Madville Times

You may not like President Obama's economic stimulus package, but you should at least like President Obama's use of the Web to acco...

State House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff (D-18/Yankton) takes a moment to send me some thoughts on how open government promotes fiscal res...

Randell Beck, publisher of that Sioux falls paper, celebrates Sunshine Week with a celebration of newspaper reporters : In an era increasing...

Be all that you can be... 140 characters at a time! A commenter here once expressed shock and disgust that KJAM's Matt Hendrickson and I...

Well, at least we won't be arguing over cutting public radio (or will we?).... Our men in Pierre, David Montgomery and Bob Mercer , ...

Mike Knutson draws my attention to Ord, Nebraska, and that town's avidly blogging economic development director, Caleb Pollard. Pollard...

You want government transparency? President Obama's got your transparency right here , with a huge upload of public data to the Web: The...

Quick thought: our elected officials are catching heck for not holding more town hall meetings to answer to their constituents for their hea...

The results of this month's referenda in Brookings and Howard offer a lesson for all politicians and organizations on the value of trans...

Bob Ellis is inflamed because someone in either Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's office or the Rapid City Chamber of Commerce or both droppe...

Dwaine Chapel just got his paycheck for the year, and then some. In the span of less than 24 hours, he won approval from the city of Madison...

If I read last night's MDL headliner correctly, Lake County is looking at spending some money in next year's budget to scan a new ba...

...sorry, couldn't resist! Another small step for government transparency: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he'll overrrule ...

Hat tip to roving reporter and Madison native Steve White ! I've grumbled previously about the relative lack of information on the Lake ...

KELO notes a story that the venerable Mr. Powers highlighted last week: the Pierre City Commission is keeping secret the names of people w...

And in happy news, South Dakota takes two more steps forward... or is that two big breaths of fresh air? Governor Rounds signs both the smok...

As the House takes up SB 147 on open records and SB 143 on maintaining those open records online, our legislators and Governor should see ...

I meant to give some love to the Black Hills Monitor , which gave friendly coverage last weekend to SB 147 , the big open records bill Senat...

Kevin Woster has blogged it. David Newquist has mentioned it in an e-mail, as has Sam Kephart. And the more I think about it, the more it m...

While working on some potential dissertation material yesterday, I read an academic paper (you know, real research, egghead stuff that MBAs...