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Article: South Dakota.(State of the States)
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- The Bond Buyer
- Article date:
- October 16, 1995
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Some states would pay to be able to boast as South Dakota's officials do of a history of 106 years of balanced budgets.That leaves diversification of the state's economy as the focus of Gov. William Janklow's administration. The Republican was re-elected to the post in 1994, having already served as South Dakota's governor from 1979-1987.
Janklow started this economic diversification in his first term, and subsequent governors have carried on the effort.
South Dakota officials now say the state has a more broad-based economy that is no longer at the mercy of the business cycle. Recently state officials noted some positive feathers in South Dakota's ...