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"We have great schools [and] a great community. We just need more affordable places to live," said Avera's Hilary Rockwell. "Otherwise we're just taking other businesses’ [workforces]."
Want a peek at some of what might be debated at the South Dakota Capitol a few years from now? Look at what wasn't -- that's right, wasn't -- recommended last week by the Legislature's Study Committee on County Funding and Services.
A panel of state lawmakers has wrapped up work on ideas that could help ease financial strain on South Dakota counties.
PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Kristi Noem’s funding source for a troop deployment to the U.S.-Mexico border is the state’s Emergency and Disaster Fund, a revelation that caused a top-ranking legislator to criticize the plan and question its legality. Noem announced the impending troop deployment Thursday in a news release, saying she plans to send at […]
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A Searchlight review of budget documents, public testimony, legislation, and state laws pertaining to the fund revealed a common thread: references to the fund being intended for expenses within the state’s borders.