Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, is the biggest measure on South Dakota’s 2016 ballot, with 70 sections of new statutes and amendments to reform…
Tag: corruption
Not every bill before the South Dakota Legislature is a steaming pile of culture-war crapola. House Bill 1220 is a useful and timely bit of lawmaking responding…
In other news… I’m running for the District 3 State Senate seat. From my campaign Issues page… I’m running for South Dakota Senate because I love…
Last month Governor Dennis Daugaard said the apparent corruption in the GEAR UP program administered by the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative for the state was “ridiculous.” Evidently sick…
What’s another way to fight corruption in South Dakota? Support unions. Beleaguered employees at the South Dakota Developmental Center in Redfield may pursue unionization to better…
Kelly Duncan, Stacy Phelps, thanks for the idea! The Democratic caucus in Pierre is willing to learn from the corruption exposed in the Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal.…
In the No Hard Feelings Department, an eager reader notices an item in the January 14 Mid-Central Educational Cooperative minutes that escaped my attention in yesterday’s review:…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative has posted the minutes of its January 14 meeting. We get no bombshells, just details of the organization’s continuing efforts to recover from…
I said last week that House Bill 1048, which would increase the number of video lottery machines per establish, raise bets and prizes, and let a more-empowered state Lottery Commission keep…
The GOP spin blog can’t bear to say much about the Governor’s State of the State speech, because a huge portion of the Governor’s speech affirms stories…