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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has received a call notifying the senator that he’s NOT Trump’s choice for running mate
 
07/15/2024 11:16:07 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 90 replies
X ^ | 7.15.24
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has received a call notifying the senator that he’s NOT Trump’s choice for running mate
 

South Dakota judge delays ruling on lawsuit against pro-abortion ballot measure
 
07/12/2024 11:52:13 AM PDT · by Morgana
Live Action News ^ | July 12, 2024 | Bridget Sielicki
A federal judge has decided not to rule on a South Dakota lawsuit challenging a pro-abortion ballot measure initiative — for now. The ballot measure would enshrine the “right” to abortion in the state’s constitution, and Judge Karen Schreier said she wants to hear from a state court before she rules. In June, the pro-life organization Life Defense Fund filed a federal lawsuit against the ballot measure, alleging that the group behind the measure, Dakotans for Health, broke election laws in its process of gathering petition signatures, and misled people as to what they were signing. In her Friday ruling,...
 

South Dakota Gov. Noem's official social media accounts seem to disappear without explanation
 
07/08/2024 7:26:00 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 82 replies
ABC AP ^ | 07 08 2024 | Staff
Longstanding official social media accounts belonging to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem appear to have been deleted without explanation. The accounts on Facebook, Instagram and X, the site formerly known as Twitter, had reached hundreds of thousands of followers. As of Monday, links to them on the governor's official website led to pages that said the accounts were no longer active. A fourth link from the governor's website to her official YouTube page remained active, as did Noem's personal accounts on Facebook, Instagram and X. A new X account for the governor's office was created this month and had just...
 

South Dakota’s Higher-Education Alternative
 
07/06/2024 5:00:51 AM PDT · by karpov · 11 replies
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...
 

Hazmat warning issued in North Dakota after train explosion leaks hazardous materials
 
07/05/2024 4:19:47 PM PDT · by george76 · 14 replies
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...
 

TROJAN HORSE: North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum’s History of Selling Out to China, Kowtowing to Bill Gates, Supporting Transgenderism, Hating Trump is Revealed
 
07/02/2024 5:39:57 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 64 replies
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...
 

Southeast SD flooding claims at least one life as focus shifts to Dakota Dunes
 
06/25/2024 7:46:32 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 4 replies
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...
 

South Dakota pro-life organization sues to take pro-abortion amendment off November ballot
 
06/19/2024 1:11:02 PM PDT · by Morgana · 2 replies
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...
 

TODAY! Primaries in Maine, North Dakota, Nevada and South Carolina
 
06/11/2024 5:04:39 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 5 replies
 

TOMORROW! Primaries in Maine, North Dakota, Nevada and South Carolina
 
06/10/2024 4:01:15 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 12 replies

If you live in these states, GO VOTE!
 

Young boys find T. rex fossil while hiking in North Dakota
 
06/10/2024 12:56:06 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
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...
 

New landscape confronts South Dakota Republicans after political earthquake shakes incumbents (link only)
 
06/07/2024 2:50:10 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 5 replies
South Dakota Searchlight | 6/6/24 | Joshua Haiar
 

TODAY! Primaries in Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota
 
06/04/2024 5:45:19 AM PDT · by cotton1706 · 5 replies

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!
 

TOMORROW! Primaries in Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota
 
06/03/2024 3:42:37 PM PDT · by cotton1706 · 4 replies

This is the final round of presidential primaries. But local primaries continue until mid-September.
 

Former South Dakota mayor charged in triple-murder
 
05/29/2024 10:43:15 PM PDT · by Coronal · 12 replies
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...
 

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
 
05/28/2024 7:04:41 AM PDT · by SJackson · 38 replies
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...
 

Kristi Noem banned from all South Dakota tribal nations
 
05/24/2024 7:08:35 PM PDT · by mbrfl · 49 replies
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...
 

Proposed Abortion Amendments Qualify for Ballots in Colorado, South Dakota
 
05/20/2024 5:52:19 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 13 replies
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.
 

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
 
05/04/2024 6:39:02 PM PDT · by chickenlips · 70 replies
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...
 

South Dakota Gov. Noem erroneously describes meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in new book
 
05/03/2024 1:29:42 PM PDT · by Stravinsky · 49 replies
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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