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Posts tagged as “business”

Bankruptcy Trustee Offers Dairy Dozen-Veblen Investors 1/10,000 Return

The courts are wrapping up another messy parcel of the dairy empire that serial polluter Rick Millner of Veblen mismanaged into bankruptcy. The United States Bankruptcy Court of the District of South Dakota has received the final trustee's report concerning…

Madison Nips Tree-Trimmer License Rules in Bud; Whose Idea Was It?

Eager reader Rod Goeman scooped everyone with this first report on the failure of Madison's proposed tree-trimmer licensing ordinance: The First Reading on the tree trimmer ordinance failed due to lack of a second. Commissioner Nick Abraham brought the ordinance…

Madison Considering Tree-Trimmer Licenses and Insurance Mandate

Mike over at Dakota War College has been flogging the meme about regulation putting kids' lemonade stands out of business. Oh, the oppression! The tyranny! Down with government! But enough with the low-hanging fruit: let's go out on a trickier…

Chamber of Commerce Ranks South Dakota Tops on Business Taxes

The U.S Chamber of Commerce has released its second Enterprising States report. As usual, South Dakota gets top marks for its business tax climate (i.e., its general resistance to imposing taxes on the businesses that profit from our services) and…

Big Ag, Small Ag: Tale of Two Conferences

I see two major rural development workshops here in South Dakota on the summer calendar. The first, the Governor's Ag Development Summit, takes place in Sioux Falls next week, July 28 and 29. The second, the MarketPlace: Opening Doors to…

More Madison Retail: Think Local

We have less than two weeks until the community summit my neighbor Ashley Kenneth Allen is hosting (catalyzing? facilitating?) on boosting Madison's retail sector. Much of the discussion in anticipation of this meeting revolves around the merits of bringing a…

Downtown Notes: Events Center, Mini-Wal-Marts, Dell Rapids Bakery

As I consider various plans to rejuvenate Madison's downtown, various bits of downtown news roll across my desk: Sioux Falls Event Center: On a 5&ndash4 vote, the Sioux Falls City Council voted last night to build the fabled Events Center…

Premier Bankcard Fleecing Americans: Good Riddance to Loan Sharks

Posts like this, questioning the corporate media, are why KELO dropped Dr. Newquist and other freethinkers from its blogroll. The inimitable Dr. Newquist beats the living daylight out of Premier Bankcard's effort to blame its layoffs on government regulations. Newquist…