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…
Tag: economic development
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…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has appointed Freeman oilman Scott Stern to succeed J. Pat Costello as Commissioner of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. The Governor’s office provides…
PBS provides a reminder for South Dakota’s anti-refugee legislators that Huron’s economic salvation has been refugees. Reporter Christopher Booker speaks with Dakota Provisions HR director…
Hey, Dennis! Primary’s over! Where’s the special session? Rick Knobe says it’s time to convene the Legislature to expand Medicaid. He says the Republicanism that has…
Some days the blog writes itself: That’s Dakota Roots, your state government’s employee recruitment program, using federal government jobs to lure workers to conservative South Dakota. Oh,…
Campbell County Economic Development director Andrew Van Kuren says the free market has failed to provide hundreds of folks in the Pollock area with the cell phone…