Just as Bob Mercer notices that the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission staff is inclined to say that TransCanada has met the requirements for renewing…
Category: South Dakota
Look, Mom! I’m in the paper: Boy, forget pot policy, Lynn! Hanging out with a political blogger like me ought to ensure defeat for the party, right?…
The corruption in Pierre is so bad— —How bad is it?!— —it’s so bad that even the local paper in this government town has to admit that…
Joop Bollen’s response to the state’s effort to hang him for the corruption of South Dakota’s EB-5 program draws Maurice Berez back into the public spotlight.…
Unable to come up with any rational defense of the man who gave him a cushy state job, GOP Pat Powers offers this feeble flacking for former Secretary…
My reporter friends at the Aberdeen American News labor under strict prohibitions on political activity, like not being able to sign petitions. Yet their statewide political reporter (whom…
Senator Mike Rounds may be afraid to lobby to save South Dakota’s access to the EB-5 visa investment program that went corrupt on his watch, but the State of South Dakota is fighting…
Jeb Bush must think he’s going to last until South Dakota’s June primary. He appears to be angling for Dennis Daugaard’s endorsement: “Universities ought to have skin…
In a fit of sanity yesterday, the Legislature’s interim committee on the South Dakota High School Activities Association declared itself pointless and refused to recommend either of the…
Joop Bollen and EB-5, Scott Westerhuis and GEAR UP, Jason Gant and iOASIS and the filched flag—even the sober and serious Bob Mercer is compelled…