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Posts tagged as “business”

Driver License Rules Easier for RVers Than Long-Time Residents

Last week I mentioned how the cost of obtaining a driver license may make requiring a photo ID to vote unconstitutional. Sunday, a neighbor from Wilmot gave me a ring and reinforced my concerns by pointing out how hard it…

Manufactured Home Dealers Among “Top” Ten Dying Industries

The Lake Area Improvement Corporation trumpeted the expansion of Watertown-based Superior Homes to Madison last December. Superior Homes, a subsidiary of Brookings-based window maker Larson Manufacturing, builds modular homes and commercial buildings and sells in an eight-state, three-province area. Let's…

Buy Local Survey Shows Need for Competition, not Education

One of the Leadership Madison groups has released results and recommendations from its fall 2010 Buy Local survey—well, sort of. We get the press-filtered version from LAIC hired writer Emmeline Elliott, but when I check the Leadership Madison webpage, I…

Minnesota Taxes Business Less Than South Dakota Does

I'm surprised I didn't see this study sooner. I'm not surprised that salesman-in-chief Dennis Daugaard hasn't mentioned it. Jeff Rosenberg of MNPublius spotlights a study on state and local business taxes by Ernst and Young for the Council on State…

Madison Aerostar Employees Get $1800 Bonus Checks

How's that for a shot in the economic arm? About 70 workers reporting to the Madison facility on Thursday got $1800 profit-sharing checks from the company. Division VP/GM Lon Stroschien says Aerostar will also start reimbursing employees for membership dues…

Huron Suspends Police Chief for Legislative Testimony

Turkeys Running Huron? Huron Police Chief Doug Schmitt exercised his First Amendment rights on Monday by testifying before the South Dakota House State Affairs Committee in support of Senate Bill 156. Chief Schmitt appeared on his own behalf, but he…

Smoking Ban Lawsuit Shows Bar Owner Hypocrisy

The redoubtable Mr. Rosenthal challenges the respect for democracy and the Constitutional consistency of the lawsuit filed to overturn South Dakota's smoking ban: I am not sure that they care that not only did the people's Representatives (the Legislature) but…

Most States with No Income Tax Don’t Win Fortune 500 Companies

This November 2009 tax fact sheet lists nine states that lack a broad-based personal tax. Five of those states, including South Dakota, have no corporate income tax (well, not counting our bank tax). How do those states do in attracting…