U.S. PIRG ranks states for offering online access to state budget data. How'd South Dakota score? D+ for us. Our online state checkbook shows what we're spending and whom we're paying. You can search the database by vendor and by…
Posts tagged as “technology”
The Pew Internet and American Life Project some new studies out. "How the Public Perceives Community Information Systems" looks at how Americans feel about their ability to get and use information about their communities from their local governments and media.…
Dennis Daugaard is viewed by some as a CEO-style governor. But the man who came in second to Daugaard in last year's GOP primary, Scott Munsterman, is also in Pierre making some managerial noises. Back-cracker, former mayor, and now State…
Jon Hunter and I will disagree on this bill: House Bill 1078 would allow municipalities, counties, and school districts to publish their minutes, bids, and other official documents on an officially designated website in addition to or instead of in…
As I consider the Madison Chamber's ambitious goal to boost sales more than 50%, and as I read the I-29 Corridor regional development stategy, I find an article that suggests a route for industrial recruitment that could support both local…
I wanted to read some more about our eighth-graders' performance on South Dakota's annual Technology Literacy Assessment, which I mentioned briefly Sunday.The article in Sunday's edition of that Sioux Falls paper headlined that two-fifths of our eighth-graders failed to score…
Start a new Legislative session, and I'm bound to miss some other news. Among stories of note this week: Citizen Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is taking a seat on the governing board of the Innovation Campus in Brookings, the town she…
Every year I enjoy publishing a list of top stories for the coming year, ten things I hope I'll get to blog about in the New Year. A look at last year's list shows that I actually got one of…