While Pat Powers shouts with capital letters to distract us from his embarrasing silence on the GOED/SDRC/EB-5/Benda/Rounds investigations, I'm reading various documents relating to the case. Among them is a perhaps trivial remark that speaks volumes about the attitude of…
In what is likely a long-planned response to the GOED/EB-5/Rounds/Benda scandal (anyone ready to come up with a -gate name for this story?), Marion Michael Rounds is now launching Operation Plausible Deniability. He tells David Montgomery that helping foreigners buy…
Jerry Heckenliable's going to hate this program. Heartland Consumers Power District is touting its Energy One incentive program to new businesses in Madison and its other customer communities. Basically, if a new company moves in and adds a megawatt or…
The SDGOP Platform Accountability project, which can't be held accountable since they remain anonymous, thinks it's a big deal that former state economic development chief Richard Benda, who died under as-yet unexplained circumstances last week, contributed money to Marion Michael…
My Chinese is worse than Mike Rounds's. But luckily for Rounds and China, everybody speaks dollar. The Chinese state news office archives this article from July 2009 showing then-Governor Rounds, his economic development chief Richard Benda, and EB-5 visa hustler…
You know that federal investigation of the South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development? It appears they are looking where I thought they'd be looking: Dennis Hellwig, who stepped down as Northern Beef Packers’ general partner more than four years…
Open the speculation floodgates.... Governor Dennis Daugaard announced today that Attorney General Marty Jackley and federal law enforcement have been investigating the Governor's Office of Economic Development for financial misconduct. Not his Office of Economic Development, Daugaard emphasizes, but someone…
This blog isn't afraid to critique its print media friends, but it also has no problem pointing out exceptional reporting (the kind of reporting that makes me at least a little bit envious of those who devote their careers to…
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