Frequent commenter Debbo recently shared with me this Minneapolis Star-Tribune article on retiring Minnesota Chamber of Commerce official Bill Blazar, who says immigrants are vital to…
Tag: economic development
The Aberdeen City Council last night narrowly approved first reading of an expansion of the sales tax refunds the city offers to big industrial projects.…
Not yet tanked by the Trump tariffs is the big soybean plant AGP is building here in Aberdeen. AGP has been cagy about telling us…
Weep not for Tatewin Means. Just a week after missing her shot at running state law enforcement, the multi-talented Means gets to run Thunder Valley…
I teased new Sioux Falls mayor Paul TenHaken last week for some word and spandex choices that could make his Republican backers nervous. Now this week…
Democratic candidate for governor Billie Sutton starts off his economic development plan with the one phrase his Republican opponents refuse to mention when talking workforce: raising…
DevelopIn their bids for governor, Marty Jackley and Kristi Noem are floating all sorts of airy-fairy economic development plans. Billie Sutton responds with a hodgepodge…
Kristi Noem agrees with me that South Dakota’s economy is unacceptably stagnant: Noem cited the state’s slow economic growth, saying South Dakota’s Gross Domestic Product,…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem will speak to the public at the Aberdeen Ramkota on Thursday, April 5, at 11 a.m. Among the questions we pose to…
When Dennis Daugaard ran for Governor in 2010, he presented a 20-page plan for economic recovery (you know, from the second Bush Recession that Barack Obama…