As I review the financial reports of the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative, I find two seeming anomalies. MCEC includes financial position statements in nearly all of the…
Category: South Dakota
Like the Benda/Bollen/GOED/EB-5 scandal before it, the Westerhuis/Melmer/MCEC/GEAR UP scandal is prompting Democrats to push for a state ethics commission. (Job #1 for such a commission:…
I feel downright dirty rebutting something Larry Kurtz says with something Pat Powers says, but here goes: The indomitable Mr. Kurtz repeats his contention that backing marijuana…
It’s final push time for initiative petitions! The organizers behind the seven initiated laws and five constitutional amendments approved for circulation by the Secretary of State have 27…
The good news is that Madison has just passed a policy that will allow energetic residents who build home energy generation systems to sell their excess power back to…
Bob Mercer sounds unimpressed with the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students. In his latest blog post, he appears to dismiss the 26-member panel’s…
South Dakota’s fiscal disrespect for teaching evidently extends beyond K-12 into our Regental system. The Board of Regents considered a proposal “to set tuition at zero and…
So I’m biking home and I see a dusty cloud rising above the sylvan Aberdeen skyline. What the heck is that? In a minute, I’m biking through…
The payday lenders must be scared. As if circulating their fake 18%-rate-cap petition and hiring out-of-state mercenaries to “block” South Dakota petition circulators isn’t enough, Lisa Furlong’s payday-lender…
Murder-suicide, questionable finances, mishandling of federal funds, conflicts of interest, GOP cronyism—such are the words that have lit up our headlines the last couple weeks over the scandal…