…and Financial Priority on Consultants and Contractors, Not Scholarships South Dakota’s original 2005 GEAR UP grant application, posted and analyzed last week by Angela Kennecke, is chock full…
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…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…
Former state education secretaries Rick Melmer and Tom Oster, both appointees of Mike Rounds, run a consulting firm, Dakota Education Services. According to one of…
The powers that be are having a hard time spinning the controversy involving Mid-Central Educational Cooperative’s handling of millions of dollars of federal GEAR UP grant money…
The commentariat went ape last fall when I said Watertown should stop dressing up its kids as Indians for homecoming. Now Stu Whitney can catch heck from…
The state is moving quickly to shut down the gravy train that Mid-Central Educational Cooperative appears to have created with its contract to run the GEAR UP…
Let Pat piddle around with the Ashley Madison database—if you want to crunch some real numbers and names of public interest, dig through the minutes of Mid-Central Educational…
What’s worse than a house fire killing six family members? Learning that the family didn’t die from the house fire, but from the father’s shotgun: Attorney…