Senator Stan Adelstein (R-32/Rapid City) sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee. When he gets his hands on House Bill 1060, the bill adding millions of dollars to this year's state budget, expect a little ruckus. Senator Adelstein has noticed the…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard's French cheese subsidy passed its first hurdle yesterday. Near the top of House Bill 1060, the big pile of revisions to this year's state budget, is an additional five million dollars in "operating expenses" for the Governor's…
The House State Affairs Committee meets tomorrow morning to consider House Bill 1161, an apparently bipartisan measure to provide economic development grants. Prime sponsor and House majority whip Rep. Scott Munsterman (R-7/Brookings) is joined at the top of the bill…
In the Conservative-Only-When-We-Want-to-Be Department, Gordon Howie proves that even the arch-est conservative caves to crony-corporate the 1%'s objectives. He calls on Washington to protect tax subsidies for Big Oil and protection for corporations shipping operations overseas: Recently, a group of…
Chamber of Commerce members say the darndest things. Today's laugh line comes from David Owen, president of the South Dakota Chamber, discussing his disappointment with the failure of Referred Law 14, Governor Dennis Daugaard's corporate welfare plan: The biggest problem…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's mouth has been writing checks that his electorate won't cash. Bob Mercer reports that Governor Daugaard lured Bel Brands (based in France!) to Brookings with an open-ended promise of corporate welfare worth at least $4.5 million. Daugaard…
The Mitchell Daily Republic editorial board is really bad at political arguments. They have endorsed Referred Law 14, Governor Dennis Daugaard's "Large Project Development Fund, based entirely on hopes and wishes. The Mitchell editors acknowledge the very clear problem of…