As expected, Dwaine Chapel's presentation to the Madison City Commission last night underwhelmed. The Lake Area Improvement Corporation director came before Madison's elected officials to pitch Forward Madison II, an economic development initiative proposed to build on the failure of…
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Brace yourselves: Dwaine Chapel will mumble more dispassionate gobbledygook to the Madison City Commission Monday night in the ongoing effort to redistribute wealth from Madison's taxpayers to Madison's business elites. The LAIC exec comes before the commission to pitch Forward…
Unemployment in Lake County has dropped to its lowest level since Barack Obama won the 2008 election. South Dakota Department of Labor data show the jobless rate around Madison dropped from 4.3% in October to 4.0% in November. Alas, the…
Lake County enjoyed another job surge in October. The latest data from the South Dakota Department of Labor show 105 more people raised their hands in October in Lake County and said, "We want to work!" Lake County managed to…
The Lake Area Improvement Corporation commissions former Madison resident, now Prairie Business editor Alan Van Ormer to write more propaganda for Madison's business "leaders." The result so doggedly rejects logic, so blatantly denies reality, so unashamedly whimpers and lies about…
While the Lake Area Improvement Corporation beats the drum on its tax increment finance district efforts, it assiduously avoids mentioning the continuing failure of its mostly dead Forward Madison initiative. According to the latest statistics from the South Dakota Department…
Why not: let's give Ashley Allen a triple shot for the day! Here's an open letter Mr. Allen has posted on his community development Facebook page: Ask yourself these questions: How do you define economic development? Would you say that…
Madison resident and telecommuter extraordinaire Ashley Allen attended last night's Madison City Commission meeting to ask for some accountability in the public dollars handed out to the Lake Area Improvement Corporation. Allen raised a number of issues that call into…