Democratic women may be leading the charge in holding the Governor's Office of Economic Development accountable for the financial misconduct and whatever other corruption the feds may be investigating in the GOED/EB-5/Northern Beef Packers scandal. Rep. Kathy Tyler (D-4/Big Stone…
Posts tagged as “openness”
I was curious as to whether the South Dakota Fusion Center (no, not the secret lab at Mines where the grad students brew moonshine with cold fusion) had gotten corporate-fascist briefings from TransCananda on potential Keystone XL protests. The Canadian…
Former South Dakotan gone Minnesota Joe Loveland offers this hilariously apt theatrical adaptation of Sanford Health's hasty retreat from merger talks with Fairview Health: (Dark stage) Fairview and Sanford CEOs: (Unintelligible whispers) (Stage lights come on) Minnesota Attorney General :…
The Building South Dakota fund, our new Republican scheme of ineffective tax handouts to corporations wedded to a few sensible Democratic policies, is rolling toward passage. And our more attentive press people are p.o.'ed. Tom Lawrence says Senate Bill 235…
An eager Sturgis reader passes along the agenda for Tuesday's regular meeting of the Meade County Commission. My neighbor cocks an eyebrow at Commissioner Alan Aker's agenda item to put the bare minimum of information from county commission meetings on…
Ask and ye shall receive... sometimes! I gripe and moan about not getting to see the highly-touted "Building South Dakota" economic development plan before the Legislature's Republican and Democratic leaders spring it on us in committee Monday, and within a…
I'd really like to pick apart the big new "Building South Dakota" economic development plan partially unveiled by the GOP and Dem leaders of our Legislature yesterday. But I can't, because the bill that is supposed to carry it to…