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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thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis
On a sunny morning near the Big Sioux River on Thursday, Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken threw some shade on the idea of building a new men’s prison near the existing South Dakota State Penitentiary. TenHaken was joined by Rep. Greg Jamison, a member of Gov. Larry Rhoden’s Project Prison Reset Task Force. That group has winnowed down a list of four potential sites for a new men’s prison – including about 27 acres of land owned by the state across the Big Sioux River Diversion Channel.
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thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis
Organizations that provide services to the state’s population of intellectually disabled residents have seven days to submit their top two or three requests for regulatory changes to a legislative committee studying the issue. That was the final request of the committee following its first meeting in Sioux Falls Wednesday. The committee is one of a handful that legislators created to tackle special issues that could then be addressed by the full Legislature next year.
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thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis
Heavier vehicles and trucks will pay more in Minnehaha County after the County Commission voted Tuesday to raise the wheel tax. Vehicles weighing 6,000 pounds or more would see an increase of $4 a wheel to $5. The county would also tax more wheels than it has. State law allows up to 12 wheels. Now just four wheels are taxed on all vehicles registered in the county.
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thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis
A retired Marine Corps officer who sought records related to what he claims is a 40-year-old murder attempt lost his case when a federal judge dismissed his lawsuit Friday. Rory Walsh had sought letters of censure and reprimand he claimed were issued against two Marine Corps general officers. Walsh filed a request for the letters under the federal Freedom of Information Act. He then sued the Department of the Navy in 2023 when the letters were not produced.
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thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis
North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer joined a Democratic colleague urging the U.S. Army to approve a waiver allowing the U.S. Corps of Engineers to hire seasonal workers at sites across the country. Cramer, a Republican who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, wrote a letter with Sen. Angela Alsobrooks to secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll and Lt. Gen.
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Does this end it? If history and Star Wars are on script, likely not. But those of us in my generation have lived with this issue for almost 50 years. https://t.co/5oK3cS7iQD
Crazy how stuff gets so expensive as soon as you move north across the Nebraska/South Dakota border. https://t.co/yUrP7TUTvY
It seems nobody wants a new prison. Even the place where the old one has been for 150 years. https://t.co/uvsAW3876q
