Referred Law 14, the Large Project Development Fund, grants Governor Daugaard and his Board of Economic Development appointees unchecked power to disburse 22% of all contractors excise tax to their friends in big business. Sure to figure in the discussion…
David Allen wants to replace Gary Hanson on the Public Utilities Commission. The Yankton electrical contractor expresses a healthy concern about corporate power in government and wants to focus on protecting South Dakotans' pocketbooks. Allen, a Democrat, has run for…
Friend of the blog Lanny Stricherz offers this guest column to explain that GOP Senate candidate Mike Rounds and Governor Dennis Daugaard own a record of economic development failure and corruption much larger than the EB-5 scandal. * * *…
Friend of the blog Lanny Stricherz tells me that the Watertown Public Opinion was going to charge him $100 to print his letter to the editor, because it was a political letter. Apparently money really is speech... or, more accurately…
In conjunction with its annual conference in Deadwood last month, the South Dakota Telecommunications Association hosted a forum with four of the five candidates for Public Utilities Commission. I would have loved to have covered the meeting live, as I…
Asked why she's skipping the traditional State Fair debate, hosted this year by the South Dakota Farmers Union, Rep. Kristi Noem answers with a typical run-on sentence: We're still considering debates and looking at them but we're going to make…
As usual, Dakota War College, the fake-named tool of the South Dakota Republican Party Central Committee, ignores the issues in talking about candidates. Pretending in vain to be a real blogger who does real research, Tim Rave's mouthpiece prints a…
Public Utilities Commission candidate Matt McGovern has more expertise on energy policy issues than his opponent Commissioner Kristie Fiegen did when Governor Dennis Daugaard handed her the job in 2011. Now McGovern may have discovered a non-energy wedge issue that…
Can't find what you're looking for? Try refining your search:
