The TIF campaign is on in Meade County. Meade County Taxpayers for Responsible Government gathered over 1,200 signatures (they needed 762) to refer the county's tax increment financing plan for a proposed bypass from the Buffalo Chip Campground to I-90…
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Meade County Commissioners have what seems like a good transportation idea: they'd like to build a bypass east of Sturgis to connect state Highways 34 and 79 straight south to Interstate 90: This east bypass would run from the Elkview…
The Richard Benda Memorial Apartment Complex holds an open house today in Madison to celebrate the vital role crony capitalism plays in meeting market needs. Jane Utecht's report on the tax-increment-financed Lake Area Townhomes indicates there is great demand for…
One of Richard Benda's final public projects was convincing the Lake County Commission to give a tax handout to his employer Lloyd Companies' housing project in Madison. In homage to Benda's crony capitalism, the Madison City Commission is following up…
Want to know how a Tax Increment Finance District works? Check out my November 2007 explanation, back when Madison created its first TIF district for Randy Schaefer's housing project. Madison and Lake County are on their way to establishing a…
The Lake County Planning Board met yesterday to review a proposed tax increment finance district. If the board was reviewing for grammar and accuracy, they found a hilarious cut-and-paste error on page 5 of the August draft from TIF seeker…
The Madison Daily Leader reprints more paid propaganda from the woeful Lake Area Improvement Corporation, this time in defense of the crony capitalism that got taxpayers to foot part of the bill for developing Silver Creek Circle out back of…
Incoming (that's what teachers and school boards should start shouting any time Republicans enter the room) South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson demonstrates the warped free market fundamentalism that pollutes our public policy. At the end of the 2010…