Yesterday I reviewed the election picks of the participants in the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce Business Caucus. Today, let's look at the media habits and policy leanings revealed by that straw poll. The Chamber asked Business Caucus participants to…
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Bob Mercer notes who would get the Chamber of Commerce Business Caucus vote for Governor and President. Right now, these Main Streeters' top picks are Matt Michels and Hillary Clinton. The gubernatorial straw poll rejects the perhaps conventional view purveyed…
We had some grim fun last fall discussing Belle Fourche's self-destructive attitude toward its Chamber of Commerce. In October, the city council manufactured concerns about financial transparency, threatened to kick the Chamber out of the Center of the Nation visitor…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports a tax increase! Chamber chief Thomas J. Donhue went before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Wednesday to invoke Ronald Reagan in the Chamber's call for a higher federal gasoline tax: ...let’s…
The South Dakota Chamber of Commerce is throwing its weight behind the Common Core education standards: David Owen, the chamber’s president, said today that he’ll officially announce the endorsement on Friday morning. "We believe we need rigorous standards," Owen said.…
So it was all personal. Back in October, the Belle Fourche City Council decided to kick the Chamber of Commerce out of the Center of the Nation Visitor Center that the Chamber pretty much built and ran for 20 years.…
If the Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce still plans to challenge the city's politically reeking ill treatment, it will do so without Teresa Schanzenbach. In what feels like a capitulation to political pressure, the Belle Fourche Chamber fired executive director…
The Black Hills Pioneer leads coverage of the Belle Fourche brouhaha with the headline that Chamber of Commerce President Jeff Otterman has resigned from the Chamber board. I've met Otterman; he's a smart, decent guy, and the Chamber will be…