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…
Tag: economic development
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…
Speaking of O.J., I learn from perusing Rosebud Sioux Tribe Channel 93 that candidate for Rosebud Sioux Council President O.J. Semans includes marijuana in his economic development…
Onward Yankton has announced the fifteen semifinalists in its contest to discover Yankton’s next big idea. The local development brainstorming initiative received 508 submissions from around the…
Spearfish shouldn’t need any new, massive project to attract visitors—it’s a beautiful town! But local developers Joe Jorgensen, Vic Uttke, Doug Hoff, Rick Furnish and Wayne Klein see…
The most offensive words I’ve heard all week were the stream of f-words occasionally interrupted by other parts of speech with which my barley-enhanced neighbors awakened me…