The 2015 SD GEAR UP Program Evaluation conducted by the USD Government Research Bureau issued in August 2015 concluded that South Dakota wasn’t getting much demonstrable bang for the…
Tag: corruption
Education Secretary Melody Schopp rejects Rep. Lance Russell’s call for her to resign over the Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal. She tells Dana Ferguson that good leaders don’t “back away…
How many times does South Dakota have to get Fs for corruption before South Dakotans decide to do something about it? Yesterday’s big USAToday article shows South Dakota tied for…
Mid-Central Educational Cooperative business manager Scott Westerhuis incorporated two non-profits to handle the federal GEAR UP grant the Department of Education contracted down to MCEC, allowing him…
Seth Tupper exposes our Congressional delegation’s lukewarm laziness on EB-5 reform. Then he reminds us how bad all the other players in South Dakota’s EB-5 scandal look……
This afternoon, South Dakotans for Ethics Reform, led by Democrat Rick Weiland and Republican Don Frankenfeld, handed Shantel Krebs a petition with 25,216 signatures to place the…
Republicans are so scared that South Dakotans will demand accountability for corruption in Pierre that their spin blogger Pat Powers now must distract us from the…
Warming up for Attorney General Marty Jackley’s press conference in Platte today at 1 p.m. Central, Angela Kennecke goes to town on the state’s GEAR UP…
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…
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…