South Dakota is spending less money on Medicaid than expected this fiscal year. Whether this unexpected underspending is related to the record low rate of growth of health care spending under the Obama Administration is open to discussion. Whatever the…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard's budget proposal includes a new Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Initiative. A major part of the plan is to reduce the frequency and length of residential placements of juvenile offenders—i.e., put more kids on probation instead of yanking them…
Governor Dennis Daugaard offers a little good news for a minority of South Dakota college students but bad news for all Regental students. In the small good news, Governor Daugaard is willing to spend $1.274 million to increase the Opportunity…
David Montgomery says Governor Dennis Daugaard proposed a "modest" 2.5% increase in the FY 2016 budget because of a slow state economy: The cautious increase was spurred by a lukewarm economy. The state's revenue is growing slowly — not enough…
In most states, governors would read winning over 70% of the vote for a second term as a mandate for bold, visionary leadership. In South Dakota, such a "mandate" gets us what Republican Senator Tim Rave (R-25/Baltic) calls a "vanilla…
Governor Daugaard is increasing K-12 spending by 2%... or is he? The Governor is recommending a 2.0% inflationary increase to the base per student allocation for FY2016, which is 0.5% higher than the statutory required 1.5% increase for FY2016. This…
The summary of Governor Daugaard's recommended budget changes for Fiscal Year 2016 includes the following graphs comparing the growth in total state expenditures over the last ten years and the growth in certain spending subsets. These graphs show that Governor…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's push for more mega-dairies has drawn legal action against Brookings County from Hendricks, Minnesota. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that the Hendricks City Council has "filed a lawsuit" against Brookings County to stop the 3,999-head concentrated animal feeding…