Tag: governor Larry Rhoden
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Razor Wire And Bassinets: Inside South Dakota’s New Women’s Prison
Rapid City SD – By 10:00 a.m. Friday, the July heat radiating off the fresh asphalt at 1020 N Creek Drive was already suffocating. It was the kind of sweltering Rapid City morning that makes standing in a suit feel like a punishment — a fact visibly written on the sweating faces of local legislators,…
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South Dakota Got Ahead of This. Here’s What it Means for Data Centers in Rapid City
Rapid City SD – Rapid City is about to get its first data center. The facility isn’t built yet. The land hasn’t closed. It hasn’t cleared city permits. But in February, Sequitor Edge — a Nebraska-based company founded in 2024 — announced plans to construct a 30,000-square-foot computing facility on a 10-acre site in the…
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South Dakota’s Parole Crisis Didn’t Start Monday
A Sioux Falls officer nearly died. The governor announced emergency reforms. But the system was broken long before this week — and the people who broke it aren’t the ones cleaning it up. On Monday afternoon in Sioux Falls, a police officer followed a woman into what turned out to be an ambush. A man…
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The Tracks to Innovation Run Deeper Than Imagined in Rapid City
If you stand on the sidewalk outside Red Wing Shoes on West Main and look south across the street, you’ll see the historic spine of Rapid City: a maze of old industrial brick, an active freight line, and a whole lot of untouchable dirt. It’s a neighborhood where 19th-century railroad laws still dictate 21st-century reality.…