Suicides and grief on the reservation.
Towns want more money. Raising taxes to make it happen.
Good crop of snow in the cornfields makes life interesting.
New drivers licenses to make us look less funky (or not).
Tribal land mess continues. Tell me again how taxes help everyone.
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First he turns hisback on working Americans;
Senate Republicans predicted on Wednesday that the 40 members of their caucus would unanimously oppose health care reform despite changes made by Democratic leadership to make the product more palatable to conservatives.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) told the Huffington Post [...]
By Michael McConnell, Regional Director, American Friends Service Committee
For OpEdNews: Michael McConnell – Writer • December 3, 2009
If you were head of the U.S. government how would you spend $1 million of tax money?
You could send one soldier to Afghanistan. But that [...]
From my mailbox:
Thune Calls for TARP Termination, Not Endless Slush Fund
Only a fraction of the money from the $800 billion stimulus bill has been spent
WASHINGTON, DC —Senator John Thune today reiterated his support for terminating the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to prevent the Treasury Department from spending [...]
President Obama called for ideas on how to save the American government money. About 38,000 federal employees submitted ideas, with the best ones being used. The winner will win the SAVE Award (Securing America’s Value and Efficiency I think), get to meet President Obama, and have their idea put [...]
High-school friend of Sarah Palin shows up for Sioux Falls book signing.
Taxpayer’s money for tribes to create jobs.
Biggest cost of hunting? Time.
Bike trails and travails.
Tea Party in the Capitol (of South Dakota).
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That’s a lot of money for very little stimulation.
After South Dakota was promised “10,000″ jobs for all the federal government’s expensive stimulus… it looks like we’re about 7800 jobs short. And that’s if we count the people who kept their current jobs. Kevin Woster at the Rapid City Journal has [...]
Sibby is giving me a hard time about buying it, but since the SDCAC organization is completely defunct, and they didn’t feel like paying for it after spending all of their out-of-state special interest money on 2008’s Initiated Measure 10 (and/or on themselves) – I managed to get the following [...]
The global warming liars have made some really big money, thus making climategate a huge scandal:
Last year, ExxonMobil donated $7 million to a grab-bag of public policy institutes, including the Aspen Institute, the Asia Society and Transparency International. It also gave a combined $125,000 to the Heritage Institute and [...]
What part of “it is not the government’s money” is so hard to understand? Via Riehl World View:
Advocacy groups such as United for a Fair Economy have been plugging a higher estate tax rate and lower exemption as critical particularly given the state of the economy and need to [...]
I enjoy Seth Godin’s blog. He makes me think. I read what he says, than try to apply it to my life.
Reprinted below are today’s thoughtful words from “Watch the Money:”
“How much life insurance do you have?”
Zig Ziglar liked to say that with that [...]
While I think it is great that all of a sudden Rowenhorst and Munson are concerned about saving taxpayers money , this couldn’t be more suspicious. Remember the last time Dave did things in secret? Does the $1.5 million dollar, $3 million dollar [...]
South Dakota officials have reached an agreement that ends a legal dispute on whether a state lawmaker had to make public the name of an anonymous donor who gave $750,000 to an unsuccessful campaign supporting a proposed abortion ban in 2006.
Attorney General Marty Jackley, Secretary of [...]
Trafficking in children traced to Tea.
Increase utility costs by 12% (but not until after the holidays).
Herseth Sandlin says her vote on health care reform bill was all about the money.
Johnson fine with changes to health care reform bill as long as they are unsustainable.
[...]Dusty Harry Reid has adopted the classic philosophy of high pressure salemen: “Money talks, and no body walks.”
Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase.
On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of [...]
Is South Dakota Racing to the Top? Seems nobody knows. The education news is full of stories about states competing for the single largest amount of discretionary money ever directed toward education – 4.3 Billion dollars — but things are uncomfortably quiet here.
The Race to the Top [...] Because spending money on actual disease control and prevention would be so . . . plebian:
More than a decade after Congress cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), another federal health agency has been spending millions of dollars to study such topics [...]
The Daily Republic reported today that the clock is ticking on Davison County's use of nearly $8 million in low-interest money made available by the federal economic stimulus program. The money must be used by late next year, or it will be lost. So far, county commissioners have [...]
Watertown Finance Officer Tracy Turbak said funding several newly-hired firefighter positions poses a problem after grant money runs out. “So in about 2013 we’re going to have essentially five full-time positions on the city’s dollar with no grant funds involved,” he told the Finance Committee on Tuesday. “So that’s something [...]
