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1 week ago | 
newscenter1.tv | Patrick Lalley |Trent Singer
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.
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2 weeks ago | 
siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley |Hunter Dunteman
Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken announced a leadership shakeup in his office Monday that he says will strengthen his administration’s focus heading into the final stretch of his second term. Public Relations and Communications Officer Vanessa Gomez will be promoted to chief of staff, while Jenna Harris, who currently serves as a policy advisor, will transition to policy and strategic initiatives advisor. The changes take effect on June 30, according to a news release.
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2 weeks ago | 
newscenter1.tv | Patrick Lalley |Joshua Haiar
The trade delegation is hosting a seminar “focused on recruiting foreign direct investment into the state.” South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden speaks during a press conference Jan. 29, 2025, at the Capitol in Pierre.
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1 month ago | 
mitchellrepublic.com | Patrick Lalley |Patrick Lalley
It turns out that lots of South Dakota communities want to be the site of the next state penitentiary. And a few of them have a pretty good pitch. Mitchell, Aberdeen and Huron were among the dozen new sites forwarded since Gov. Larry Rhoden “reset” the discussion following months of acrimonious debate over plans for a new 1,500 bed prison just south of Sioux Falls, the price tag for which is creeping ever closer to $1 billion. There were eight more proposals for spots in the metro as well.
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1 month ago | 
thedakotascout.com | Jonathan Ellis |Patrick Lalley
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2 months ago | 
siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley |Jonathan Ellis
South Dakota continued to expand its industrial hemp footprint in 2024 as Texas quickly gained ground, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Hemp Report . As defined in the 2018 Farm Bill, the term “hemp” is a cannabis plant with a no more than 0.3% concentration of the chemical that results in a high, known as THC. According to the report, which was released on Thursday, South Dakota farmers planted 3,900 acres of hemp – a 22% increase from 2023.
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2 months ago | 
siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley |Stu Whitney
The scene outside Thursday’s Watertown Rotary luncheon turned raucous in the presence of South Dakota’s senior U.S. senator. Not long after the event, staffers urged Republican U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune into a black sedan as protesters outside Watertown’s Elks Lodge yelled “do your job.” Before he left, though, Thune said he didn’t take issue with the people doing the yelling.
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2 months ago | 
siouxfallslive.com | Patrick Lalley |Jonathan Ellis
Julian Beaudion, a small-business owner and former state trooper from Sioux Falls, announced Thursday that he is seeking South Dakota’s Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Mike Rounds. “This campaign isn’t about me — it’s about securing a future where South Dakota’s working families don’t get left behind,” Beaudion said in a statement. He and his wife co-own Swamp Daddy’s Cajun Kitchen, and he also operates The Hub, a professional development program.
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2 months ago | 
newscenter1.tv | Trent Singer |John Hult |Patrick Lalley
A move to put more tobacco tax money toward South Dakota’s day-to-day government expenses might mean more mosquito bites — and a greater risk of West Nile virus — after July. Gov. Larry Rhoden signed Senate Bill 54 into law on Friday. It reduces the amount of yearly tobacco tax revenue used to help people quit and avoid smoking from $5 million to $2 million. The rest of the money raised annually by the tax — more than $40 million, typically — goes to the state’s general fund.
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2 months ago | 
newscenter1.tv | Patrick Lalley |Matt Zimmer
SIOUX FALLS — The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation is looking into a fight at the maximum security wing of the state prison in Sioux Falls that broke out less than 48 hours before a planned tour of the building by a 22-member prison work group. It’s unclear how many people were involved, how long the fighting took place before being brought under control, or how badly anyone was hurt.
