South Dakota

The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of four senators weigh in on the states' ability to collect online sales taxes in friend-of-the-court briefs filed with the Supreme Court.

South Dakota, which has no state income tax and relies on sales and use taxes for much of its revenue, will make its oral arguments to the high court on April 17.

Issuers in the Midwest sold $82.98 billion of debt last year, a 5% drop from 2016.

If the debate leading up to a Wessington Springs School District bond election is any indication, residents can expect a close race when polls close Nov. 28.

It's back to the drawing board for Groton Area School District.

Issuers in the Midwest sold $87.2 billion of municipal bonds in 2016, a 23.4% year-over-year increase that was the biggest of any region.

The issuers of the Midwest sold $41 billion of municipal bonds in the first half of 2016, spurred by increased new money issuance, according to Thomson Reuters data.

South Dakota can now claim three top-level credit ratings after Moody’s Investors Service assigned an initial issuer credit rating of Aaa.

South Dakota won a second triple-A rating as Fitch Ratings upgraded the state to AAA citing ample reserve balances and history of maintaining budgetary balance.