Angela Kennecke reports on one GEAR UP employee’s support of suspicions raised by this blog and other observers about consultants siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal education grant…
Tag: American Indians
Indian Country Media spotlights a May 2015 report from the Lakota People’s Law Project recounting the self-serving relationships and contracts, first revealed in Laura Sullivan’s landmark NPR report…
The Jackson County Commission has finally surrendered to demands for voting equality and agreed to establish a satellite early voting station in Wanblee for the next…
The news from Jackson County looks like a victory for Indian voting rights. After burning up lots of taxpayer dollars fighting a voting-rights lawsuit from its…
Bob Mercer notices another task force producing lots of talk but little apparent action: There was enthusiasm to some degree when Rep. Don Haggar, R-Sioux Falls, received…
Since 2005, South Dakota has obtained millions of dollars in federal GEAR UP grants under the pretense of helping prepare American Indian youth for college. However, in a tradition going…
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 John Thune and Representative Kristi Noem visited Pine Ridge last week and heard about the “spikes in suicide rates, including some children, and ongoing…