The Lake Area Improvement Corporation and Madison Chamber of Commerce took nearly a year to talk about the results of the big retail survey they conducted last spring, and they still didn't manage to edit out all of their cognitive…
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A sad postscript to our Monday discussion of rural population drain and economic development: Gale Pifer reports that Chester Hardware has closed. Owner Denny Benson, grandson of Chester Hardware founder Emil Benson, says he loved the work and the interaction…
I don't make a lot of money teaching in South Dakota. But at least I'm not working for big retail. According to the 2011 Wage Study by the Governor's Office of Economic Development, the average annual wage for a cashier…
Five weeks after local boosters proposed a downtown development task force to the Madison City Commission, four weeks after a group of citizens stepped forward to volunteer their services for that task force, and three weeks after the Lake Area…
At the end of April, some local boosters proposed a community thrift store for downtown Madison. The plan: Buy the two buildings on the corner of Egan Avenue and Southwest First Street currently the Trojan Tap and Sweet Escape Salon.…