OMAHA, NE (KELO.com) — The regional manufacturing economy is off to a good start for 2025, but slow-going in South Dakota. Creighton University’s Mid-America Business Conditions Index is showing its first positive reading in eight months. Economist, Dr. Ernie Goss says hiring improved in many of the nine states in the survey. But South Dakota suffered a 12.4-percent decline in manufacturing exports from last year, and that was reflected in the state’s hiring numbers…