Governor Dennis Daugaard's State of the State Address can be boiled down to this family anecdote, delivered at the end of his lengthy opening discussion of his first policy priority, fixing South Dakota's roads: You know, just last week Linda…
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Chuck Clement reports that South Dakota gets a C-minus for K-12 education quality. Education Week remains unimpressed with our public school policies and performance, ranking us 40th in the nation. Our 69.6 on their hundred-point scale isn't much better than…
The Tax Foundation reminds us that South Dakota continues to stay afloat on red-state moocherism. Our conservative one-party state relies on the federal government for a greater percentage of its general revenues than all but three other states: South…
Last November, Tony Venhuizen told us that 2014 was Dennis Daugaard's last election. The Governor now confirms that statement, in not so many words, by announcing that he will support raising taxes to fix South Dakota's roads and bridges: During…
When incoming Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced she was hiring Brown County GOP chairman Jason Williams to serve as her public information officer, I wondered if she was expanding government to make room for what looked like a little…
That darned liberal Jerry Brown took away one of Dennis Daugaard's talking points when he erased California's budget deficit two years ago. What's California's governor up to now? Just like Governor Daugaard, Governor Brown has a balanced budget. Like Daugaard,…
In my summary of Senate Bill 1, the big road-fixing, fuel-taxing bill, I mentioned that the bill exempts aviation fuel from a new 3% wholesale tax. Incurable snark that I am (maybe SAB Biotherapeutics can engineer a shot for that),…
South Dakota lawyers got a raise from the state on January 1, just like our minimum wage workers. The state just raised the hourly rate for public defenders from $87 to $90. This order from Second Circuit Judge Larry Long…