Under Toby's apt inquiry into the South Dakota values expressed by Governor Dennis Daugaard's State of the State address, eager reader Wayne questions the Governor's cherry-picking of economic data: "In the third quarter last year, personal income growth compared to…
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Madville Times' Senior/Founding Blogger listened to Governor Dennis Daugaard's State of the State speech yesterday afternoon and heard the message loud and clear that the top priority for this administration is maintaining a strong "business climate" in the state of…
In his State of the State Address this afternoon, Governor Dennis Daugaard served up a couple of policy proposals that suggest smarter investment of economic development dollars. Speaking to a joint session of the Legislature, Governor Daugaard says he intends…
Governor Dennis Daugaard says that two programs of the Governor's Office of Economic Development need money right now. Senate Bill 53 asks for an immediate infusion of $500,000 into the New South Dakotans and Dakota Roots programs. New South Dakotans…
Governor Dennis Daugaard affirms what I've been telling you since October and what some of his allies have been striving mightily to deny—the investigation of the Governor's Office of Economic Development and South Dakota's EB-5 program has serious policy implications:…
It's official: you can now refer to the GOED/EB-5/Benda scandal as South Dakota's Watergate. Governor Dennis Daugaard's review of the finances of three programs under his beleaguered Office of Economic Development is being delayed by missing records: GOED Commissioner Pat…
Governor Dennis Daugaard's FY2015 budget proposal includes a boost to this fiscal year's corrections budget of $4 million. The Governor says we need to pump $4 million more into our prisons to fix a "correctional healthcare shortfall" arising from "significant…
Governor Daugaard is clearly teasing me. How can I resist? FOR RELEASE: Monday, December 16, 2013 CONTACT: Natalie Likness, Governor’s Office of Economic Development, 605.773.3301 Gov. Daugaard Returning to China, Inviting Business Leaders to Join Him PIERRE, S.D. – This…