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Man who says he can move TikTok to South Dakota is a bust in Wyoming politics

1 week ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley |John Hult

Excluding the money he loaned himself, Reid Rasner raised less than $35,000 for his failed attempt to unseat a U.S. senator last year. This year, the 41-year-old Wyoming Republican says he’s assembled more than a million times that amount to buy the social media app TikTok and potentially move its operations to South Dakota.
Lalley: What if Sioux Falls said no?

1 week ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley

Wait a minute. So, you’re saying that if the mayor of a town says the community doesn’t want a prison then there’s no prison. Or if people send a lot of emails. No prison. Fellow Sioux Fallsians, all we have to do is compose a series of strongly worded emails and the Department of Corrections will move on. That’s the lesson if Mitchell – initially named one of the top locations for a prison to replace the current South Dakota State Penitentiary – is no mas.
South Dakota governor leads trade mission to Israel

2 weeks ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley |Hunter Dunteman

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden is leading a trade mission in Israel, he announced Monday. The trade delegation is hosting a seminar “focused on recruiting foreign direct investment into the state,” according to a press release from the governor’s office.
Mobile clinics aim to boost rural health care measles vaccinations amid outbreak

2 weeks ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley |Joshua Haiar

The South Dakota Department of Health plans to send its fledgling mobile clinics to underserved and undervaccinated areas of the state in response to the nationwide measles outbreak making its way to the state. Last year, South Dakota reported its first measles case in nine years. The state Department of Health recently reported the state’s first case this year in Meade County in western South Dakota. Last week, on Friday, a second case was reported in Rapid City.
Q&A: Retiring library leader says the future is bright, despite recent criticism of librarians

3 weeks ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley |Jordan Roemeling

Her career is ending amid legislative attacks on her profession, but Jodi Fick still thinks “the sky’s the limit” for libraries. Fick has been working in libraries since 1983 and has led Siouxland Libraries’ 13 branch locations in Sioux Falls and the surrounding area since 2017. She’s retiring on June 20. South Dakota lawmakers nearly passed a bill earlier this year that would have subjected librarians to criminal prosecution for disseminating obscene books to children.
Lalley: Dear softball parents, shut up

3 weeks ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley

Like a lot of parents, Miss Ohio and I are deep into youth sports. Did not see this coming, if I’m being honest. In fact, if you’d have asked me a few years ago if we’d ever find ourselves plopped in camp chairs next to a softball diamond in various spots around the Upper Midwest for hours on end riding the emotional roller coaster of elation tied to the success of a 14-year-old young woman… well, that’s just not a reality that could have been imagined. We were a bike racing family.
Lalley: Sharks in the chlorinated water of Frank Olson

3 weeks ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley

Just when we thought it was safe to go back into the chlorinated water of a new indoor recreation center at Frank Olson Park. It wasn’t exactly a “Jaws” reboot at the Sioux Falls City Council’s weekly informational meeting on Tuesday. There wasn’t any blood. But if you listened real hard there was a tension-building baseline in the background. Daaa-DU-Daaa-Du.Just like in Steven Spielberg’s classic, you don’t have to see the shark to know there’s a problem. We may need a bigger boat.
Lalley: A year of living dangerously

3 weeks ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley

Several converging factors will shift the political landscape of the Best Little City in America in the next year or so. Whether that’s a good thing or not we don’t know but there are reasons to be apprehensive. A caveat, these are governmental influences, things that have been done or will be done by people elected to public office. Sometimes, that can seem like a different world altogether from the day-to-day grind that each of us accomplishes to varying degrees of success.
Sioux Falls Arts Commission hoping to expand opportunities for artists

4 weeks ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley

The Sioux Falls Arts Commission wants to open up opportunities for artists in the city with some new initiatives and spread public art into neighborhoods. The Arts Commission is working with neighborhood associations to bring more art installations into those spaces and to public libraries in the downtown area.
Who's at the Levitt this weekend?

1 month ago | siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley

It might seem odd at first that one of the most popular songs by a band from Louisiana is about South Dakota. But in this case, we’ll allow it. The Deslondes band is headlining Friday night at the Levitt, bringing their southern twang to downtown Sioux Falls. “South Dakota Wild One” — one of their most popular tunes — is sure to be on the set list.