Madison blogosphere neighbor John Nelson expresses his hope that the promotion of Julie Gross from Chamber of Commerce director to Lake Area Improvement Corporation director means better things for Madison. I want to be generous and look for signs that…
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Three weeks after applications closed, we still haven't heard from the Lake Area Improvement Corporation whom it will pick to direct economic development efforts in and around Madison. As we eagerly await the golden child to reverse previous LAIC exec…
Incumbent Madison city commissioner Nick Abraham gets the last of five candidate profiles in the Madison Daily Leader. He says just enough of the right things to make me feel comfortable with my Madison neighbors re-electing him tomorrow. Commissioner Abraham…
KJAM lets us know that the Lake Area Improvement Corporation has posted the opening for its executive director position. The last LAIC exec, Dwaine Chapel, once told me that his job was, basically, to fix Madison. Having utterly failed, Chapel…
I had the pleasure of attending the Spearfish Economic Development Corporation's annual meeting last night at the Spearfish Convention Center. They fed me free meatballs. Mmmm.... They also handed me and the couple hundred other people there a copy of…
Lake County finished 2011 with a jump in unemployment. According to the South Dakota Department of Labor, December 2011 unemployment in the county jumped from 4.0% to 4.4%. Following a relatively normal seasonal pattern at the local and state level,…
Oh, and SDSU and Brookings were doing so well... Dwaine Chapel has resigned from the executive directorship of the Lake Area Improvement Corporation. Chapel is leaving one of the few six-figure salaries in Madison to work where he lives, in…
...and you can see and Feel the Surge(!!!) of the "Forward Madison 2" launch... My neighbor Ashley Kenneth Allen attended the Lake Area Improvement Corporation's dog and pony show promoting its "Forward Madison 2" economic development initiative, which is counting…