Back in May, Brad Johnson reported that a secret cabal was working on “Freedom’s Haven for New Americans Workforce“, a project to bring more immigrants…
Tag: economic development
A couple weeks ago, the Governor’s Office said the issue of building a second slaughterhouse in Sioux Falls “will be decided at the local level.”…
Big Meat is doing what it does best, making lots of baloney to scare Sioux Falls voters into accepting a second big pig slaughterhouse in…
Lake Preston is about to get a big 21st-century employer—a one-billion-dollar refinery that will make jet fuel from local corn ethanol: Gevo is a Colorado-based renewable…
Last year, Governor Kristi Noem amnesiacally claimed that water pipes aren’t infrastructure as she expressed her exuberant opposition to President Biden’s infrastructure plan. Last winter, she…
South Dakota School of Mines chemical environmental scientist Dr. Maryam Amouamouha may have South Dakota’s next big thing: a water filter that replaces septic systems! Dr.…
Uh oh—Indians making money: Ten months after opening Native Nations Cannabis, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is expanding its medical marijuana operations with two new…
Some States May Wise Up to FoxConn Con, Form Compact to End Economic Development Subsidy Competition
Wisconsin has thrown hundreds of millions of dollars worth of favors at FoxConn and gotten mostly bupkis. Wisconsin should not be surprised: …States and cities spend…
Representative Randy Gross (R-8/Elkton) has evidently taken his redistricting out of District 8 and into contentious District 25 in stride. With his Elkton home in Moody…
The Legislature is cooking up more corporate welfare. Senate Bill 157 from Senator David Wheeler (R-22/Huron) would exempt big data centers from paying gross receipts tax…