The Washington Post has already picked up today's big story about Mike Rounds's admission that he knew his economic development chief Richard Benda was planning to cash in on the EB-5 funded Northern Beef Packers project that he and Rounds…
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Pat Powers is having as bad a week as Mike Rounds. First he fouls the leverage his party minders could have gained with the Wismer plagiarism story by implicating his favorite flatteree Rounds in his fabricated fuss over Wismer's stock…
You want to talk about recycling old news? Forget Pat Powers's blogular burpage trying to distract us from a new and important piece of the Rounds Administration's facilitation of Joop Bollen's rule-breaking exploitation of the public trust. Let's look at…
The best line of what passes for journalism at KELO-TV is the opening of Jared Ransom's report on David Borofsky's resignation from the presidency of DSU: "It's an empty, rainy day on the Dakota State campus...." The next line should…
I can't tell you how excited I am to be on the road to South Dakota. Wait—yes, I can! I'm extremely excited! I'm squinting into that morning sun with an enormous smile on my face. I am happier right now…
The Pew Research Center released a study yesterday on journalism in our state capitals. Pew finds 751 full-time statehouse reporters and 851 part-time statehouse reporters. Newspapers have retreated from the statehouses, but they still provide the largest portion of that…
My bad! My bad! After reading KELO's story Wednesday night on the formal challenge to the Bosworth petition, I incorrectly stated that reporter Brady Mallory had not contacted me to get my side of the story. Wrong, wrong, wrong! I…
O.K., I'm news. Actually, I'm not, but Pat Powers wants me to be, because, like fake Senate candidate Annette Bosworth, he survives on distracting readers from the main point (Annette Bosworth is a scam artist, bilking vulnerable donors around the…