GUEST EDITORIALS
ROZUM: State looking at sales tax, public safety
The House Tax Committee heard two bills dealing with sales tax this week. The perennial bill to remove state sales tax from food and increase state sales tax on everything else to 4.35 percent failed, as did a bill to increase state sales tax across the board from 4 percent to 5 percent.
By Tona Rozum , February 15, 2013
VEHLE: Teen driving bills aim at alarming statistics
Support withdrawn from coyote spotlight legislation.
By Mike Vehle , February 13, 2013
OPINION: SD legislation would give away public property
Now comes 2013, and along with it a bill to completely reverse the work our ancestors went through to ensure the rights of our citizens to protect and to use the public resources they own.
By Bill Antonides , February 11, 2013
ROZUM: Safety is bigger than sentinels
Current bill not best way to secure schools.
By Tona Rozum , February 06, 2013
VEHLE: Ag liens, equine dentistry among legislation to receive consideration
However, there are several topics that are important to people and do not get lots of attention.
By Mike Vehle , February 06, 2013
THUNE: VA secretary should work with Hot Springs community to continue Care
In Pine Ridge for example, veterans worry that without access to the Hot Springs VA they will have to rely on the already overburdened Indian Health Service.
By John Thune , February 05, 2013
NOEM: Importance of town halls
Concern over our mounting national debt was always one of the first topics of conversation.
By Kristi Noem , February 05, 2013
DAUGAARD: Support military families
The bill will streamline the process so that a military spouse with a license or certificate in another state can easily transfer into South Dakota.
By Dennis Daugaard , February 05, 2013
OPINION: SD farmers work to feed the world, take care of environment
It was President Dwight D. Eisenhower who said, “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from a corn field.”
By Mark Gross , January 31, 2013
OPINION: E-meetings should be open
Bill matches up technology, transparency.
By Tim Waltner , January 28, 2013
GOV: Work together to improve public safety
Our state locks up more people, per capita, than any of our bordering states.
By Gov. Dennis Daugaard , January 25, 2013
THUNE: Time to reform the broken food stamp program
The enrollment of such a large number of Americans in the food stamp program has come at an extremely high cost to taxpayers.
By Sen. John Thune , January 24, 2013
OPINION: Bill bolsters coverage of high school sports by SD’s news media
Some schools are now putting restrictions and limitations on how the local news media can cover their school sporting events and activities. There is a real trend toward more monetization of high school sports.
By DAVID BORDEWYK , January 24, 2013
VEHLE: Feds use ‘gun to head’ approach
None of us liked the fact that the federal government said if we do not change our laws to comply with its rules, that we would lose 5 percent of our highway funds the first year and 10 percent of those funds every year thereafter.
By Mike Vehle , January 24, 2013
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