In Fiscal Year 2019, the Board of Economic Development gave out $31.49 million in corporate welfare checks from the Reinvestment Payment Program to thirteen big…
Tag: corporate welfare
Joint Appropriations received a reminder Monday of how much we’re paying Ag Processing Inc. (AGP) to open its big soybean plant here in Aberdeen. The…
According to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, only three grants have gone out this year from the Future Fund, the Governor’s unchecked slush fund.…
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development yesterday officially posted its intent to pressure counties into abandoning their zoning regs and approve all the factory feedlots…
For more evidence that the Governor’s Office of Economic Development has no business picking winners and losers in the marketplace, we turn to Donnerite, a…
Amazon has pulled out of its plan to build a headquarters in New York City (or has it?) after negotiations with state and local governments…
Carrier/United Technologies is receiving $7 million in corporate welfare to keep 1,069 jobs averaging $30.91 an hour at its Indianapolis plant, even as C/UT moves 400…
“Companies are not going to leave the United States any more without consequences,” said our President-Elect today at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis as he…
Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether just increased his stock at Dakota Free Press (and hey—given how little stock he has with me, any increase is significant). Evidently…
Among the five vetoes Governor Dennis Daugaard issued yesterday was one seemingly admirable rebuff to corporate welfare. The Governor said no to Senate Bill 100, a measure…