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Posts tagged as “Dennis Daugaard”

Governor Promotes Small-Town Economic Development; Economist Questions Viability

Governor Dennis Daugaard is getting around to the small-town economic development program he talked about during last year's campaign. At the Governor's Economic Development Conference Tuesday and Wednesday, Governor Daugaard and his economic development commissioner Pat Costello spoke of their…

Daugaard Challenges Teabag Health Care Referral

There are two referral movements afoot in South Dakota. Democrats are gathering signatures to refer Governor Dennis Daugaard's economic development grant program (also known as futile corporate welfare) to a public vote in 2012. Teabaggers are gathering signatures to refer…

Salesman-in-Chief Daugaard Won’t Cut Dairy Promotion

At peril of making my friend Kelsey angrier, an eager reader from my vast dairy audience (you'd be surprised) draws my attention to an April 11 Dairy Star interview with "hardscrabble dairy farm" boy turned Governor Dennis Daugaard. His grandparents…

Rounds-Daugaard Budget Cuts Jobs, Programs at SDSU

Well, at least we still have D-I football.... Over one hundred well-trained professionals are having a harder time this morning explaining why they would want to live in South Dakota. Our flagship university and my alma mater, South Dakota State…

Daugaard Increases Spending on Corporate Welfare

As South Dakota Democrats collect signatures to put Governor Dennis Daugaard's myopic and ineffective corpoate handouts to a public vote in 2012, Bob Mercer notes that the governor's math justifying the handouts is a little off: The Daugaard administration also…

Daugaard Opens Valhalla

How's that for a Viking headline of mythical proportions? Governor Daugaard, I'm still mad about your ax-murderer budget. I'm going to stay mad, especially if I end up on the school board having to deal with the mess you and…

School Funding Cuts Ruled Unconstitutional… in New Jersey

A judge in New Jersey has ruled that Governor Chris Christie's deep cuts in state aid to education this year are unconstitutional. According to Judge Peter Doyne, cutting state aid $800 million, to $10 billion, fails to maintain and support…

ACLU Joins Planned Parenthood to Overturn New SD Abortion Restrictions

Following Governor Dennis Daugaard's signing of HB 1217, the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota has announced it will join Planned Parenthood in suing to overturn this egregious violation of women's medical privacy and their access to a legal…