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…
Tag: economic development
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…
While Donald Trump vacillates on DACA, some South Dakota Republicans want to punish young people who were brought to America illegally by their parents who…
The state’s former juvenile prison south of Custer sold yesterday for $2.34 million. Custer developer Jared Carson and some unnamed associates put up the minimum…
It’s pretty hard to write so much about the Legislature without thinking up ideas for good legislation of my own. I’ve offered blog bills in…
Feedlot fanatic Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) continues to press his one-track vision of rural economic development by threatening to take away state aid to…
Ten years ago I suggested Madison’s Chamber of Commerce and Lake Area Improvement Corporation recruit developers to resurrect the Lake Park Hotel. A classy hotel…
KSFY featured the three major gubernatorial candidates this week, Democrat Billie Sutton and Republicans Marty Jackley and Kristi Noem. Senator Sutton said the Republican Legislature’s…