In our discussion of Trump’s victory among red-state moochers, I cited David Roberts’s smart linkage of the social issues that some South Dakota Democrats are telling…
Tag: economic development
Fiscal quiz! Can you find the error in the following paragraph from Sara Bertsch’s profile of new Governor’s Office of Economic Development chief Scott Stern? The…
The Pro and Con statements on Amendment R, the measure to clarify governance of our vo-tech schools, show a battle between the two wings of…
Just days after 150-some Aberdeen residents gathered to hear a California speaker rally them to reject refugee resettlement and the recruiting of immigrant laborers, a major Huron…
The Partnership for a New American Economy has just issued a series of reports on the “Contributions of New Americans” in all fifty states and…
State Rep. Paula Hawks has consistently criticized U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem for her failure to support reforms of the EB-5 visa investment program in response…
WEB Water says its 107 towers and 6,800 miles of pipe provide water to five ethanol plants and 8,458 rural hookups. Hookup #8,459 will not…
SDPB’s Lee Strubinger gets Senator John Thune to say the obvious: we need to reform the EB-5 visa investment program: “It’s a program that’s had a…
222 rural developers enjoyed the RuralX Summit here in Aberdeen a couple weeks ago. Tea-based grant writer Joshua Hofer did not enjoy it, not as fully…
Jodi Schwan talks with retiring Sioux Falls Development Foundation workforce development specialist Mary Medema about what it takes to meet the demand for labor in Sioux…