying to work up the courage to run against Dennis Daugaard for Governor in 2014, let this stiffen your spine: Governor Daugaard may be setting South Dakota up to host a nuclear waste dump. To…
You may have read my top-of-the-morning post yesterday on South Dakota's anemic GDP growth for 2012, a meager 0.2% uptick for the year. Then you may have read the state economic development honcho Pat Costello's announcement that South Dakota's GDP…
Maybe Governor Daugaard should recruit some bridge engineers from Minnesota. Governing compiles Federal Highway Administration bridge inspection data for 2012 and finds that South Dakota ties with Rhode Island for the fourth-highest percentage of structurally deficient bridges in the nation,…
The state Department of Labor miked up Governor Dennis Daugaard and took some video of his South Dakota sales pitch at the Mall of America a couple weeks ago. That Sioux Falls paper privileges us with a look: I'm sure…
Governor Dennis Daugaard got at least one Minneapolis reporter to come watch him conduct his publicity stunt in the Mall of America Monday. "Daugaard was there to pitch and persuade, not talk to the media," notes reporter Lee Schafer, who…
With Judge Mark Barnett throwing out a lawsuit against Governor Daugaard's SD WINS program, the Governor can go ahead with his efforts to pay an out-of-state company millions of dollars to convince talented workers to move back to South Dakota.…
When I finish rattling off the numerous evidence-based reasons that we should vote No on Referred Law 16 to protect South Dakota's successful K-12 schools from Governor Daugaard's ideological wrecking ball, proponents often resort to saying, "Yeah, but President Obama…
Josh Verges's headline, "Panel Guts Education Reform Bill Before Sending to Senate," would lead readers to believe that House Bill 1234 is now a far cry from the atrocity introduced by the Governor one month ago today and the ugly…
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