Mark Walker reports that Second Circuit Judge Doug Hoffman is trying to reduce overcrowding in the Minnehaha County jail and disruption in the lives of accused criminals by…
Month: December 2015
Joop Bollen has cried defamation! in response to the state’s effort to get him to cough up the legal fees he owes them for the messes he made in corrupting…
Grant expert Michael Wyland appears to agree with forensic economist Don Frankenfeld that the “very positive” audit of Mid-Central Educational Cooperative’s GEAR UP books should not assuage our…
Suppose you owned a million-dollar asset, like a big gun and grenade collection, or eight Tesla Model Xs. Suppose you had a buddy keep that…
Scott Meyer is young, brilliant, ambitious… and moving out of South Dakota. After winning election to the Brookings City Commission just this spring, Meyer announced last month…
Rick Weiland spoke to the Brown County Democratic Forum this noon about the ballot measures his organization, TakeItBack.org, is promoting. If these three initiatives make the ballot (still…
KELO-TV and everyone else is reporting that Sioux Falls police arrested Darren Kyle Zafft, age 29, and Jennifer Marie Cash, age 35, yesterday on “multiple…
Governing looks at Census data on county industry reliance and population changes and finds some correlations that indicate challenges for economic growth in South Dakota. Counties relying heavily on retirement…
Last month, hysterical right-wing governors went on a states’ rights tear, arguing that they could ban Syrian refugees from their states. South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard only…
With the possibility that laggardly South Dakota may finally expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, let’s take a moment to consider Medicaid fraud. The people South Dakota…