Yesterday Jason Glodt and Marsy’s Law—today Aberdeen gets the three-play: city, school, now county commission! The Brown County Commission is evidently so sick of hearing folks slag IT…
Tag: corruption
Bob Mercer did fine work over the weekend summarizing the main findings in the 18-page letter USCIS sent the Governor’s Office of Economic Development on September…
Remember how House Majority Leader Rep. Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) said this week that South Dakota doesn’t need an ethics commission because the Legislature had thoroughly investigated the…
Rick Weiland and Don Frankenfeld get some TV time for their Government Accountability and Anti-Corruption initiative petition, currently circulating at a street corner near you. Hailey Higgins…
Like the Benda/Bollen/GOED/EB-5 scandal before it, the Westerhuis/Melmer/MCEC/GEAR UP scandal is prompting Democrats to push for a state ethics commission. (Job #1 for such a commission:…
Scott Westerhuis’s apparent murder-suicide and the burning of his lavish-beyond-visible-means house on September 17 has sent investigators and journalists digging deeper to find what sort of sins or errors…
John Tsitrian thinks the South Dakota Government Accountability and Anti-Corruption Act, coming soon to a petition near you, is a good idea. The Rapid City blogger says…
The GOP spin machine is going to have to retool its snarky partisan attacks on Rick Weiland’s proposed anti-corruption ballot initiative. The wide-ranging South Dakota Government Accountability and…
The capital city’s press agrees with me that hiring Lawrence & Schiller to advertise the state lottery without reading the contract smells of cronyism: Is it just us, or does it…