Jackson County has a history of trying to keep public documents away from the public. Makenzie Huber notes that Jackson County is one of eleven…
Posts tagged as “openness”
While South Dakota Republicans follow their party’s national playbook and work really hard to deny you the chance to vote, South Dakota Democrats are publishing their…
Taxpayers are paying six figures for Kristi Noem’s comms team, but it seems all her people can say when the press asks them to clarify…
Seth Tupper reported last week that Secretary of State Monae Johnson decided in January to stop accepting e-mail requests for public records. Evidently that decision…
Transparency Schmansparency: Monae Johnson Slow to Provide Public Records, Won’t Take Email Requests
Monae Johnson promised “Greater Transparency in your Secretary of State Office!” Of course, we knew that promise was a sham back during the campaign when…
The South Dakota Supreme Court may be impervious to purchase, but what about the United States Supreme Court? ProPublica, which just won again against billionaire…
Team Noem has dressed up the state press release website but destroyed thousands of useful hyperlinks. The state’s press release website, news.sd.gov, was until the…
The SDGOP party leaders didn’t get their wish to strip precinct committeepeople of their convention voting rights. But Republican poobahs have found another way to…
South Dakota’s Nuclear Waste War–Piercing Janklow’s Iron Curtains of Secrecy By Donald Pay The first article in this serialized history of the nuclear waste issue…
Democratic candidate Jamie Smith got his degree at Augustana College in the early 1990s, when the rivalry between Augustana and South Dakota State University was…