Todd Epp is a writer, historian and recovering lawyer from Harrisburg, S.D. Besides practicing law, Todd has been a broadcast journalist in South Dakota at S.D. Public TV, KSFY-TV and KDLT-TV and in Kansas at KTWU-TV. In the summer of 2013, Todd returned from an 18 month stint as a consultant at the Erbil International Airport in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq. He's also lived in or traveled to Syria, Turkey, China, Taiwan, Israel, Mexico, Pamama, Germany, France, Spain and Canada, But home is the Sioux Empire. He is married to Donna Osment-Epp, Ph.D. and has two adult children, Sarah and Matt. Hear him when he fills in on the Main Street Cafe or Viewpoint University or read him here on KSOO.com.
Todd Epp
Don’t Think Great Thoughts, Read the Statute re Pressler Being a ‘D.C. Resident’
Important safety tip: Don’t believe everything you read coming from political parties, campaigns or even the media.
Pressler is registered to vote in Sioux Falls as an independent in legislative district 12, according to the South Dakota Secretary of State’s voter file...
EVA Acquiesces to SD GOP’s Demand to Pull Rounds Attack Ad
SIOUX FALLS — Following a strident Republican denunciation of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland and Every Voice Action's attack ad against Republican front-runner Mike Rounds Wednesday, EVA pulled its ad off South Dakota airwaves that afternoon...
EB-5: What California Arbitrator Found as Fact Regarding Bollen, SDRC, Inc.
The underlying transactions in the Darley Commercial, LLC v. Hanul Professional Law Corporation v. South Dakota Board of Regents arbitration are convoluted almost beyond explanation.
However, the third party neutral arbitrator in the matter, Robert A...
Don’t Expect EB-5 Road to Go Through Rounds
The road to clarity about South Dakota’s EB-5 scandal will not run directly through former Gov. Mike Rounds.
That is not saying the same thing as the Republican front-runner for the open U.S. Senate seat in South Dakota is or is not culpable...
Rounds Still Leads in U.S. Senate Race But Pressler Gaining
New polling conducted this week shows increasing support for independent U.S. Senate candidate Larry Presser at the expense of Republican Mike Rounds and Democrat Rick Weiland.
The poll was conducted by Nielson Brothers Polling and sponsored in part by Northern Plains News...
Internal Memo Says Rounds Up By 18 Points in U.S.Senate Race
Internal polling provided by the Rounds for Senate campaign says former Republican Gov. Mike Rounds maintains an 18-point lead over his closest challenger.
EB-5 Figure Joop Bollen Added as Respondent in Federal Case
Joop Bollen has been added to Minnehaha County Commissioner Jeff Barth's pre-complaint petition concerning the EB-5 matter.
Barth’s attorney, Rich Engels of Hartford, a former Democratic state legislator, filed a new petition Thursday in U...
Wismer Hones EB-5 Attack
SIOUX FALLS — Less than a day after a sometimes contentious legislative hearing on South Dakota’s EB-5/Northern Beef Packers controversy, Democratic gubernatorial challenger Susan Wismer unveiled a more finely honed message about the scandal Thursday...
Democrats Unveil New Trove of EB-5 Documents to Committee
PIERRE, S.D. -- Democrats presented a thick black binder of what they say is new evidence in the ongoing EB-5 scandal Wednesday at the South Dakota Legislature’s Government Operations Committee.
For the last 10 months, the EB-5 visa foreign investment program’s administration under the Mike Rounds’ and Dennis Daugaard’s governorships has been under various state and federal investigations.
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Barth Sues Rounds, Others Over EB-5 Matter
Democratic Minnehaha County Commissioner Jeff Barth filed a petition in U.S. District Court on Monday requesting that former governor and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rounds and others preserve or turn over files from the South Dakota Regional Corporation...