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…
Tag: openness
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.…
Steve Allender started blogging in July 2011, when he was Rapid City’s police chief. He wrote straightforward, often pointed responses to issues like the October 2013 blizzard response and, after…
In the CPA-CYA department, the Department of Revenue tells us that it can’t tell us whether it’s going to take $2.4 million in unpaid bank…
Some of my Democratic friends wonder why I’m not enthusiastic about putting up Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether as a statewide candidate for our party. Knowing that…
I’ve reviewed the briefs filed in Mercer v. Jackley, the case before the Supreme Court in which reporter Bob Mercer is seeking access to the documents…
The South Dakota Legislature passed House Bill 1201 this year to make it easier for counties to open their doors to the un-Christlike, soul-sapping mechanization of meat…