Bart Pfankuch updates us on the last great project of the Benedictine Sisters of Watertown, the transformation, now in its sixth year, of their 495-acre…
Tag: housing
South Dakota Searchlight prints Nina Luz’s write-up of Dakota Institute fellow and Northern State University economist Dr. Aaron Scholl’s June analysis of housing affordability in…
In an article emphasizing that housing is the primary hurdle to small-town economic development, Bart Pfankuch also notes that putting the screws to owners of…
On Wednesday the Comprehensive Property Tax Task Force kicked 18 of its 27 tax reform proposals up to the Executive Board for further consideration. One…
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem continues to suckle the government teat for all she can get. While asking for a fancy new government jet, she’s…
In good news for actual practical policy, the South Dakota Housing Development Authority reported to the Legislature’s Executive Board Tuesday that it has finally started…
John Hult writes about the Rapid City Council’s waiver of its minimum lot size requirement for realtor Rod Poeppel, who wants to build 600–800-square-foot homes—the…
Before they got to complaining about how the Governor’s taxpayer-funded self-promotion has not eased the workforce shortage, the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors got to…
Freedom is a tricky thing. For instance, the freedom from regulation in the mobile home park business gives the landlords lots of freedom but leaves…