Larry Pressler's pipeline plan is already rolling. The Dakota Access oil pipeline would ship Bakken oil from North Dakota to Patokia, Illinois, refineries. Thirty inches wide and moving 450,000 barrels per day, Dakota Access would match the first Keystone pipeline…
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My friend Frank Kloucek notes that neighbors in Tyndall and Yankton have a chance today to get educated about tax-based incentives. Kloucek sends a press release noting that Iowa State University economist David Swenson will speak today on "The Rationale,…
At the end of the Mike Rounds Administration, South Dakota's cost of living was 98.5% of the national average. At the end of the second quarter of this year, South Dakota's cost of living was 100.8% of the national average.…
The South Dakota Budget and Policy Project has just issued a report analyzing the impact of Initiated Measure 18, the ballot proposal to increase South Dakota's minimum wage. The highlights that should inform your vote: 64,000 South Dakotans will get…
A South Dakota Republican Party press release (apparently from Dick Wadhams) claims that the EB-5 visa investment program brought over $600 million into South Dakota and that Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Rick Weiland is a poopyhead for criticizing his…
As Governor Daugaard begins dog-and-pony-showing the results of his Workforce Summits, newly Hillsified Seth Tupper takes a look at the tight labor supply in Rapid City. Predictably, we get some smoke about how far a dollar stretches in South Dakota.…
...and your gasoline prices will still go up. A new study from researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute (based in the U.S., not Sweden) says the U.S. State Department could be off by a factor of four in its estimate…
Temporarily out of press releases from his GOP overlords, Pat Powers squawks in confused triumph over a Minnesota café that is adding a 35-cent "minimum wage fee" to every customer's bill. Minnesota just increased its minimum wage last Friday. Minnesota…