It’s nice to see that the Democratic and Republican candidates for Governor agree that South Dakotans should vote based on the corruption uncovered in the…
Tag: Rick Melmer
I wanted to talk positively about Meade superintendent Don Kirkegaard’s appointment as Melody Schopp’s replacement at the Department of Education. But various buzzing bees reminded…
The Government Operations and Audit Committee has asked numerous principals in the GEAR UP scandal to come answer questions at its October 5–6 meeting. A…
In anticipation of his scheduled grilling by fellow members of the Government Operations and Audit Committee yesterday, Senator Stace Nelson sent two recordings of phone…
Last September, when everybody connected with Mid-Central Educational Cooperative and the Department of Education was running scared from possible connections to the exploding GEAR UP scandal, former Secretary of…
Exhibit 5 from Attorney General Marty Jackley’s new filing in the state’s case against GEAR UP player Stacy Phelps shows that Rick Melmer, the Education Secretary…
The Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal is now bursting with lawsuits. Mid-Central Educational Cooperative is suing the American Indian Institute for Innovation for not fulfilling its contractual obligations and…
Attorney General Marty Jackley announced yesterday that a grand jury has indicted Dan Guericke, Stephanie Hubers, and Stacy Phelps for felonies related to their involvement in the…
An eager reader notices a salient detail that hasn’t been mentioned much in the rest of the media. Let’s review the Melmer e-mail included in Special Agent John Barnes’s…
In his Platte press conference yesterday, Attorney General Marty Jackley said the charges he was bringing against Dan Guericke, Stacy Phelps, and Stephanie Hubers (Guericke and Phelps: conspiracy and…