Corporate welfare rolls on in South Dakota. Less than a month after announcing a $50-million partnership with billionaire T. Denny Sanford to fund vo-tech scholarships, Governor Dennis Daugaard is kicking some more state money back toward the Sanford professional family.…
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Rep. Kristi Noem retools Mike Rounds's "South Dakota common sense" mantra to say the the economy would be fine if the feds just did things the way South Dakota does. Her weekly column cites the new French cheese plant as…
Madville Times Legislative Proposals: MTB 101: Hemp MTB 102: Legislature MTB 103: Taxes MTB 104: Education MTB 105: Unicameral/Redistricting Madville Times readers share my concern about the need for more funding for education. There are numerous ways to increase that…
Rep. Peggy Gibson published a list of the state's handouts to now-bankrupt Northern Beef Packers in the Huron Plainsman last week. Her numbers match Scott Waltman's July report in the Aberdeen American News on that state aid. Here are the…
We still don't have a Farm Bill because Rep. Kristi Noem thinks we have to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) by $40 billion over the next ten years. Six years of those cuts will equal…
Here's a tricky question for Hanson County's Rep. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton). Last March he voted against Senate Bill 235, the omnibus legislation that retooled the state's economic development program. This month, under that enacted legislation, Rep. Nelson's county seat, Alexandria,…
Michael Larson finds an embarrassing indication of the quality of oversight in South Dakota's corporate welfare program. Adams Thermal Systems of Canton received two $50,000 economic development grants from the Governor's Future Fund in September and November, 2011. Governor Dennis…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says South Dakota doesn't have the money to expand Medicaid. Besides, if anyone should get welfare, it's children and the disabled, not able-bodied adults. 3M must be run by kids in wheelchairs: 3M announced Wednesday it will…