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…
Tag: economic development
The Meade County Commission may not have sent its letter of protest to Governor Kristi Noem against her proposed Rapid City shooting range, but it…
South Dakota may have stayed “open for business” during the pandemic, but investors still fled the capital investment field. According to the Bureau of Finance…
South Dakota Republicans have played a lot of word games to prevent President Joe Biden from investing in any infrastructure beyond plain old roads and bridges.…
South Dakota’s Board of Economic Development has raised the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour… for businesses seeking 2% loans from the Revolving Economic…
Agribusiness continues to stand in the way of robustly diversified economic development in South Dakota. Visionaries are working to create a 75-mile rail to trail…
Along with his guest column yesterday, law professor and South Dakota Task Force on Trust Administration and Review member Thomas Simmons sent me an infographic Lemonly of…
Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) says South Dakota’s racket of hiding money for dictators and drug dealers is great because all those trust companies packed into…
Here’s another reason South Dakota’s trust industry is not the great economic development driver that the Republican lawyer/banker clique are pretending it is. New businesses…
The SDGOP spin machine had to say something in response to the Pandora Papers, the massive journalism project that points out South Dakota’s role in…