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Housing: South Dakota No Longer Much Cheaper Than Minnesota
1+ week, 4+ day ago (415+ words) South Dakota Searchlight prints Nina Luz’s write-up of Dakota Institute fellow and Northern State University economist Dr. Aaron Scholl’s June analysis of housing affordability in South Dakota. The unpleasant conclusion: South Dakota can no longer claim much of an advantage…...
LRC: Good Data Center Policy Requires Transparency from Developers
2+ week, 1+ day ago (703+ words) To define “hyperscale”, LRC turns to the International Energy Agency and the Congressional Research Service to put together these criteria: LRC says no data centers in South Dakota have reached those criteria, although the current biggest data center, Big Watt…...
Manufacturing Surged After Tariffs Fell; Tariffs Didn’t Reverse Decline in Factory Production
2+ week, 5+ day ago (193+ words) Dakota Free Press Manufacturing Surged After Tariffs Fell; Tariffs Didn’t Reverse Decline in Factory Production Cato Institute economist Scott Lincicome posts some charts busting White House propaganda about tariffs and manufacturing. Of particular interest is Lincicome’s finding that since November…...
Canada Offers Example of Electronic Petitioning for Participatory Democracy
4+ week, 5+ hour ago (272+ words) Last year Donald Trump sent Dutch immigrant and longtime Michigan politician Pete Hoekstra to Canada as our ambassador. A lot of Canadians want to send him back: An official petition before Canada’s House of Commons has gained thousands of signatures…...
Trump Attacks Canada, Hurts American Border Businesses – Dakota Free Press
4+ week, 6+ hour ago (316+ words) Donald Trump’s policy of pissing off Canada is killing income and jobs in our small northern border towns: Deb Weigel…[is] the manager of Corner Parcel in Pembina, a town of 500 in the northeast corner of North Dakota, right on…...