Gov. Kristi Noem announced Thursday that public and private K-12 schools across the state will get an extra $500 per student from the $1.25 billion the state received from the CARES Act.
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- A day after calling for healing and peace as a country, South Dakota’s governor is alleging “communists” have infiltrated the United States Senate.
- Promises of respect for all South Dakotans, telling the truth and encouraging everyone to get out and vote dominated a campaign rally speech from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jamie Smith Friday
- People gathered at Mount Rushmore for a naturalization ceremony held by the U.S. District Court and the Mount Rushmore Society. 55 people from 29 countries took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States and received citizenship certificates.
- Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals.
- Rapid City elected both its first Black woman and first openly LGBTQ person to the Rapid City Area Schools Board of Education.
- The chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party has a separate job that pays him $10,000 a month to inform government officials, the public and the media about Saudia Arabia, but when he was asked to talk about it this…
- If he was paying attention, the South Dakota Attorney General should have been able to see the pedestrian before, during and after he fatally crashed into him in September, investigators said in interview videos released on Tuesday.
- I was honored to teach political science courses at SDSU for 38 years. I confess that during those years I was committed to indoctrinating our students, not with a leftist ideology or an intent to stir division, but with the…
- John Thune was one of only a handful without a mask of the entire U.S. Congress who attended Senator Dole’s funeral Thursday in the Capitol rotunda. How embarrassing and disrespectful.
- If Governor Noem wants to hire $600/hour Washington lawyers to challenge the Mount Rushmore fireworks ban she should pay for it from the campaign money she raises on her speaking tours in Texas and Florida, not from our taxpayer dollars.
- Gov. Kristi Noem’s office is declining to disclose the amount it cost the state to send her on numerous campaign appearances for President Trump. It would not provide the travel costs or security costs, including for the Highway Patrol detail…
- An author of one of five book titles removed from classrooms and that could be destroyed by the Rapid City Area School district said Wednesday he will provide free copies of the books to any Rapid City high school student…
- Marty Two Bulls Sr. was out getting coffee when he was named a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning.
