Last December, reporter Bob Mercer asked Attorney General Marty Jackley to release records from the investigation of Richard Benda's unusual death. Mercer wanted the public to see those records to address widely circulating doubts about the validity of AG Jackley's…
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Two days before the first big all-candidate debate of the Republican Senate primary, a debate that will be held in front of a roomful of newspaperpeople and webcast live by the Spearfish and Sioux Falls papers, the South Dakota press…
The Senate Local Government Committee last week quite sensibly killed Senate Bill 33, Secretary of State Jason Gant's latest effort to suppress Indian voting. But now journalist Bob Mercer wants to resurrect it, out of concern that anonymous donors to…
Bob Mercer says South Dakota "got played as hicks again" when South Dakota ranchers and others forced Joan Jett off our Macy's Thanksgiving parade float. Mercer agrees with me that instead of embarrassing ourselves, we could have used a Joan…
Last month, Attorney General Marty Jackley acceded to public pressure and promised to allow two reporters to review documents from his investigation of the suspicious Ocotber 20 death of former economic development commissioner Richard Benda. Jackley conditioned that review on…
...or at least illness and mountain lion attacks. Earlier this year, Bob Mercer encouraged the corporate-fascist propaganda that opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline and Powertech in-situ uranium mine pose terrorist threats. Seemingly switching gears, in an opinion column last…
Blog attack! Pure Pierre Politics, Bob Mercer's read-worthy blog complement to his formal statewide reporting, is currently inaccessible. Mr. Mercer tells me that trouble started yesterday with some sort of server attack. The home domain for Mercer's blog, my605.com, appears…
On November 26, intrepid reporter Bob Mercer sent Attorney General Marty Jackley a public records request, which makes a strong case for opening the Richard Benda death investigation to public scrutiny. In response, AG Jackley agreed to open those records…