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Posts tagged as “openness”

Rep. Gibson Questioned GOED in 2012 on Northern Beef Packers; Time for Reform

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…

Brendan Johnson Adopts Social Media; GOP Web Spinster Sputters

Pat Powers predictably snarkificates on U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson's opening of a Twitter account: ...isn’t raising his profile though the use of social media a political move for someone viewed by many Democrats as the future savior of the South…

Minnesota Perspective: Krabbenhoft Wrecks Sanford-Fairview Merger

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 :…

Journalists Criticize South Dakota’s Closed Government

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…

Meade County Commissioner Aker Seeks to Limit Official Minutes

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…

“Building South Dakota” Breakdown: Reading the First Public Draft

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…