Open the speculation floodgates.... Governor Dennis Daugaard announced today that Attorney General Marty Jackley and federal law enforcement have been investigating the Governor's Office of Economic Development for financial misconduct. Not his Office of Economic Development, Daugaard emphasizes, but someone…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard has accepted the Interior Department's offer to let states pay for reopening certain national parks and monuments. However, as I suspected, Governor Daugaard doesn't think Mount Rushmore is important enough to spend South Dakota tax dollars on.…
I feel a bluff getting called. Governor Dennis Daugaard has offered to use "state personnel and resources" to keep Mount Rushmore open during the partial federal government shutdown. The National Park Service has said no, thank you, saying that the…
It seems as though someone plotting Republican strategy in Washington, D.C., is sketching out the same strategies on responding to the federal government shutdown as Gov. Dennis Daugaard this week. Monday, for the third time in the last three years,…
Michael Larson offers excellent arguments for expanding Medicaid. He urges us to help Governor Dennis Daugaard make the right choice and take the Medicaid assistance the Affordable Care Act is offering. O.K. Check out this chart, Dennis: Paul Krugman pulls…
The D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery is hosting a book signing on Wednesday, September 18. As a warm-up for the South Dakota Festival of Books, several authors will come to the Hatchery to sign copies of their books, including the Booth…
Rereading background on the Dan Willard robocall trial reminds me of some legal housekeeping our Legislature did for the Governor last winter. You will recall that, when Governor Dennis Daugaard started banging the drum for an investigation of the spate…
So much for Indian-White reconciliation. Earlier this month Judge Karen Schreier dismissed Brooks v. Gant, an Indian voting-rights lawsuit brought by residents of the Pine Ridge reservation. The dismissal came only because the filing of the lawsuit forced Secretary of…