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Posts tagged as “openness”

Bosworth Nominating Petition: Look Legit to You?

I wonder how you make a narcissist go into histrionics.... Pat Powers gives you one corn chip; I give you the whole enchilada. For your reading enjoyment, I offer Annette Bosworth's Republican U.S. Senate nominating petition, filed yesterday with the…

Secretive Medical Culture Protects Bad Doctors, Puts Patients at Risk

Jonathan Ellis shines a harsh light on the culture of secrecy with which state medical boards and hospitals shield doctors from facing the consequences of their malpractice. Focusing on the "trail of pain" left by surgeon Allen Sossan, Ellis shows…

Five Empty Hoghouse Vehicles Still Squealing Through Legislature

Out of 448 bills in the 2014 hopper, South Dakota's legislators have proposed 17 bills that do nothing. No, I'm not talking about the time-wasting karaoke-session resolutions that got Rep. Spence Hawley so cross yesterday. I'm talking about bills that,…

HB 1139: Limit Hourly Fees for Open Records Retrieval

The GOED/EB-5 scandal has revealed the widely varying and sometimes exorbitant fees that some state agencies charge to fulfill public records requests. Some South Dakota public servants charge you nothing to provide public documents. Other state agencies think the documents…

GOP, Mercer Attack HB 1172; Kooiker Calls for Quorum Consistency

The GOP spin machine and reporter Bob Mercer are in full rebuttal mode against Rep. Stace Nelson's latest open-government legislation. The Fulton Fulminator's House Bill 1172 would require any meeting at which a majority of legislators discuss legislation to be…

Rep. Nelson: Open GOP Caucus Meetings, End EB-5

Rep. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) makes my day with two new bills aimed at the arrogant secrecy of his own party. Notoriously averse to omnibus bills, Rep. Nelson keeps his bills short. House Bill 1172 is a neat little dig at…