Education Secretary Melody Schopp raised my eyebrows with her claim last week that the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative scandal didn’t lose any federal GEAR UP grant…
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In over three hours of testimony to the the Government Operations and Audit Committee in Pierre yesterday, Secretary of Education Melody Schopp said none of…
Senator Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs), one of South Dakota’s most conservative legislators, sat down today for a one-on-one interview with Dakota Free Press, South Dakota’s…
The mortally corrupt Mid-Central Educational Cooperative was supposed to dissolve last week. But at its supposedly penultimate board meeting on June 15, Mid-Central voted to…
KCPO-TV occasionally airs The Facts, an ironic exercise in trying to get “facts” from a stream of right-wing wishmongers. The Sioux Falls station hasn’t posted new “Facts”…
Beleageured Co-op Denies Responsibility, Exits Stage Left The Department of Legislative Audit has released two important documents: its audit report for the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative for…
Mike Huether apparently has his own internal corruption scandal on his hands. After firing Fire Chief Jim Sideras two months before his planned retirement, banning Sideras from…
Hey, Kristi! You know all those fears you like to fan about fraud in food stamps? Well, the feds have found fourteen million dollars’ worth of food…
In another reminder of how much harder Vermont has tackled EB-5 corruption than South Dakota, Vermont Governor Phil Scott held a press conference Thursday to announce that…
In a April 6, 2017, letter, 20 legislators led by Representative Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) ask their colleagues on the Government Audit and Operations Committee to hold public…