John Hult
Senior Reporter at South Dakota Searchlight
Storyteller. South Dakotan. Agitating in the public interest. Senior reporter for @SDSearchlight. Got news tips? Hit me: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
southdakotasearchlight.com | John Hult
A drugmaker is suing South Dakota over a law that bars the company from limiting drug discounts used to prop up providers who serve Medicaid patients. The lawsuit is from Chicago-based AbbVie Inc., which sells the wrinkle-remover Botox and the arthritis drug Humira, among other products. The litigation challenges the legality of a bill signed into law by South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden on March 11.
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1 week ago |
plaintalk.net | John Hult
SIOUX FALLS — Twenty people lined up Thursday, April 3, at the Military Heritage Alliance to share their thoughts on South Dakota’s correctional needs with the group of lawmakers and other assorted officials tasked with finding ways to address prison overcrowding. There was talk of offender re-entry, rehabilitation and second chances. The state penitentiary in Sioux Falls was called unsafe and inadequate, but also endorsed as a building with life left in it.
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2 weeks ago |
teaweekly.com | John Hult
By John HultSIOUX FALLS — A $729,000 consultant contract will be added to the roughly $50 million South Dakota has already spent on a stalled prison construction effort. State officials signed a contract this week to pay a consultant to repeat and update a $323,000 prison facilities report that has framed three years of discussions on the state’s correctional needs.
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2 weeks ago |
rapidcityjournal.com | John Hult
MITCHELL — Taneeza Islam’s nonprofit organization represents unaccompanied children as young as 5 years old in immigration court. In March, she learned that the federal government canceled the anti-human-trafficking grant that pays groups like hers to represent kids facing deportation. Her organization, South Dakota Voices for Peace, lost about $325,000.
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2 weeks ago |
rapidcityjournal.com | John Hult
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Is South Dakota spending too much for its prison? Should it be spending less on a few smaller prisons? If the House of Representatives shoots down the big prison plan tomorrow afternoon, we'll be asking a lot more questions like that. https://t.co/RA3GwcBZ9G
All stops pulled out for Aberdeen day at the Capitol. A note from this Huron native, though: the Fair City is and will forever hold the pheasant crown. https://t.co/nbmvUV0LX0
A blink-and-you-missed-it bill in the SD legislature would shield Uber from product liability lawsuits. It sailed through committee without opposition. Uber's already required to carry a million bucks in liability insurance, company reps said.https://t.co/0s9DMsohLa
