Jim Bolin

Many state lawmakers are skeptical of DSS projections for Medicaid expansion in the 2025 fiscal year.

The legislative executive board met this week, and one piece of the docket was the budget and expenditures of state government.

Public defense reform has made it out of the statehouse with the passage of HB1057.

South Dakota’s counties, which receive no sales tax revenue, suffer a chronic lack of funding for services. With some lawmakers fundamentally opposed to any possible tax raise, how can the state square a very real funding shortfall?

South Dakota teachers are near the bottom of the national pay scale - only earning more than their peers in Mississippi and West Virginia. As a result, some have started taking a hard look at their paychecks.

More than a decade after his retirement from the Board of Regents, Tad Perry holds the title of longest-serving state higher education executive officer in the nation. He spent 15 years overseeing the state's public universities and founded the South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship.

In The Moment … July 27, 2020 Show 867 Hour 2Jim Bolin is a retired educator and hopes to win your vote for re-election to the South Dakota State Senate.…

The Senate Education Committee unanimously passes a bill to allow for the creation of community-based schools centered on Native American language and…

Senate Bill 49…what is it? What does it mean? Why is it necessary? Is this discrimination? These are questions South Dakotans are asking themselves. On Thursday, the Senate Educati

In The Moment ... January 23, 2019 Show 500 Hour 1Senate Bill 49 declares void the transgender procedures that was adopted by the South Dakota High School…