South Dakota’s Higher-Education Alternative
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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^
| July 3, 2024 | Robert E. Wright
Only about 900,000 persons claim permanent residence in South Dakota, yet its 28 colleges and universities rank it third best in the nation for universities per capita, and its 50,000+ students make its higher-ed student-to-population ratio 5.76 percent, higher than North Carolina’s, Ohio’s, Pennsylvania’s, Texas’s, and Wisconsin’s, among other reputed higher-education meccas.
Small as it is, if South Dakota applies lessons from its own history to the current crises in higher education, it could become an even more important force. If you think that South Dakota is just a Great Plains version of Saudi Arabia, read a book (preferably my...
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Hazmat warning issued in North Dakota after train explosion leaks hazardous materials
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DAILY MAIL ^
| 5 July 2024 | WILL POTTER
Health officials issued an urgent warning after a train carrying toxic materials derailed and exploded into a fireball in North Dakota. Hazmat crews have been deployed to a remote area around 140 miles north of Fargo, after 29 cars of a CPKC train derailed at around 3:45 am on Friday. The hazardous
materials in the train included anhydrous ammonia, sulfur and methanol, which officials warned are being expelled from the wreckage in toxic smoke. Ammonia is the biggest risk, and if exposed to the compound, it can cause burning to the eyes, nose and throat, as well as blindness, lung...
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TROJAN HORSE: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum’s History of Selling Out to China, Kowtowing to Bill Gates, Supporting Transgenderism, Hating Trump is Revealed
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Big League Politics ^
| July 1, 2024 | Shane Trejo
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has emerged as a leading vice presidential candidate for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential run. Coming
seemingly out of nowhere, Burgum is now being aggressively astroturfed as the new sensation of the conservative media establishment, particularly by globalist-run Fox News. Burgum is saying all the right things as he sees a potential vice presidential nomination in his future. However, before Burgum became the darling of the conservative media gatekeepers, he was a typical globalist politician with deep ties to China and Bill Gates who vetoed bills to protect children from transgenderism and trashed Trump on the...
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Southeast SD flooding claims at least one life as focus shifts to Dakota Dunes
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southdakotasearchlight ^
| 06/23/2024 | : SETH TUPPER
Federal, state and local officials are focusing their efforts on a voluntary evacuation of Dakota Dunes and a levee construction project across Interstate 29 near McCook Lake as they continue responding to historic rainfall and flooding in southeast South Dakota that has claimed at least one life. Gov.
Kristi Noem led a press conference Sunday in North Sioux City. She shared news of the death but declined to provide any information about the person, circumstances or location, other than saying the death was related to flooding. “Because of respect for the family, I’m not going to share any details around...
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South Dakota pro-life organization sues to take pro-abortion amendment off November ballot
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Catholic Vote ^
| June 19, 2024 | Hannah Hiester
CV NEWS FEED // A South Dakota pro-life organization has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to take a proposed pro-abortion constitutional amendment off the state’s November ballot. CBS
News reported that Life Defense Fund’s lawsuit claims that the circulators of the proposed amendment, known as Amendment G, failed to properly follow election law requirements when gathering signatures on the petition. According to CBS News, Life Defense Fund claimed that the amendment’s sponsors, Dakotans for Health, didn’t file a required affidavit for petition circulators’ residency. The lawsuit also alleges that the petitioners misled people as to the nature of the...
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TODAY! Primaries in Maine, North Dakota, Nevada and South Carolina
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TOMORROW! Primaries in Maine, North Dakota, Nevada and South Carolina
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If you live in these states, GO VOTE!
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Young boys find T. rex fossil while hiking in North Dakota
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UPI ^
| Ben Hooper
June 10 (UPI) -- Three young boys out for a hike in North Dakota noticed something sticking out from the ground and were shocked to find out they had discovered a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil. Jessin
and Liam Fisher, ages 10 and 7, were out hiking onNorth Dakota Bureau of Land Management land in the badlands, near Marmarth, with their cousin, Kaiden Madsen, 9, and their dad, Sam Fisher, when the family spotted an unusual object sticking out of the ground. They contacted Tyler Lyson, Sam Fisher's high school classmate and now the Curator of Paleontology for the Denver Museum of...
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New landscape confronts South Dakota Republicans after political earthquake shakes incumbents (link only)
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South Dakota Searchlight | 6/6/24 | Joshua Haiar
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TODAY! Primaries in Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota
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These are the last of the presidential primaries. Iowa
is local. And local primaries will continue through mid-September. If you live in these states, GO VOTE!
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TOMORROW! Primaries in Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota
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This is the final round of presidential primaries. But
local primaries continue until mid-September.
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Former South Dakota mayor charged in triple-murder
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NBC News ^
| May 28, 2024 | Antonio Planas
A former mayor of a South Dakota town has been charged with murder after a triple-slaying Monday night in the community he once oversaw, according to the state’s attorney general. Jay
Ostrem, 64, was being held in the Minnehaha County Jail on $1 million cash bond on three counts of first-degree murder, Attorney General Marty Jackley said in a statement Tuesday. “There is no further threat to the public," Jackley said after he announced the arrest in the fatal shootings. The names of the victims have not been released because their relatives have not been notified, authorities said. Ostrem is...
