Maybe this explains why 50 years of business incentives haven’t made South Dakota rich… Future Fund grants and sales tax kickbacks make up the largest…
Tag: economic development
Brookings is getting a Menards. The hardware/lumber giant will join Target and Aldi in the northeast quadrant of the I-29/6th Street chaos-plex maybe by Christmas…
Bart Pfankuch updates us on the last great project of the Benedictine Sisters of Watertown, the transformation, now in its sixth year, of their 495-acre…
In both Minnesota and Nebraska, I’ve often had the impression that small towns look bigger than towns of similar population in South Dakota. Little towns…
Aberdeen car salesman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Toby Doeden wants South Dakota voters to believe he’s just like Donald Trump: a loudmouth businessman with no…
Cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in last summer’s federal budget reconciliation bill coincided with over 4,100 South Dakotans no longer receiving SNAP benefits.…
I’ve clearly gotten through to Jon Hansen. The Speaker of the House evidently called a ceasefire in the Republican war against initiative and referendum, bringing…
(Stalwarts… isn’t that what you get from sitting on the toilet too long reading posts on Truth Social?) Aberdeen’s economic development crowd is making a…
Yesterday Governor Larry Rhoden signed the two sensible regulations on data centers that the 2026 Legislature approved. The more sweeping bill, Senate Bill 135, requires…