Angela Kennecke did not spotlight the most significant text from her 33-minute interview with Governor Dennis Daugaard and Secretary of Education Melody Schopp this week. Right out…
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In the latest sign of his shameless bondage to his party patrons, Pat Powers responds to the grim, unflattering KELO-TV interview of Governor Dennis Daugaard and Secretary of…
Dana Ferguson attended today’s meeting of the scandal-plagued Mid-Central Educational Cooperative in Platte today and got the big news that the MCEC board accepted a resignation from former…
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…
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…