Recent public criticism of continued taxpayer handouts to the Lake Area Improvement Corporation appears to have provoked a reaction from our economic development chiefs. LAIC board member Mike McDowell takes to his Heartland Consumer Power District blog to point to…
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Q: What's the big difference between economic development programs in Brookings and Madison? A: In Brookings, leaders don't have to make up numbers to justify their program's continued existence. Here in Madison, Lake Area Improvement Corporation exec Dwaine Chapel surprised…
Strolling about the Brookings Summer Arts Festival this weekend, I met a friend who works in the Brookings School District. She reminded me that she and her fellow teachers' jobs are safe thanks to an anonymous private donation that filled…
I attended the first formal public conversation on Madison's retail future, a meeting called by concerned citizen Ashley Kenneth Allen. A dozen of us gathered at the library to start figuring out why Madison's retail sector is in decline and…
We must have worn ourselves out creating jobs in April; the latest South Dakota Department of Labor data show that Lake County's unemployment rate in May stayed at 4.7%. Total jobs in the county crept downward by five, from 6,290…
In continuing celebration of juche, Governor Dennis Daugaard travels to White Lake today to dedicate the Crow Lake Wind Project. (Expect to hear the term self-reliance at least three times in the Governor's speech.) This new wind farm, which has…
February brought better job news for Lake County and its neighbors. According to the latest South Dakota Department of Labor statistics, Lake County gained 125 more jobs in February than it had in January. That brings our unemployment rate down…
It promises to be a rotten few more days for walking, biking, or running. But you can at least go inside and talk about those great activities! On Friday, March 25, the Brookings Public Library is hosting "Walk, Bike, Run…