Family Dollar plans to close about 5% of its 8,100 stores, leaving 370 empty concrete boxes littered across the country. Cheap plastic junk will continue to pour from so many other outlets that the economy will hardly notice. My only…
Posts tagged as “Aberdeen”
(In today's Freudian slip, I first type White Oaf.) White Oak Global Advisors from San Francisco announced yesterday that it finalized its acquisition of Northern Beef Packers in Aberdeen. White Oak's press release (text below, as prepared by Sioux Falls…
In the Nobody Wins Department, Judge Eugene Dobberpuhl has denied Patricia Black's request for a permanent protection order against her husband, Division of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Black. To make her case and justify a temporary restraining order in February,…
Suspended Department of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Black and aggrieved ex-wife Patricia Black had a day in court yesterday. Patricia Black filed for a protection order against her ex last month, accusing him of violent, threatening behavior. Mark Black admits…
In January 2013, Judge Gene Paul Kean dismissed the state's flimsy case against of Shirley Schwab and Brandon Taliaferro for witness tampering and other charges. Last December, Judge Kean ordered the expungement five of the counts on which Taliaferro was…
Scott Waltman reports that DCI agent Mark Black is temporarily out of a job: An Aberdeen-based state Division of Criminal Investigation agent whose former wife is seeking a protection order against him has been put on administrative leave, Attorney General…
A South Dakota state law enforcement officer faces a protection order for harassing his ex-wife. On February 13, 2014, Patricia Ann Black of Aberdeen asked the court to keep her ex-husband Mark Robert Black away from her. Mark Black is…
Hat tip to David Newquist for irony of the week! Joop Bollen has made a living by coordinating government intrusions in the marketplace. For nearly twenty years, as director of the South Dakota International Business Institute under the Board of…