Madville Times

I voted for Initiated Measure 15 , the extra-penny sales tax to fund K-12 education and Medicaid. I'm not deeply enamored with IM15. The...

Speaking of the budget , I learn from KJAM that the man making the state budget, Governor-Elect Dennis Daugaard, swung through Madison to a...

I noted last week that my current employer, the South Dakota Board of Regents, is projected to receive $54 million more in federal funding ...

Good grief: if Dakota War College keeps slacking off, will I have to start getting my news from Gordon Howie's wingnut blog ? That'...

This week, reporter Bob Mercer declared that Governor Mike Rounds's effort to realize Bill Janklow's vision of converting the Homest...

Please tell me Kristi Noem and John Thune won't send this money back: Governor Rounds's budget proposal has Uncle Sam giving $54 mil...

What's wrong with Governor Rounds's proposed budget for education ? Aside from the usual GOP view of education as expense rather tha...

The Madison Daily Leader gets three of our local superintendents on the record about Governor Rounds's proposed 5% cut to state aid fo...

Senator Jason Frerichs (D-Wilmot) opens politely by thanking the governor for his service. But then he goes right to saying that we need to ...

Governor M. Michael Rounds is in the State Capitol and on SDPB right now telling us how he'd screw education if he were around for anot...

Yesterday the Associated School Boards of South Dakota called on the Legislature to follow the law and increase K-12 education funding by 1....

Governor-Elect Dennis Daugaard is leading by example: he announced yesterday that he will cut his own pay ten percent when he takes office ...

The co-chairs of the President's fiscal reform commission , especially former Republican Senator from Wyoming Alan Simpson , are straigh...

South Dakota GOP candidate for governor Dennis Daugaard must be reading too much War College. Daugaard apparently believes the propaganda th...

Patricia Stricherz , candidate for District 8 House, forwards the Madville Times her responses to a questionnaire from the Mitchell Daily R...

Republican less-government platitutdes notwithstanding, South Dakota remains a welfare state. Mr. Woodring draws my attention to a report ...

Seantor John Thune spoke to the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce yesterday about his proposal that Congress move to biennial budgeting . Cong...

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office expresses concern (as ought we all) over continuing growth of our national debt-to-GDP ra...

Madison Central School District publishes its proposed budget in Thursday's paper. Extracurriculars take up 3.2% of $11.3 million in tot...

Funny that for all their fretting about the public debt, the conservative crowd rarely advocates we take personal responsibility for all tha...