One more detail sneaks out of Denise Ross's report on Joop Bollen's inept management of Northern Beef Packers. The South Dakota Banking Commission may have exempted an honest-to-goodness bank from our bank franchise tax: Kang said once it became clear…
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District 28 Senate candidate Rep. Betty Olson (R-Prairie City) earned herself some media attention this week. It seems only fair that we give her opponent in the Senate race, Parade Democrat Oren Lesmeister, a little air time. Lesmeister runs Fox…
On May 11, 2011, attorney Jeff Sveen wrote a letter saying that his client, SDRC Inc., functioned like a bank: SDRC, Inc. does not promote economic development, but simply obtains funding through EB-5 and functions similar to a bank by…
Mike Rounds's campaign manager Rob Skjønsberg has been burning up Twitter saying Rick Weiland is an extreme, far left liberal whose views are out of synch with South Dakotans... ...as opposed to the liberal, red-state-moocher policies of Rounds, Daugaard, and…
Larry Kurtz gets me reading this Wallet Hub ranking of the fairness of state tax systems. Wallet Hub asked 1,050 Americans to say what percentage (between 0 and 25) of income households in ten income brackets ought to pay in…
...But Is Banking Commission Already on That Case? The Brown County Commission today voted 4–1 in favor of a resolution brought by Commissioner Tom Fischbach to ask the State Banking Commission to determine whether GOED/NBP/EB-5 scandal figure Joop Bollen evaded…
Word of the day: Capone! Remember how last November I mentioned that EB-5/Northern Beef Packers scandal fulcrum Joop Bollen might have broken the law by lending money without a license and not paying bank franchise tax? I elaborated on that…
Todd Epp of Northern Plains News finds an interesting report from the Tax Foundation stating that South Dakota is the fifth-best state for stretching a dollar: Only Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and Alabama can make a dollar go further. Dollars shrink…