…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…
Tag: openness
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…
Governor Dennis Daugaard’s office has provided some clarification on the openness of the upcoming meetings of the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Teachers and Students (BluRTFTS).…
I was not sanguine about the prospects of the South Dakota Supreme Court reversing the Office of Hearing Examiners and the circuit court and granting reporter Bob Mercer’s request to…
In response to a discussion about public records law, Attorney General Marty Jackley has sent Dakota Free Press PDF scans of the five proposed ballot initiatives currently on his desk.…