In continuing celebration of juche, Governor Dennis Daugaard travels to White Lake today to dedicate the Crow Lake Wind Project. (Expect to hear the term self-reliance at least three times in the Governor's speech.) This new wind farm, which has…
Well, at least we still have D-I football.... Over one hundred well-trained professionals are having a harder time this morning explaining why they would want to live in South Dakota. Our flagship university and my alma mater, South Dakota State…
I'm surprised I didn't see this study sooner. I'm not surprised that salesman-in-chief Dennis Daugaard hasn't mentioned it. Jeff Rosenberg of MNPublius spotlights a study on state and local business taxes by Ernst and Young for the Council on State…
Governor Daugaard staunchly opposes raising taxes to solve South Dakota's budget deficit: I... believe that the worse [sic] time to raise taxes is when you're trying to climb out of a recession. I think that will have every bit of…
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed into law a big increase in his state's income tax. The individual rate jumps from 3% to 5%, while the business rate rises from 4.8% to 7%. Illinois faces a budget deficit, just as…
Remember way back in June, right after his unexpectedly big primary victory, when candidate Dennis Daugaard just wanted to "go to the lake"? From the looks of the promptly updated state website, Governor Dennis Daugaard is still there (see header;…
Mitchell school superintendent Dr. Joseph Graves admits that he's ambivalent about Governor Dennis Daugaard's proposed summer study of education... which, for a guy who has flacked for the Governor's worst policy whims, could be read as stern condemnation. But I'm…
The New York Times reports that South Dakota is #4 among the "Terrible 10"... for regressive state and local taxes. According to data from a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the percentage of income that…
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