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Posts tagged as “EB-5”

Most House Republicans Oppose South Dakota Ethics Commission

Can't get permanent Daylight Saving Time, can't get an Ethics Commission... do we have to initiate everything?! The South Dakota House decided Wednesday that a statewide Ethics Commission is a bad idea. Democrats had proposed not even a bill, just…

Banking Commission Still Investigating SDRC Inc.

In the "No News Is Bad News" Department, I was wondering if the South Dakota Banking Commission had ever ruled on whether SDRC Inc., the controversial Aberdeen company into which Joop Bollen privatized his state duties as EB-5 visa investment…

BBC Profiles Karen Workers at Huron Turkey Plant

It's –7°F in Huron this morning. Who'd give up tropical sunshine for weather like that? Political refugees from Burma/Myanmar, that's who. The Karen people are an ethnic group from Southeast Asia. About 50,000 have come to America to escape political…

Rep. Gibson Calls for State Ethics Commission

Rep. Peggy Gibson (D-22/Huron) is ready to do some serious work in Pierre this session. Responding to her legislative colleagues' inaction on the EB-5 scandal, Rep. Gibson writes in last Wednesday's Plainsman that South Dakota needs an ethics commission to…