SOUTH DAKOTA

Several Sioux tribes are struggling to come up with $9 million to purchase Pe’ Sla, a sacred parcel of land seized long ago by the government in violation of treaties.

"In the end, everyone works together so that rural communities can address a broad range of other needs such as regional based planning and leadership development."

We need to give a little encouragement to citizens that and there are, despite the headlines, successful cities in America.

No more than 32 companies ultimately have benefited, perhaps fewer. Twenty have headquarters in South Dakota; three are based in foreign countries.

The SDTBC, located in Sioux Falls, S.D., is an on-going effort to diversify and grow the regional economy by assisting in creation and expansion of technology-based business in the area.

Current South Dakota law gives partial refunds of sales taxes and contractor’s excise taxes to large construction projects, but that law expires Dec. 31.

"Now we’re back and saying we want the best teachers to teach our children."

Seventy percent of South Dakotans attending one of the state’s six public universities will remain here after graduation to either work or pursue more education, the study found. And further, three out of every 10 out-of-state students also will remain in South Dakota once they graduate from the public universities.

The trouble is, it’s not nearly enough.