Sanford Overstates South Dakota Policy Efficacy, Worker Productivity
Arizona/South Dakota billionaire T. Denny Sanford is using $25 million of his usury-gotten fortune to keep South Dakota state government from coming up with more of its own money to address workforce...
View ArticleDeadwood Trust Opposes Move of Historic Fountain House
Deadwood is astir over another old building threatened by development. Optima LLC, which owns Cadillac Jacks and Springhill Suites on the north end of Deadwood, wants to move the Fountain House from...
View ArticleState Rejects Madison, Sioux Falls Requests for Workforce Development Grants
Sixteen groups applied last November for workforce development grants from the South Dakota Workforce Initiative. The Workforce Development Council rejected just two of those applications: Madison's...
View ArticleAberdeen Sees Higher Wages Trumping Higher Cost of Living in Worker Decisions
You know that argument South Dakota Republicans like to make that South Dakota's purportedly low cost of living makes up for South Dakota's low wages? That argument is working for workers, says the...
View ArticleState Workforce Grants Send HS Vo-Tech Students to Mitchell, Instructors to...
The Mitchell school district and the Wagner economic development corporation are heading opposite directions with the workforce development grants they recently won from the state. The Mitchell school...
View ArticleLetter: South Dakota Gives up Valuable Water for Foreign Uranium Scheme
Blogger John Tsitrian posted a complaint Monday calling out Azarga (formerly Powertech) for lying to investors in its public statements about the progress of its plans to mine uranium in the southern...
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Aberdeen EcDev Boss: Good Teachers for Immigrants Key to Workforce Growth
¡Es necesario enseñar inglés! Aberdeen Development Corporation CEO Mike Bockorny (left) addresses Commissioner Tom Fischbach (right) and other members of the Brown County Commission, Aberdeen, SD,...
View ArticleTurner County Egg Factory Would Bring 6 Million Chickens and Serfdom
South Dakota chickens are apparently slacking off. About 2.63 million chickens laid 752 million eggs in South Dakota last year, but according to the USDA, that's a 4% drop laying chickens and an 8%...
View ArticleLNI Boycott Viable Response to Rapid City Racism?
Mr. Kurtz alerts us that our Lakota people may translate their dissatisfaction over Rapid City's response to an alleged racist attack on 57 American Horse School kids at a Rush hockey game in January...
View ArticleOpposing HB 1201, DRA Explains CAFO-Happy County Site Analysis Program
House Bill 1201, which Dakota Rural Action has deemed the worst of the CAFO bills in this year's Legislative Session, heads to Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources this morning at 10:00. HB 1201,...
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