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…
Tag: corporate welfare
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…
Senate Bill 159, the stealth voucher bill, died and was reborn today. This morning I laid out four good reasons that SB 159, which would give…
Meanwhile, in local corporate welfare news, my city council is formalizing some handouts to big corporations. Ordinance 16-01-03 received a favorable first reading last night, with the six…