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The remaining $127 million dollars in American Rescue Plan funds are going to be released to South Dakota. Mary Staddick Smith is the Deputy Secretary of the South Dakota Department of Education, she discusses how the state will use the money. Faith Bottum is a graduate of South Dakota Mines and has been selected as the 2021 Rago Fellow for excellence in journalism. This grants her a 9-month internship with the Wall Street Journal. Physicist Hugh Lippincott is one of a cadre of scientists coaxing the universe to reveal its most essential secrets. We explore dark matter, particle physics, an...
Rise of the 10X Class The "robber barons" of the 21st Century are the people who used to sit next to you at the office. The Split Everyone is worried about the concentration of economic power in the hands of a small number of people. This discussion is usually focused on tech billionaires and the companies they created — Amazon, Google, Facebook, and to a lesser extent, Apple, Twitter, and even Tesla. But a less conspicuous class is about to amass vast economic power. That class is composed of working people who do not own companies or employ anyone else. Before we get to them, let us cons...
A new amusement park could be coming to Wisconsin Dells but it will need further approval from the city and state before construction can start. The Wisconsin Dells Plan Commission approved a conditional use permit and site plan for Lower Dells Adventures, LLC to construct the first phase of an outdoor amusement park at its meeting Monday. Lower Dells Adventure LLC Owner Adam Makowski presents his plans to construct The Land of Natura amusement park on over 70 acres of property near the lower Wisconsin River in Wisconsin Dells. The plan commission approved a conditional use permit and site pl...