The evaluation of SD GEAR UP’s effectiveness didn’t turn up all snake eyes. According to responses from a focus group made of Indian students participating in GEAR…
Month: November 2015
The 2015 SD GEAR UP Program Evaluation conducted by the USD Government Research Bureau issued in August 2015 concluded that South Dakota wasn’t getting much demonstrable bang for the…
A source tells me that Senate Judiciary Committee staff have shared a draft of proposed EB-5 reforms with IIUSA, an industry front group of lawyers and private immigration specialists who…
Education Secretary Melody Schopp rejects Rep. Lance Russell’s call for her to resign over the Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal. She tells Dana Ferguson that good leaders don’t “back away…
Rick Weiland and Drey Samuelson delivered a petition with 39,182 signatures to Pierre yesterday to place a constitutional amendment creating an open nonpartisan primary on South Dakota’s…
Three more ballot measures made yesterday’s submission deadline in the Secretary of State’s office. I’ll write up each of these newly submitted measures today. For…
How many times does South Dakota have to get Fs for corruption before South Dakotans decide to do something about it? Yesterday’s big USAToday article shows South Dakota tied for…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative business manager Scott Westerhuis incorporated two non-profits to handle the federal GEAR UP grant the Department of Education contracted down to MCEC, allowing him…
Rural residents south of Mount Vernon continue to find their quality of life degraded by the stench of Jackrabbit Family Farms’ sow operation, which processes 150,000…
Holy cow! Shantel Krebs is coming to town! My morning paper tells me that our Secretary of State will speak at the Brown County Republicans‘ Reagan…