Stacy Phelps is not guilty of any wrongdoing in the GEAR UP scandal. Phelps’s lawyer Dana Hanna appears to accuse some divine being of jury…
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It’s a good thing Marty Jackley lost the gubernatorial primary to Kristi Noem. After fumbling the prosecution of blameless Mid-Central underling Stephanie Hubers in June,…
Republicans have another eleven days to argue about whom they should nominate for Attorney General. We Democrats have to make up our minds in four…
Last night’s Republican gubernatorial primary debate between Marty Jackley and Kristi Noem on South Dakota Public Television produced one bit of useful news, at least…
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…
Education Secretary Melody Schopp’s newsworthy (one, two, three, four blog posts on Dakota Free Press, coverage by Mercer, Ferguson, Russo, Kennecke… but predictably, not a word from…
Remember back in March 2016 when KELO-TV reported that the South Dakota Department of Education had received warnings about misuse of federal GEAR UP grant…
South Dakota is so corrupt— How corrupt is it? —South Dakota is so corrupt that even the folks at the center of our scandals want to…
Angela Kennecke checks the court documents and find the state has submitted evidence against Dan Guericke, accused co-conspirator in the GEAR UP/Mid-Central scandal. The red-letter finding:…
According to state prosecutors, GEAR UP/Mid-Central corruption scandal defendant Stacy Phelps and his attorney Dana Hanna are sitting on evidence that could help establish the state’s case…