South Dakotans spanked Governor Dennis Daugaard hard at the polls Tuesday, overturning two of his signature pieces of legislation with resounding No votes on Referred Laws 14 and 16. Predictably, Governor Daugaard denies that any such thing happened. He says…
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...but not the folks who vote for those bad policies. Governor Dennis Daugaard's director of policy and communications Tony Venhuizen said last night that it was "Not a great election for Republicans nationally. But it's shaping up to be a…
I'm hearing rumblings about the Daugaard Administration's ill treatment of our great State Library system. After harsh budget cuts, the State Library may see more of its funding disappear to cover the increased costs of the Governor's bad K-12 education…
With Judge Mark Barnett throwing out a lawsuit against Governor Daugaard's SD WINS program, the Governor can go ahead with his efforts to pay an out-of-state company millions of dollars to convince talented workers to move back to South Dakota.…
Mr. Montgomery brings us Governor Daugaard's first campaign video of 2012. He smiles, walks around the farm with his hands aw-shucks-little-ol'-me in his pockets, leans on a fence in the warm reflective glow of the camera crew's panels, and tells…
Right in the midst of Kristi Noem's School-Lunch-a-Palooza, somebody declares National School Lunch Week. And what does Kristi's fellow Republican Dennis Daugaard? He whips out his gubernatorial pen and declares the National School Lunch Program wonderful. The Department of Education…
The newest Dakota Poll finds that Governor Dennis Daugaard could get three black eyes at the polls next month. The phone survey of 400 likely South Dakota voters, conducted September 29 and 30, finds the Governor's two signature pieces of…