Growth: First-quarter taxable sales, purchases up 14.5 percent
July 19, 2012 at 1:55 am in The Jamestown Sun
North Dakota’s taxable sales and purchases for the first quarter of 2012 are up more than 52 percent statewide from 2011, according to a report released Wednesday by the North Dakota Tax Commissioner’s Office.
“This report shows that the growth and strength of the economy is across the entire state in almost all of the industry sectors,” said Cory Fong, state tax commissioner. Continue Reading

Actually, terrynelson, residents of Jamestown should be proud. Not only do they continue to prop up Fargo’s economy as you regularly remind us, but they managed to increase their own economy’s taxable income by nearly 15 percent. Also, as far as facts, perhaps you skipped the percentage lessons in elementary school math. I’ll let you work it out on your own, but you will find that Jamestown’s economy is actually growing at a faster rate than, gasp, Fargo!
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Don’t get mad, I’m just giving you the facts.
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Isn’t it time for “terrynelson” to change his name again?
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Andrew the dude isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. He has proved that over and over on here. He is nothing but a hater and haters are gonna hate.
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Fargo and Jamestown are two very separate and very different economic, geographic and populace places. Neither is good, bad, better or worse than the other. They are just different. Different is what makes the world great. Terrynelson is living proof of that.
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