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Posts tagged as “openness”

Regents Reject Request for Bollen Conflict-of-Interest Docs

While Representative Bernie Hunhoff (D-18/Yankton) has asked the Board of Regents to release all of its files pertaining to the Darley v. SDIBI litigation (and while I'd be happy for now just to get Darley's 17.5-hour deposition of Joop Bollen),…

Unintentional Hilarity: Governor Daugaard Declares October Archives Month

Governor Dennis Daugaard has declared October "Archives Month" in South Dakota: “Archival institutions have a responsibility to collect, organize, preserve and make available records that document the history of the state of South Dakota and the plains region for the…

Regents, Please Publish the April 2014 Bollen Deposition

The South Dakota Board of Regents has been gathering evidence on the EB-5 scandal for over five years, ever since it discovered that the EB-5 coordinator who worked on the Northern State campus, Joop Bollen, concealed a lawsuit against the…

Voter Challenges Al Novstrup to Live up to Open-Records Cred on EB-5

Hey, Burt Elliott! Pat Hale! You're paying attention to this letter to the editor in the Aberdeen paper, right? Ed Fischbach of Mellette notes that Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) was all about open records when the James River Water Development…