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Family infected with parasitic worms in US after eating bear meat, CDC says-Six people who ate a meal in South Dakota in 2022 with black bear meat diagnosed with trichinellosis, a parasitic zoonotic disease
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Guardian ^
| 26 May 2024 | Maya Yang Sun
Six people who shared a meal involving black bear meat kebabs have been diagnosed with trichinellosis, a parasitic zoonotic disease. In
a new report released this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that in July 2022, a 29-year old hospitalized patient with suspected trichinellosis was reported to the Minnesota health department. His symptoms included fever, severe muscle aches, periorbital edema or eye swelling, and eosinophilia or the condition of elevated levels of eosinophils, a type of white blood cell. According to the report, a week prior to the symptoms appearing, the patient and eight other people...
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Kristi Noem banned from all South Dakota tribal nations
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Washington Examiner ^
| May 23, 2024 | Annabella Rosciglione
Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) has been banned from all nine of South Dakota’s tribal nations. On
Tuesday, the final tribe that had not yet banned her, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, voted in favor of banning Noem from its reservation. Flandreau President Tony Reider called an emergency meeting in response to some of the governor’s comments. “President Reider informed the governor that a ban from our territories is imminent and requested that the Governor refrain from making future blanket statements that offend the tribes within the boundaries of the State of South Dakota, some of which depend on state services...
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Proposed Abortion Amendments Qualify for Ballots in Colorado, South Dakota
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Breitbart ^
| 05/20/2024 | Katherine Hamilton
Officials in South Dakota and Colorado certified proposed amendments that would enshrine the right to abortion in their state constitutions. Republican
South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson released a statement on Thursday announcing that her office had approved the abortion measure after certifying that it had the required number of signatures to appear on the November ballot, NBC News reported.
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Is Doug Burgum the dark horse in the Trump VP race? After Kristi Noem killed her dog, Republicans consider the North Dakota billionaire and his wife's inspirational story of recovery
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Daily Mail ^
| May 4, 2024 | Charlie Spiering
When former President Donald Trump welcomes potential running mates to Mar-a-Lago this weekend a dark horse could emerge as a favorite. One-time
frontrunner, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, is all but out of contention following revelations she shot dead her 14-month-old dog Cricket. Other candidates - including U.S. Senators Marco Rubio, Tim Scott and J.D. Vance; and congresswoman Elise Stefanik - are also set to attend. But whispers are circulating about a lesser-known Republican who 18 months ago was little heard of outside his remote home state. He is a billionaire businessman surrounded by a loving family and has the...
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South Dakota Gov. Noem erroneously describes meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in new book
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AP ^
| May 3rd, 2024 | Stephen Groves
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem described in a new book having met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during her time in Congress. But her office said Friday that the story of the meeting was an error as further scrutiny was put on the Republican governor’s life story.
... In her soon-to-be-released book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward,” Noem describes instances where she has stood up to international leaders — anecdotes that would have bolstered her foreign policy experience — but those were called into...
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem kills transgender bill, instead orders restrictions
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AP ^
| Mar 29, 2021 | AP
PIERRE, S.D. -- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday killed a bill that would have banned transgender women and girls from female sports, then later issued weaker executive orders that include restrictions but which conservatives decried as political face-saving. Lawmakers
in more than 20 states have introduced similar bans this year, with Republican governors in three states -- Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi -- signing them into law. A federal court blocked a similar law in Idaho last year. Noem's partial veto of the bill riled GOP lawmakers and tarnished the Republican governor's status among social conservatives. Shortly after the...
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Partisan fatigue among factors in North Dakota lawmaker retirements
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Bismarck Tribune ^
| 4/21/24 | JEFF BEACH and MICHAEL ACHTERLING
As a veteran legislator, Sen. Curt Kreun, R-Grand Forks, said he could look past some of the partisan rhetoric that has crept into the North Dakota Legislature. He said he was chastised by Republican leaders in the 2023 session for co-sponsoring a bill with a Democrat, Sen. Tim Mathern of Fargo. “So
I get called on the carpet, big deal. I’ve been there longer than they have,” he said. Kreun is among 13 lawmakers who served in the 2023 session who did not file paperwork to seek reelection to the Legislature in 2024. That’s in addition to three lawmakers who...
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Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Imports Over 950,000 Foreign Nationals to U.S., Exceeding Population of South Dakota
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Breitbart ^
| 04/15/2024 | JOHN BINDER
President Joe Biden’s parole pipeline has released more than 950,000 foreign nationals into the United States since its inception in January 2023 — exceeding the entire population of South Dakota. Late last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released figures for March, showing Biden’s parole pipeline is continuing to release tens
of thousands of foreign nationals into the United States interior via the southern border and commercial flights. From January 2023 through March 2024, more than 950,000 foreign nationals have been released into American communities thanks to Biden’s parole pipeline. The pipeline brings foreign nationals to the U.S. through...
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