One of the speakers at last week’s libertarian Freedom Fest in Rapid City notes one of the factors that may slightly squelch our economic development—lack…
Tag: tourism
I like how Bob Mercer accurately rephrases the Deadwood gambling report as losses for our visitors: Deadwood’s gambling crowds in June lost $11,758,459.56 in slot…
Pat Powers runs some spurious claim from pillow and conspiracy vendor Mike Lindell that every hotel room in Sioux Falls has been reserved for some…
We can’t count pheasants, but we’ll sure count pheasant hunters. Bob Mercer describes the 62,289 nonresident pheasant-hunting licenses we sold last year as a modern…
In our discussion of forces behind America’s current worker shortage, regular commenter “O” noted that one contributing factor is “the nativist anti-immigrant fervor that resulted…
Kristi Noem hates foreigners…except when they’re coming to work for crap wages to prop up South Dakota’s major industries. A couple weeks ago, Governor Kristi…
Never mind—the Noem Administration’s stonewalling of the media continues. The intrepid Bob Mercer was trying to get answers last year’s Mount Rushmore fireworks and the…
South Dakota tourism faces a labor shortage, thanks to coronavirus cutting off our tourist traps’ access to cheap foreign labor and to fewer kids available…
South Dakota tourism didn’t escape the pandemic recession; our reckless self-promotion only made the dip in business less severe than elsewhere: The state saw about…