Articles
SD education reforms plans advance
State panel gets updates on teacher, principal evaluation.
RELATED CONTENTState looks to hire video lottery consultant, price tag secret for now
Lottery staff gets green light to negotiate with Las Vegas firm.
RELATED CONTENTWharf gold mine to expand in Black Hills
Homestake retains 12 employees overseeing reclamation at its shuttered operation.
RELATED CONTENTChamberlain-Presho rail grant moves ahead
State tries again for money to rebuild line
RELATED CONTENTBet a penny, win $1,000 -- in theory
Lottery Commission wants to take caps off video prizes
RELATED CONTENTSale of Napa-Platte rail line nears
Target date set for approving transaction with development company
RELATED CONTENTTeaching organization under fire
Legislators, lobbyists oppose $250,000 given to group
RELATED CONTENTBrighter light to shine on big-project breaks
Tax refunds for business plans will be decided in public meetings
RELATED CONTENTSpecial lawmaker study panels set
Legislators selected for committees on K-12 funding and domestic violence
RELATED CONTENTColumns
MERCER: SD audit uncovers millions in misappropriated bank taxes
SD Revenue Department staff don't track down unexplained payments, state general fund shorted funds.
RELATED CONTENTMERCER: New regent Sutton has long record of good work
Sutton is only 44 but it seems like he’s been around forever getting things done. His latest role is the newest, and the youngest, member on the state Board of Regents.
RELATED CONTENTMERCER: Rounds’ early start appears quite smart
Mike now has a head start of six months on any other candidate -- if there ever is another candidate.
RELATED CONTENTMERCER: SD’s path on schools, taxes firmly set by GOP
PIERRE — South Dakota voters made four key decisions in the 18 months after the death of Gov. George S. Mickelson in the 1993 plane crash. Those decisions set the course for the next 20 years and brought us to where the state government is today.
RELATED CONTENTMERCER: Mickelson laid cornerstone for economic development
It wasn’t just farmers and ranchers in trouble. Main Streets were in desperate times, too. Mickelson understood that. His message didn’t just empathize with agriculture. He talked in a way different than any of the other Republicans or Democrats about how to build jobs.
RELATED CONTENTMERCER: The real tragedy of the 1993 crash was people knew and didn’t warn
FAA failed to order inspections on type of plane that crashed and killed SD gov after similar incident two years prior.
RELATED CONTENTMERCER: If you’re feeling pinched, look who’s pinching you
PIERRE -- Doesn’t it seem that property taxes and government fees and utility rates and tuition prices are going up left and right? Well, they are.
RELATED CONTENTMERCER: Problems on the prairie
2013 Legislative session illustrated deepening issues of rural South Dakota.
RELATED CONTENTMERCER: Sun shines brighter as business tax breaks to be open in SD
As recently as the winter of 2008-2009, the Rounds administration resisted revealing the names of the business projects that received permits under South Dakota’s construction-tax refund system.
RELATED CONTENTMERCER: 2013 session as logical as always
Want the really bad news from the 2013 session of the Legislature? Robo-calls remain legal for political purposes.
RELATED CONTENT
RSS Feeds