Last spring, in the midst of the bird flu outbreak that devastated South Dakota turkey and egg factories, South Dakota’s GOP spin blog briefly stepped out from behind…
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In his speech at the A-TEC Academy ribbon-cutting yesterday in Aberdeen, Governor Dennis Daugaard uttered these vitally important words: The Future Fund was started by Governor…
When the South Dakota Legislature created the Building South Dakota economic development fund in 2013, I responded with ambivalence: the program resulted from Democrats’ successful use of the voter…
When Capital One expanded its call center in Sioux Falls in 2012, all of South Dakota’s leading lights came to cheer: Recall that the people in…
Spearfish shouldn’t need any new, massive project to attract visitors—it’s a beautiful town! But local developers Joe Jorgensen, Vic Uttke, Doug Hoff, Rick Furnish and Wayne Klein see…