Yesterday I ran some numbers to demonstrate that, contrary to the flimsy assertions of Governor Kristi Noem, Californians are not flocking to South Dakota for…
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Governor Kristi Noem claims that the migration of nearly 2,500 Californians to South Dakota in 2021 endorses her vision of Freedom™: When Kristi Noem starts…
Nebraska just got $3 million from Uncle Sam to figure out ways to buttress its economy against climate change: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced…
The “strongest economy in America” is still generating the second-lowest teacher salaries in America: The latest data from the National Education Association shows South Dakota…
U-Haul has published its latest annual Growth Index, telling us which states saw the largest influxes of folks moving via U-Haul and which saw the…
John Tsitrian contributes the latest evidence that Governor Kristi Noem’s frequently repeated claim that South Dakota has “the strongest economy in America” is flat wrong:…
The economic analysis of the Sioux Empire Fairgrounds prepared by Minneapolis consultancy CSL International and Tennessee fairgrounds architect Charles D. Smith includes a couple more statistical nuggets…
In her budget speech Tuesday, Governor Kristi Noem’s addiction to unnecessary and false superlative manifested itself when she claimed, “The last four years, we have…
Kelly Hertz of the Yankton Press and Dakotan wonders why South Dakota’s elected officials don’t translate their “sunny talk” about our “robust economy” into real investments…
Exacerbating South Dakota’s workforce shortage is our perennial brain drain. Kylie Carlson and Stu Whitney report that we lose about 47% of all public university graduates…