Jumping to the gubernatorial contest, Democratic candidate Joe Lowe endorses one very specific policy: expand Medicaid! A former mayor of Mission Viejo, a community of 100,000 people in southern California, Lowe is critical of the current administration’s failure to expand…
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Ryan Casey gave a rousing speech to the Sioux Falls Rotary Club on Monday. My somewhat biased source (o.k., Ryan himself) says the speech unsettled the Sioux Falls complacentariat... which makes it my kind of speech. Casey's whole text is…
John Tsitrian writes the most interesting Republican blog in South Dakota. Instead of recycling the handouts from party uppity-ups, Tsitrian provides original content, the kind of home-grown research and analysis that makes the South Dakota Blogosphere worth reading and discussing.…
District 13 Senate candidate Reynold Nesiba shows his ability to lead the conversation all Democrats should have to win back the Legislature this year. Candidate and economist Nesiba talks cold hard cash and the millions South Dakota's spite-blinded Republicans are…
The Building South Dakota Fund, the new economic development fund created in closed negotiations and a rush of last-minute Legislative action, had safeguards to ensure that, in tight budget times, education, health care, and pay for state workers would take…
Habemus budget! The South Dakota Legislature passed Senate Bill 187, the general appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2014, and got the heck out of town at 8 p.m. last night. David Montgomery does fine work spreadsheeting the numerous budget amendments…
Ronald Fuchs should be the face of the Medicaid expansion debate in South Dakota. The Mitchell man is a regular guy, age 63, suffering from various maladies that make it hard for him to work. Still, he can't get disability…
House Bill 1040 is one of the most tedious reads in the Legislative hopper. But it's probably one of the more important reads, since it tells us how far over and under our Legislature was in appropriating funds for state…