Uh oh—Indians making money: Ten months after opening Native Nations Cannabis, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is expanding its medical marijuana operations with two new…
Posts tagged as “economic development”
Some States May Wise Up to FoxConn Con, Form Compact to End Economic Development Subsidy Competition
Wisconsin has thrown hundreds of millions of dollars worth of favors at FoxConn and gotten mostly bupkis. Wisconsin should not be surprised: …States and cities spend…
Representative Randy Gross (R-8/Elkton) has evidently taken his redistricting out of District 8 and into contentious District 25 in stride. With his Elkton home in Moody…
The Legislature is cooking up more corporate welfare. Senate Bill 157 from Senator David Wheeler (R-22/Huron) would exempt big data centers from paying gross receipts tax…
The Meade County Commission may not have sent its letter of protest to Governor Kristi Noem against her proposed Rapid City shooting range, but it…
South Dakota may have stayed “open for business” during the pandemic, but investors still fled the capital investment field. According to the Bureau of Finance…
South Dakota Republicans have played a lot of word games to prevent President Joe Biden from investing in any infrastructure beyond plain old roads and bridges.…
South Dakota’s Board of Economic Development has raised the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour… for businesses seeking 2% loans from the Revolving Economic…
Agribusiness continues to stand in the way of robustly diversified economic development in South Dakota. Visionaries are working to create a 75-mile rail to trail…
Along with his guest column yesterday, law professor and South Dakota Task Force on Trust Administration and Review member Thomas Simmons sent me an infographic Lemonly of…