Author: DawnSherine Bernard
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A Moratorium On The Menu: Inside South Dakota’s Five Year Freeze On Lab Grown Meat
The Traditional Standard Walk into any grocery store in Rapid City today, and you are surrounded by food science. The ground beef in the cooler may legally contain ammonia-treated scraps once known as “pink slime,” and the cheap banquet steaks at the local buffet are likely held together by transglutaminase—a commercial “meat glue” fermented from…
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From the TSA to the Checkout Counter: The Fight for Tribal ID Equality
Imagine a tourist from Europe walks into a sporting goods store in Rapid City. They hand the clerk a foreign passport, fill out the federal paperwork, and wait for the background check to clear. Under current federal law, that foreign passport is a perfectly valid, primary form of identification to purchase a firearm. Now, imagine…
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Data Over Drama: The Cold Hard Math of the OneHeart Lease
If you happened to read the headlines this week , you’d think that the sky was falling over Kansas City Street. Following a unanimous City Council vote to issue a “Notice of Non-Renewal” for the OneHeart campus lease, the local rumor mill immediately went into overdrive. The narrative being sold is one of impending disaster—a…
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EXCLUSIVE: Governor Larry Rhoden and Safe Haven Baby Box founder Monica Kelsey in Rapid City
Governor Larry Rhoden and Monica Kelsey founder of the Safe Haven Baby Box ministry discuss the mechanics of the Safe Haven Baby Box during the ribbon cutting held at Fire Station 1 located at 10 Main Street in Rapid City South Dakota on Saturday February 28th 2026.
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A Box in the Wall – A Blind Spot in the Law
The Dilemma of The Safe Haven Baby Box in South Dakota The Safe Haven Baby Box model is built entirely on the premise of absolute unrecorded anonymity. However, the Indian Child Welfare Act explicitly requires jurisdictional notification to keep indigenous children within their communities. Due to the fact that the dropbox is designed to collect…