Aberdeen’s new website encouraging workers to move here bears the stamp of new Mayor Travis Schaunaman’s aesthetic sensibilities: Stone, brick, and darn few trees—that’s Mayor…
Tag: economic development
The Interim Committee on Electric Services in an Annexed Area (perhaps better labeled the Electric War Committee) posted seven documents from its July 25 hearing.…
Those 42 laid-off Gehl workers could get jobs building Tru Shrimp’s new Madison plant… if Tru Shrimp had the money to start building. The Madison…
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.…
Eager reader Eve Fisher notes that there’s every kind of shrimp: lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, pork shrimp, skinned shrimp, Minnesota Tric Shrimp… State…
Dennis Daugaard and Russ Olson were all smiles and giggles in January when Tru Shrimp finagled South Dakota into offering them a bigger corporate welfare package…
Is Governor Kristi Noem’s abandonment of the traditional Governor’s Hunt in the greater Pierre area in favor of another big expo and concert in Sioux Falls…
The Noem regime is preparing to lean even harder on counties to let CAFOs take over the prairie. According to Bob Mercer, Noem’s economic development…
Hey, Governor Noem! Still looking for South Dakota’s “Next Big Thing“? Instead of paying kids to kill varmints, how about investing in research and development?…
Previous administrations promoted the EB-5 visa program to entice foreign fancy pants to pour money into economically distressed rural areas to promote economic development. Out of that…