Jonathan Ellis
Founder and Reporter at The Dakota Scout
Bringing news as a founder of @TheDakotaScout. I also coach soccer. Formerly @argusleader @usatoday
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3 days ago |
thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis
PIERRE – A committee that is studying prison locations and sizes voted Tuesday night to eliminate a controversial plan to put a 1,500-bed men’s prison south of Harrisburg in Lincoln County. The committee also voted to eliminate the Huron site, a site in Minnehaha County, and the former Citibank property in north Sioux Falls, while also proceeding with options for what $600 million could get the state.
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6 days ago |
thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis
South Dakota’s fastest growing city saw another jump in people moving to its expanding borders – once again leading the state in population growth, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates. But the growth in Harrisburg didn’t hit the double-digit figures that it had hit in the previous three years. The 8.35 percent from July 1, 2023 to July 1, 2024 was about 3 percentage points lower than two of the previous three years.
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1 week ago |
thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis
A San Angelo, Texas, man who owns property in Meade County wasn’t happy about his neighbor’s hay operation on July 20, 2022. Levi Stark claims that Reed VanDervoort, or somebody under VanDervoort’s direction, was operating a swather. There were dangerous fire conditions that day, and the swather started a wildfire, sparking either from the machine itself or when it struck a rock, Stark alleges in a court filing.
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1 week ago |
thedakotascout.com | Joe Sneve |Jonathan Ellis
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:03:37Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Did you miss last week’s episode of The Scouting Report? Downloaded hundreds of times since subscribers of The Dakota Scout received it in their inboxes last week, there’s still time to catch up, hit the link below to listen to ‘A governor's visit, arm wrestling the boss, wrangling Rasner, taking notes & auditor aspirations’ and check out all past shows by visiting the podcast archive.
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1 week ago |
thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis
A group of Custer County residents is taking the city of Custer to court in an effort to block the city’s project to expand its wastewater services. Preserve French Creek is back in court for a second time – this time federal court – after losing a lawsuit in the state court system. The lawsuit also names the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, as well as various Custer and state officials.
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A couple weeks ago I joked with @JamieSmith_SD that at $825M for a new prison, maybe we would be better off contracting our prisons with El Salvador. Today we learned it's actually $2 billion. Not so funny. https://t.co/CdHzHVQ1jd
This case enraged members of the ranching community and saw @SenatorRounds and @RepDustyJohnson intervene on behalf of Charles and Heather Maude. https://t.co/xZxzAq9FJL
At the Hansen/Lems campaign announcement. Hard to gauge crowd size. Lots of people on the main floor and more upstairs. But safe to say it’s hundreds. https://t.co/WakPqs7m4e
