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More Minnesotans Get Health Insurance; ACA Reducing Uninsured Rate

David Montgomery left South Dakota last December for a better job in the Twin Cities. He now gets to report on Gallup numbers showing Minnesota's better rate of uninsured people: At the beginning of 2014, just 9.5 percent of Minnesotans…

SoDak Vo-Tech Scholarship Plan Small Potatoes Compared to Minn., Tenn., Obama

Governor Dennis Daugaard's new Build Dakota Scholarship for vocational-school students is a corporate welfare program whose primary aim is addressing a workforce shortage and providing select South Dakota industries with a captive labor pool. It will provide 300 scholarships over…

Gov. Dayton Shows Gov. Daugaard Proper Priorities: Education First!

Governor Dennis Daugaard opens the 2015 Session of the South Dakota Legislature on Tuesday, January 13, with his State of the State Address. Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota delivered his inaugural address Monday in St. Paul, the day before the…

Mid-America Business Conditions Index Shows South Dakota Sagging

Creighton University's Heider College of Business has issued its December 2014 Mid-America Business Conditions Index. Dr. Ernie Goss and his Creighton associations survey purchasing managers in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota. They index…

Higher Minimum Wage Does Not Deter Restaurant, Hotel Hiring

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…

SD Medicaid Denies Payment for Mayo Treatment; Patient Moves to MN

Here's the tough call of the morning. Jonathan Ellis reports that South Dakota implemented a new rule on September 1 requiring Medicaid patients to get authorization from the state to seek medical treatment more than 50 miles from South Dakota…