Who says I can't celebrate Christmas? I observe the holiday with a poem for South Dakota Magazine. Here's the first stanza of my meditation on the Build Dakota Scholarship: Check out the full poem at South Dakota Magazine. Merry Christmas,…
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The new Build Dakota vo-tech scholarship that Governor Dennis Daugaard and usury-billionaire T. Denny Sanford want to create is based on the argument that not enough South Dakota youngsters are going to vo-tech schools. The scholarship further assumes that if…
South Dakotans making minimum wage, you get a raise in ten days. Happy New Year, and you're welcome! The Chicken Littles who warn that we heartless liberals (apparently that's 55.05% of South Dakotans) are going to hurt the poor by…
Governor Dennis Daugaard is proposing a juvenile corrections reform package that will impose net new costs on the state of about $2.9 million. The proposal doesn't seem like a bad idea. But may I suggest a policy alternative... or better…
The South Dakota Budget and Policy Project has just issued a report analyzing the impact of Initiated Measure 18, the ballot proposal to increase South Dakota's minimum wage. The highlights that should inform your vote: 64,000 South Dakotans will get…
A couple weeks ago, I mashed together some population and jobs numbers and calculated that South Dakota may undercount unemployment on our American Indian reservations by 57,000, or more than ten percentage points. Today I turn to some locally processed…