The GOP spin machine is trying really hard to scare Republicans away from investing $100 million in South Dakota roads by calling "the single largest tax increase in state history." Pat Powers tries to lower expectations and deter support by…
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On the bright side, the State of South Dakota is willing to fight big money... when it means keeping money in state coffers. Bob Mercer noted Tuesday (and Governor Daugaard in his budget address did not) that the state could…
Larry Pressler's pipeline plan is already rolling. The Dakota Access oil pipeline would ship Bakken oil from North Dakota to Patokia, Illinois, refineries. Thirty inches wide and moving 450,000 barrels per day, Dakota Access would match the first Keystone pipeline…
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…
The Legislature's Ag Land Assessment Task Force gets me to notice a tiny portion of our agricultural land assessment rules that show South Dakota thinking like Earl Butz, telling farmers to get big or get out... of agricultural land classification.…
Now that we have some Democratic balls rolling, let's tell Judge Srtska he's wrong. Last week, retired judge Bill Srtska apparently floated an argument on Facebook that Initiated Measure, the indexed minimum wage increase that South Dakota voters wrote into…
KELO puts the cart before the horse with this strange headline: Improved Roads Could Mean More Taxes Brief review of causality, Mr. Schaffhauser: We pay taxes. Government uses those taxes to improve roads. If we pay more taxes, we can…
As we wait for the South Dakota Division of Banking to determine whether Joop Bollen should have been paying bank franchise tax on the money he made fleecing foreign investors, an eager reader finds a hint that Bollen's boon companion…