A new report from the Tax Foundation finds that in 2011, South Dakotans enjoyed the third-lowest state and local tax burden as a percentage of per capita income in the nation: South Dakota's state/local tax burden actually dropped 0.7 percentage…
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Yesterday Bob Mercer and the GOP spin machine called for resurrecting Senate Bill 33, the Indian Voter Suppression Act, with an amendment to require that private groups who fund voting stations and other elections administration activities reveal their funding sources.…
Mr. Ehrisman ventures east for the 10th annual AM950 Blue State Ball in Minneapolis, gets some face time with Senator Al Franken, and finds some sympathy from the progressive devils: The common feedback we received is how South Dakota seems…
The annual Atlas Van Lines moving survey gives an estimate of each state's net migration. South Dakota beat Minnesota in the ratio of folks moving in versus folks moving out, but both states lost more than they gained: In Minnesota,…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's FY2015 budget proposal includes a boost to this fiscal year's corrections budget of $4 million. The Governor says we need to pump $4 million more into our prisons to fix a "correctional healthcare shortfall" arising from "significant…
That Sioux Falls paper summarizes the South Dakota results of the Municipal Equality Index, a nationwide survey of municipal laws, policies, and services respecting and protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents and employees. Of five South Dakota metros surveyed,…
An eager reader submits this report on eighth-grade math scores. Researchers at the National Center for Education Statistics converted scores on the NAEP, a test commonly used in the United States, to align with the TIMSS, a test more commonly…
Pierre has been too busy tooting its own horn about ad hoc funding for Mount Rushmore to shout much about the Tax Foundation's latest low-tax propaganda declaring South Dakota great for business and Minnesota awful due to state tax policy.…