Governing looks at Census data on county industry reliance and population changes and finds some correlations that indicate challenges for economic growth in South Dakota. Counties relying heavily on retirement…
Tag: economic development
Bob Mercer notices another task force producing lots of talk but little apparent action: There was enthusiasm to some degree when Rep. Don Haggar, R-Sioux Falls, received…
The state is vigorously challenging the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service’s intent to terminate South Dakota’s participation in the EB-5 visa investment program. John…
My reporter friends at the Aberdeen American News labor under strict prohibitions on political activity, like not being able to sign petitions. Yet their statewide political reporter (whom…
If we can’t make cool stuff in South Dakota, we can at least paint it: Polaris Industries, manufacturer of Indian and Victory motorcycles, will turn…
Remember how House Majority Leader Rep. Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) said this week that South Dakota doesn’t need an ethics commission because the Legislature had thoroughly investigated the…
Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota is coming to South Dakota. No, he’s not setting up a kiosk at the Empire Mall to try to convince…
In the externalities department, the Brown County Commission’s discussion of how to pay public defenders reveals one of the costs the public will bear if/when New Angus…
Dr. David Newquist’s concise political history of the transformation of the Homestake Mine into the Sanford Underground Research Facility contends that governors Mike Rounds and Dennis Daugaard…
It takes four days for the mainstream media to pick up the story covered here Friday about Governor Dennis Daugaard’s wrong-note performance at the Gifted Education Summit…