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Duke Senior Liyu Woldemichael, Duke Office of Durham and Community Affairs Deputy Chief Administrator Sam Miglarese, and Duke Law Student Amanda Joos are Duke’s winners of the 2022 Algernon Sydney
Last year at this time, SDPB's Kevin Woster was writing about the defeat of Hillary Clinton and how then President Trump's failure to admit defeat was impacting American democracy. In 2022, Woster is contemplating the changing nature of the Republican party, in the nation and in South Dakota. You can find his work online at SDPB.org/woster.
A newspaper editor I worked for years back liked to say about himself, other editors and other people in positions of authority: “You either made it happen or you let it happen.”Either way, it’s on you.
Oklahoma’s public school enrollment has seen its first downturn in 19 years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the biggest hits have been to pre-K and kindergarten. According to the annual Oct. 1 student count, overall enrollment was down 9,537 students, or 1.36%, to 694,113 students. Just a year earlier, the state’s student count of 703,650 was noted by officials at the Oklahoma State Department of Education for being the first-ever instance of public school enrollment exceeding 700,000. According to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, Oklahoma public school enrollm...