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…
Posts tagged as “infrastructure”
Governor Dennis Daugaard deserves all the guff we can give him for reneging on his no-new-taxes promise to consider a gasoline-tax increase. Acknowledging that we don't spend enough on our roads and bridges is an important repudiation of the Republican…
CNBC takes away South Dakota's #1 ranking for business, and KELO-AM's Greg Belfrage, who inclines Daugaard-ward more than I, says our drop from #1 to #11 may say "less about South Dakota than it does about the accuracy and reliability…
Billings, Montana, wants to be better. It wants to be like Sioux Falls. Billings economic development boss Steve Arveschoug and other interested Billingsians visited our eastern Queen City last month to divine our "secret sauce". What do they think makes…
My friend Douglas Wiken reminds us how dangerous South Dakota's highways are for pedestrians. Nationwide, pedestrian deaths are increasing just a little: In 1975, more than 7,500 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents across the US. By 2009, the figure…
(In an alternate universe where I live in town and can win elections...) Mayor Lindsay (pounding gavel following raucous discussion of Crazy/Discovery Day): We turn now to New Business, Item 1, Resolution 2013-23, "A resolution to establish a special maintenance…
I get back to Madison, and things go from bad to worse. Let's not jump to conclusions.... The Madison City Commission meets Monday night to consider a revamped special maintenance fee to generate additional money for street repairs. This is…
From the local finance department, Gale Pifer reports that the City of Madison is spending less money this year than last: Despite increases in water, sewer and electric bills this year, the city of Madison's 2013 operating budget is actually…