Regrets? Ha! Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, South Dakota just saved $9.1 million. Because of the failure of the free market, South Dakota created a high risk pool in 2003 to provide health insurance for people the death panels…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard offers a little good news for a minority of South Dakota college students but bad news for all Regental students. In the small good news, Governor Daugaard is willing to spend $1.274 million to increase the Opportunity…
David Montgomery says Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed a "modest" 2.5% increase in the FY 2016 budget because of a slow state economy: The cautious increase was spurred by a lukewarm economy. The state's revenue is growing slowly — not enough…
Governor Daugaard is increasing K-12 spending by 2%... or is he? The Governor is recommending a 2.0% inflationary increase to the base per student allocation for FY2016, which is 0.5% higher than the statutory required 1.5% increase for FY2016. This…
The summary of Governor Daugaard's recommended budget changes for Fiscal Year 2016 includes the following graphs comparing the growth in total state expenditures over the last ten years and the growth in certain spending subsets. These graphs show that Governor…
Bob Mercer follows up on his Wednesday list of legislator out-of-state travel reimbursements with a big Sunday feature on the Legislature's far-too-loose travel policy. Evidently the Legislature continues to slide away from rule of law and down into the arbitrary…
Mr. Ehrisman notices that David North of the Center for Immigration Studies has weighed in again on the GOED/NBP/EB-5 scandal that is occupying more of GOP Senate candidate Mike Rounds's time. North reviews David Montgomery's reporting from last November on…