Gerard Depardieu and other fat-cats may have the luxury of moving to grandstand over taxes, but most of us are tied to our homes by more than the local tax structure. Tax rates just don't drive migration as much as…
Posts tagged as “Minnesota”
The pluto-corporate propaganda mill is in full churn promoting the Michigan GOP's push for new anti-union "right-to-work" laws. Someone sends Pat Powers a slew of correlation-causality-conflating quotes to run on his blog to convince us that everything comes up roses…
Does ethanol cause competition between fuel and food? Livestock producers think so. Faced with the current widespread drought, the National Pork Producers Council, the National Chicken Council (no, really!), the National Turkey Federation, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and several…
Our neighbors in Minnesota are likely to have on their November ballot a constitutional amendment to require voters to show photo ID at the polls. The Winona Daily News points out two relevant numbers: "The Minnesota Secretary of State's Office…
Mr. Kurtz points out this Mother Jones article which documents South Dakota's continued dependence on the federal government for its economic well-being. Crunching 2010 Census and IRS data reveals that South Dakota receives $1.58 from Uncle Sam for every dollar…
I am thankful that South Dakota Public Radio provides its great mix of news and music programming to counter the mindless commercial drivel and conformity coming out of most radio stations in South Dakota. But with their in-house music staff…
The Gary, South Dakota, office of Wayne Viessman of Viessman Trucking is listed as the business address of Lake County Dairy LLC, which organized this spring and bought the Swier Dairy near Ramona, eight miles north of my house. Another…
Mike Knutson of the Rural Learning Center draws our attention to research by Ben Winchester, University of Minnesota Extension, on small-town strategies for attracting and retaining new residents. Winchester analyzed data from 53 surveys and focus group conversations with relatively…