Higher interest rates appear to be reining in new construction in Sioux Falls. Rae Yost reports that, over the first nine months of the year,…
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According to new data from the Prison Policy Initiative, South Dakota keeps 6,500 people locked up each day. That’s an incarceration rate of 824 per…
The United States Census Bureau reported last week that real median income after taxes fell 8.8% from 2021 to 2022. Note that’s real income, figuring…
The Attorney General’s new report on South Dakota’s 2022 crime stats allows me to update my July 17 report on assaults on police. The A.G.…
In his exhortation to his new mayor to live up to his professed Christian values and welcome immigrants to replenish Rapid City’s workforce, South Dakota Standard‘s…
Paying the rent isn’t as hard in South Dakota as it is in most other states. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, South…
My Friday post on South Dakota’s non-unique work ethic got me thinking about how we might actually measure work ethic. One measure of work is…
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 Department of Education released its K-12 fall enrollment figures for 2022 last week. The numbers show 607 more kids going to South Dakota’s public…