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WASHINGTON, D.C. – More federal legislation continues to be introduced all in the interest of understanding livestock market concentration and its affects on U.S. producers. The latest in a long list of legislation that seldom makes it to an actual vote, U.S. Representatives Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa) and Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) ahve introduced the Livestock Consolidation […]
RAPID CITY, S.D.  – A man charged with alternative counts of first and second-degree murder was in court Monday, September 11, for a motions hearing. Duane Sierra is accused of shooting and killing Serena Spider on May 3. In court Monday, the defense asked for Spider’s probation records. Defense said the records would show who […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ever since then U.S. House of Representative Kristi Noem attempted to use a family anecdote to shore up the position that the so-called ‘death tax,’ needed repealing – an anecdote later discovered to have been grossly misrepresented by her – there has not been much made of flouting the federal inheritance tax […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Dakota’s Republican congressional delegation and GOP Gov. Kristi Noem supported funding measures signed by President Donald Trump that provided more than $10 billion in federal funding to the state to battle and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. But they’re not so willing to praise a program approved by Democratic President Joe […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe to supplement tribal recovery efforts in the areas affected by the severe winter storms last December. According to a press release, federal funding is available to the tribe and certain private nonprofit […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg joined other Republican state attorneys general in a lawsuit to stop the Biden administration’s requirement that millions of U.S. health workers get vaccinated against the coronavirus, saying it would worsen staff shortages. The lawsuit states that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate, […]