How I wish I could be in Aberdeen to join Ken Santema at the Legislative crackerbarrels! My Libertarian blogospheric colleague is providing excellent coverage of Legislative issues. Yesterday he got hold of a useful handout from Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen)…
Posts tagged as “gasoline”
Udpate 12:50 CST: My original post ignored a 3% wholesale tax imposed by Senate Bill 1. I have refigured my spreadsheet and adjusted the text here to include that new tax in this explanation. Wait a minute: did I call…
Senator John Thune is promising sanity in Washington. Not only does he say "We're not going to shut the government down" in the GOP's ongoing attacks on President Obama, but he offers the home folks (i.e., Dennis Daugaard) some cover…
The GOP spin machine is trying really hard to scare Republicans away from investing $100 million in South Dakota roads by calling "the single largest tax increase in state history." Pat Powers tries to lower expectations and deter support by…
What?! Kristi Noem still hasn't fixed the Highway Trust Fund? What do we pay our Congresswoman for? While Kristi's colleagues fiddle with short-term stopgaps to fill our potholes, a new study funded by the Soybean Transportation Coalition suggests that a…
...Lake Herman Toodles Along Online... Jonathan Ellis from that Sioux Falls newspaper writes a summary of South Dakota's open government practices for the Sunlight Foundation. He says South Dakota has a culture of treating government records as the property of…