On her first day as Secretary of Education, Melody Schopp asked the director of the Office of Indian Education, LuAnn Werdel, to resign. Werdel unloaded…
Month: August 2017
In the John Wayne Toilet Paper department, Senator Stace Nelson tells his Republican colleague Senator Deb Peters that he will fulfill her request that he…
Aw, Brinda Kuhn! By refusing to come talk to GOAC in Pierre next week, you’re missing your chance to talk about draft legislation that could…
Could Caleb Finck replace Stace Nelson as District 19’s Senator in the 2018 Session? Maybe, if this letter from the Government Operations and Audit Committee…
The Government Operations and Audit Committee may feel like an ugly duckling. GOAC voted unanimously to invite four people to its August 29 meeting to testify…
Remember back in March 2016 when KELO-TV reported that the South Dakota Department of Education had received warnings about misuse of federal GEAR UP grant…
There’s a lot popping with the Government Operations and Audit Committee’s inquiry into the GEAR UP scandal. Expect multiple posts. First up, Special Assistant Attorney…
Stop student debt before it starts: send your kids to Harrisburg High School so they can take college classes for free! The early college program…
The Interim Task Force on Initiative and Referendum meets tomorrow to consider twenty draft proposals for reforming (and, all too frequently, hurting) South Dakota’s ballot…
Perhaps our American Indian friends can bring some civilization to the white man: American Indian tribes for decades have been able to tell federal prosecutors…