In March 2013, South Dakota officials received eight subpoenas from federal officials seeking information about the state's use of the EB-5 visa investment program. Two men central to that EB-5 program were former Governor's Office of Economic Development secretary and…
Posts published in November 2014
Senator Ted Cruz tells us that net neutrality would slow down the Internet like the Affordable Care Act is slowing down health care. (Two responses to Cruz's absurdity: net neutrality is not the ACA, and one survey finds appointment wait…
Now that we have some Democratic balls rolling, let's tell Judge Srtska he's wrong. Last week, retired judge Bill Srtska apparently floated an argument on Facebook that Initiated Measure, the indexed minimum wage increase that South Dakota voters wrote into…
There is something perverse about capitalism and the global economy when a shipping company suspends cargo runs from Minneapolis at the height of harvest. We have food, something human being needs every day, and big business would rather haul coal…
Yesterday I mentioned that a few groups are brewing up ideas to help the Democratic Party regain its footing in South Dakota. Among the party-building ideas I haven't mentioned yet is to take advantage of the energy of existing groups…
During his Senate campaign, candidate Mike Rounds insisted repeatedly that, as governor, he had no involvement with the "transactional details" of South Dakota's visa investment program. When asked by the Government Operations and Audit Committee who worked out the details…
Kent Alberty is one of my people. But even I have to cock an eyebrow at his characterization of the Sioux Falls School District's successful invasion and annexation of a new housing development near 12th Street and Ellis Road. The…