Here’s a bill I’ll say yes to right now: Senate Bill 90 is a simple little proposal from Senator Ried Holien (R-5/Watertown) that adds one sentence to…
Tag: openness
Last Sunday, Bruce Danielson alerted his Sioux Falls neighbors to two items on their city council’s agenda: a new three-dollar rental car tax and a proposal to let…
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…
…and gets contract amidst violation of open-meetings law. In my Friday report on Tom Oster’s Bollen-esque privatization of his public duty to help his employer, the Sioux…
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…
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…
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…
For probably the first time in its history, TV cameras came to a board meeting of Mid-Central Educational Cooperative. Given that the state has yanked MCEC’s…
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…
Mr. Kurtz usefully notes former newspaperman turned Yankton city commissioner Nathan Johnson’s effort to open up city government. At Monday’s city commission meeting, Johnson suggested that the…