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Posts tagged as “openness”

Powertech Acquires TVA Data on Dewey-Burdock Site, Refuses to Share

With the Nuclear Regulatory Commission coming to the Black Hills next week to hear public comment and consider evidence in the challenge to Powertech/Azarga's application for in-situ leach uranium mining in Fall River and Custer counties, Powertech watchdog Jim Woodward…

Hearing Examiner Rejects Mercer Request for Benda Death Records

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…

South Dakota Gets B+ for Online State Finance Transparency

“[W]e might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress, and every man of any mind in the Union, should be able to comprehend them, to…

State Law Lets Locals Keep Economic Development Plans Secret

Madison City Commission candidate Ashley Allen bristles at backrooms deals in local government. In a Facebook post this week, Allen cites a blog post by Madison Daily Leader correspondent Chuck Clement (wait: did I just use blog post and Chuck…