Last week the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that South Dakota had the lowest positive real GDP growth in the country in 2012. The BEA also reported that South Dakota's real per capita GDP dropped slightly, compared to slight growth…
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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…
An eager reader points me toward a USDA analysis that should distress anyone interested in economic development in South Dakota: for the first time, non-metro countries in the United States have experienced a net population loss. 46.2 million of us…
South Dakota has a higher rate of births to unwed moms than any neighboring state. We have more people, but fewer are getting married: from 2000 to 2011, the marriage rate dropped from 9.1 per thousand residents to 7.5. And…
Four years in, President Obama still hasn't taken away any of your guns. If you're an American, you probably have more guns than you did four years ago. South Dakotans are among the most gun-acquisitive folks in the nation. According…
My research for my latest South Dakota Magazine post revealed a South Dakota-culture-jamming statistic. Go to Governor Daugaard's own economic development website. Dennis has a nice little widget that lets prospective business recruits and the rest of us commoners compare…
Mr. Mercer continues to deplore the South Dakota Democratic Party's poor performance in voter registration totals, and rightfully so. According to Secretary of State Jason Gant's latest numbers, on October 1, 187,063 South Dakota voters were registered Democrats. We Dems…
Gordon Howie pushes paranoia and fascist theocracy with tired, vague, repetitive posts. Ed Randazzo throws smug insults and occasionally slips into plagiarism. A month after I alerted them to the problem, they still haven't fixed their broken comment widget, which…