Higher interest rates appear to be reining in new construction in Sioux Falls. Rae Yost reports that, over the first nine months of the year,…
Category: South Dakota
Summit Carbon Solutions is trying to rebound from the Public Utilities Commission’s stunning rejection of Summit’s carbon-sequestration pipeline with a redoubled charm campaign. Summit CEO…
According to new data from the Prison Policy Initiative, South Dakota keeps 6,500 people locked up each day. That’s an incarceration rate of 824 per…
The Legislative Research Council reinforces the point I made last week that, yes, taxes are low in South Dakota. An August 7 research memo to…
Maybe South Dakota wouldn’t have had quite as big of an economic recession in 2022 if the state hadn’t denied itself $103 million in easy…
“I was raised by a dad who often reminded me, ‘Kristi, we don’t sell land, because God’s not making any more land….” Kristi Noem has…
Gun and ammo makers who heed Governor Noem’s invitation to move from the coast to the prairie will enjoy some reduction in tax burden. The…
This summer, code counsel Justin Goetz of the Legislative Research Council, produced an issue memorandum on the emergency clause for the Legislature’s Executive Board. The…
In her ongoing effort to stack South Dakota’s electorate with tax dodgers and gun nuts, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is urging California gun makers…
Well, citizens won’t make a lot of money serving on the new post-election audit boards. The state Board of Elections met yesterday and approved reimbursements…