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Aberdeen EcDev Boss: Good Teachers for Immigrants Key to Workforce Growth

Aberdeen Development Corporation CEO Mike Bockorny briefed the Brown County Commission this morning on his organization's current aims. Bockorny, who took the ADC reins last August. Bockorny upheld the conventional wisdom that they greatest obstacle to economic development in South…

BBC Profiles Karen Workers at Huron Turkey Plant

It's –7°F in Huron this morning. Who'd give up tropical sunshine for weather like that? Political refugees from Burma/Myanmar, that's who. The Karen people are an ethnic group from Southeast Asia. About 50,000 have come to America to escape political…

Missing Element of South Dakota Workforce Plan: Immigration

The obvious solution to South Dakota's vo-tech workforce shortage is higher wages. But if our business and political leaders are committed to ignoring that option, perhaps we can consider another solution: immigrants. The Pew Charitable Trusts just issued a report…

Thune Backs Cruz on Attempt to Torpedo Spending Bill on Immigration Gripe

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, like South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley, continues to build his radical conservative brand for the next election by wasting the people's time by futilely bashing the President. During the Senate debate on the stopgap spending…

Jackley Joins Texas+15 Lawsuit over Presidential Immigration Action

Attorney General Marty Jackley could be interrogating, arresting, and suing Joop Bollen. He could be arresting Chad Haber for hiding his campaign finance reports for six weeks and counting. Instead, AG Jackley is wasting his time on another anti-Obama court…

South Dakota Hog Farmer “Almost Going to Have to” Hire Illegal Immigrants

Agricultural industry groups complain that President Barack Obama's immigration action won't help them find the workers they need to bring home the bacon. In a brilliant display of rationalization, Hurley hog farmer Steve Schmiechel says the President's inaction and the…

President Obama All Action, Congress All Talk on Immigration Reform

Like Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, President Barack Obama is using his executive authority to tackle immigration problems. Specifically, President Obama announced last night that he is inviting more than four million illegal immigrants who…

Bollen, Benda, Obama Killed EB-5 in South Dakota, Not Ross and Mercer

Joop Bollen is trying to distract the Government Operations and Audit Committee from his illegitimate contract with himself, his apparent mismanagement of Northern Beef Packers, and his multiple violations of state policy and law by claiming that reporters like Denise…