Hat tip to David Newquist for irony of the week! Joop Bollen has made a living by coordinating government intrusions in the marketplace. For nearly twenty years, as director of the South Dakota International Business Institute under the Board of…
Posts tagged as “housing”
In a sign that someone was drinking too much beer (or not enough Crow Peak Beer), Nerd Wallet lists the ten best towns in South Dakota to for young families and ranks Spearfish only ninth... behind North Sioux City: 4.…
Why would South Dakotans want to let TransCanada run another tar sands pipeline through their backyard, when even a federal pipeline safety official says he wouldn't buy or build a house along the pipeline route? The official, Bill Lowery, is…
Boyd County (Nebraska)'s resolution of opposition to the Niobrara/Ponca conservation plan and to government land ownership and conservation in general declares this public goal: ...to discourage land use development or use that will lower or impair the value of the…
Want to know how a Tax Increment Finance District works? Check out my November 2007 explanation, back when Madison created its first TIF district for Randy Schaefer's housing project. Madison and Lake County are on their way to establishing a…
CNN Money lists what they call the 50 best small towns in the United States. They fail to include anyplace in South Dakota on that list. Seriously? Have you people not been to Spearfish?! The survey looked at towns with…
If you're feeling economical this fine summer morning, read finance professor Noah Smith's evaluation of six major conservative arguments about the 2007–2009 recession and the recovery. Smith finds all six mostly wrong: Fannie, Freddie, and the Community Reinvestment Act caused…
In the thick of the Bakken oil boom, Williams County finds some profiteers not paying their bills. Companies operating temporary housing—the infamous man camps—around Williston owe Williams County over three million dollars in fees related to their conditional use permits.…