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Frustration
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010We were proud of a few things this legislative session. One matter of interest was the adoption of a needs-based scholarship program for our South Dakota college students. The measure, House Bill 1240, was really championed by House Democratic Leader…
What’s In a Name
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010On Tuesday the Senate decided to reinvent the definition of state employees. For years we have used “FTEs” which stands for : “full time equivalent”, or one full time employee. The Republicans are very sensitive about how they have grown…
Political Life in Pierre
Monday, March 1st, 2010One of the annoying facts of political life in Pierre is that many of the good ideas come from the Democratic Party, are defeated, and then are reborn as Republican ideas. That was certainly true of our open government initiative…
Silence
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Last week in the legislature I proposed Senate Bill 144, which would have restrained the growth of government at the state level to 3% or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. This is the standard that Pierre imposes on…
Unsustainable
Monday, February 1st, 2010We just finished our third week of the legislative session, and we are already 1/3rd done! We start our 13th legislative day today, and this is our 38 day session. The Democrats announced our plan to balance the budget, and…
