Bob Mercer is trying to wrap his brain around the state and federal investigations of the EB-5 visa program overseen (perhaps not overseen enough) by the South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development. As background, Mercer directs us to required…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard certainly isn't waiting for the public results of any state or federal investigation to render his judgment on the South Dakota Regional Center. Mr. Montgomery reports that the Governor quietly canceled our contract with the state's private…
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…
As Northern Beef Packers in Aberdeen trudges through bankruptcy and angles for a buyer, we have to keep wondering where all the money went. Millions of dollars in state aid and foreign investors buying their green cards and loans from…
Northern Beef Packers laid off 108 of its Aberdeen workers last April. The remaining 300 or so are now having trouble getting their paychecks: Northern Beef Packers will delay paying its employees their wages this week because of financial difficulties.…
Speaker Boehner can't get his House in order. He and poor Rep. Kristi Noem can't get Republican majority to pass a farm bill. Now Speaker Boehner needs Democrats to help him pass an immigration bill: The House Republican leadership is…
Several weeks ago, Rep. Kristi Noem urged constituents to take her "poll" on guns. All I've seen come of that poll are e-mails in which Noem claims that I share her views on the Second Amendment. That sentence alone should…