Can't get permanent Daylight Saving Time, can't get an Ethics Commission... do we have to initiate everything?! The South Dakota House decided Wednesday that a statewide Ethics Commission is a bad idea. Democrats had proposed not even a bill, just…
Posts tagged as “EB-5”
Various observers have raised concerns that South Dakota's use of the EB-5 visa investment program may have opened our doors to Chinese spies and mafia. Now, two years after Iowa Senator Charles Grassley started beating the drum about the possible…
Mr. Mercer notes that Speaker Wink's constitutional conflict-of-interest excuse for firing Democratic House caucus secretary Kathy Tyler lies in the same topic bubble as House Bill 1023, which may be the only action the South Dakota Legislature takes in response…
In the "No News Is Bad News" Department, I was wondering if the South Dakota Banking Commission had ever ruled on whether SDRC Inc., the controversial Aberdeen company into which Joop Bollen privatized his state duties as EB-5 visa investment…
It's –7°F in Huron this morning. Who'd give up tropical sunshine for weather like that? Political refugees from Burma/Myanmar, that's who. The Karen people are an ethnic group from Southeast Asia. About 50,000 have come to America to escape political…
In my Top 30 Stories of 2014 post this morning, I noted that I wrote 172 blog posts about EB-5 this year. Here comes #173. I would never have devoted 11% of my 2014 blog output to the EB-5 visa…
Rep. Peggy Gibson (D-22/Huron) is ready to do some serious work in Pierre this session. Responding to her legislative colleagues' inaction on the EB-5 scandal, Rep. Gibson writes in last Wednesday's Plainsman that South Dakota needs an ethics commission to…
The South Dakota Banking Commission has yet to take any public action on Brown County's request that it investigate EB-5 czar Joop Bollen's SDRC Inc. for possible evasion of bank franchise tax. Director of Banking Bret Afdahl sent SDRC Inc.…