House Judiciary hoghoused HB 1177, the distracted driving bill this week. Legislators kept the "We're not really Republicans!" part about trumping local control with state authority: HB 1177 now deems the Legislature "the exclusive regulator of all matters relating to…
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Has White Oak already found a sucker buyer for Northern Beef Packers? An eager reader catches notice of a motion filed in bankruptcy court by White Oak Global Advisors on Monday, January 20, seeking authority to sell Northern Beef Packers…
While economic development dominated Governor Dennis Daugaard's State of the State address yesterday, the Daugaard Administration continued to scramble back from its emblematic economic development failure, the EB-5-visa-backed Northern Beef Packers plant in Aberdeen. Bob Mercer reports that the state…
Everything in South Dakota is political. Walk with me. A reader reminded me this week of the Taliaferro-Schwab case in Aberdeen. I mentioned the story just once on these pages, in June, 2012. Let's review some details: Brandon Taliaferro was…
When Northern Beef Packers swung a second round of EB-5 visa investment worth up to $60 million in November 2010, the slaughterhouse was already two years behind schedule. NBP took another two years to start processing livestock, and it stayed…
The Aberdeen American News looks at missing state documents and balky Republican legislators and wonders if the reviews and audit the Governor has ordered will produce the answers we South Dakotans deserve. I offer one shred of hope that a…
Joop Bollen, the director of South Dakota's now-scrutinized EB-5 visa investment program, has a proclivity for murky incorporation. Bollen formed separate legal entities to handle each of the EB-5 loan pools that his state-contracted firm solicited for South Dakota businesses.…
A January 2008 business plan prepared by Agrifood Solutions International for Northern Beef Packers in Aberdeen offered this estimate of the construction costs then anticipated to put a slaughterhouse in operation by August 2012: As we well know, Northern Beef…