Let's review: Forward Madison is an investment initiative that has embraced the community and surrounding county. The goals are to create 400 new jobs over the next 5 years, to increase the population of Lake County, to increase the sales…
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The Rapid City Journal offers an interactive map of the newly released Census 2010 data for South Dakota. Our fair state's population grew 7.9% over the past decade, to 814,180. Unfortunately, Lake County didn't share in that growth: our official…
My friend and Brookings Middle School art teacher Eileen Hall puts Governor Dennis Daugaard's proposed 10% cut state K-12 education funding (and the potential impacts on the Brookings School District that raised her so well) in personal perspective: My name…
Even as he proposes 10% cuts to education, Medicaid, and other vital social services, Governor Dennis Daugaard wants to extend handouts to big corporations, in hopes of drawing more business to the state. (That bill, HB 1230, is on the…
I'm not the only person concerned that Governor Dennis Daugaard's austere fiscal principles may lack consistency. Consider the points from Bob Mercer and David Montgomery, who get paid good money to think and write about issues like this. Montgomery gently…
I'm having fun reading the I-29 Corridor analysis and growth strategy (draft PDF version available via Yankton city website). This project is then Brookings mayor, now District 7 State Rep. Scott Munsterman's brainchild to get everybody from Watertown down to…
Congratulations to John Seward of Brookings, who is heading to Rapid City to direct the Main Street Square project. Seward is apparently a big part of why downtown Brookings looks so busy and beautiful: he's come up with all sorts…
As I consider the Madison Chamber's ambitious goal to boost sales more than 50%, and as I read the I-29 Corridor regional development stategy, I find an article that suggests a route for industrial recruitment that could support both local…