Forbes releases another ranking of the Best States for Business. The good news: South Dakota is #11! The bad news: the People's Republic of Minnesota is 8th. state ranks (Forbes, Sep 2013) ND NE MN SD IA WY MT Business…
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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…
While South Dakota concentrates on recruiting gunmakers and failure-prone beef plants and mega-dairies to boost its economy, the Twin Cities continue to draw the big money. Here's the WonkBlog's take on metro-Minnesota's pretty good job opportunities: Minnesota unemployment usually tracks…
We like to throw around all sorts of indicators here on the blog to argue about which states offer the best quality of life. Personal income growth, GDP, education funding, health care costs, strip clubs per capita... can any one…
Even before Donald Pay broke the news that South Dakota may be angling for a nuclear waste dump, South Dakota ex-pat Joe Loveland wrote this funny, sharp rejection of Governor Dennis Daugaard's Minnesotan recruiting pitch. Loveland acknowledges the appeal of…
You may have read my top-of-the-morning post yesterday on South Dakota's anemic GDP growth for 2012, a meager 0.2% uptick for the year. Then you may have read the state economic development honcho Pat Costello's announcement that South Dakota's GDP…
Legislator turned Tower Erector lobbyist Todd Schlekeway stops by the Mall of America to get his picture taken at South Dakota's famous marketing kiosk: "No Personal Income Tax Means YOU KEEP 7% MORE* of Your Paycheck," reads the kiosk sign…
Maybe Governor Daugaard should recruit some bridge engineers from Minnesota. Governing compiles Federal Highway Administration bridge inspection data for 2012 and finds that South Dakota ties with Rhode Island for the fourth-highest percentage of structurally deficient bridges in the nation,…