Republicans trying to deflect criticism of Senator-Elect Mike Rounds for his scandalous EB-5 visa investment program have often brought up an analogy to President Obama and the Solyndra affair. But it turns out the Department of Energy's loan program created…
Posts published in November 2014
EB-5 czar Joop Bollen's response to the Government Operations and Audit Committee's inquiry into his activities on behalf of the State of South Dakota is rich with innuendo, insult, and absurdity. The greatest absurdity packed into his literary fabrication is…
Whoo-hoo! Scott Meyer and friends are beginning to post videos from last month's TEDxBrookings event! Here's my talk on blogging, identity, and community in South Dakota: I know many of you love text as much as I do, so here's…
Among the highlights from the Government Operations and Audit Committee hearing happening right now on the EB-5 scandal, Board of Regents exec Jack Warner provides the first direct answer we've heard as to why the state didn't fire EB-5 czar…
As the Government Operations and Audit Committee sifts through the doublespeak and shifting narratives they have received from Joop Bollen, Mike Rounds, and everyone else in state government about the EB-5 program, they should consider the commentary of Aberdeen city…
Like Best Darn Guns' customers, Pat Powers appears to be blinded by appearances. Powers imagines checked-bloused Rep. Kristi Noem galloping across a pasture on her trusty steed and declares Rep. Kristi Noem "tremendous on the stump." He also posits that…
In somewhat better local economic news, Madison's movie theater is reopening next week. Owner Todd Frager shut the West Twin Theater down at the beginning of October to give the place its first real renovation since it opened back in…
The Governor's Office of Economic Development and Madison's Lake Area Improvement Corporation score another coup, bringing Iowa sexy bra manufacturer Best Darn Guns (should a company really force us to swear?) to town: In a brilliant example of vertical (or…