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The No Kings demonstration in Sioux Falls on Oct. 17, 2026, was at Drake Springs Park near downtown. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
By Meghan O’Brien
Nearly 32,000 South Dakotans have already voted in advance of the Nov. 3 general election, and supporters of the No Kings movement want to push that number higher.
The fourth round of nationwide day-long No Kings demonstrations was Saturday.
COMMENTARY
A pheasant stands along a South Dakota fence line in 2023. (Unmodified photo courtesy of USDA-NRCS South Dakota)
By Brad Johnson
South Dakota has spent decades convincing out-of-staters to come here and hunt pheasants.
Tourism campaigns market pheasant hunting as a bucket-list experience, especially during the opening of the season, which is this weekend. Later this month, elected officials, business leaders and invited guests will gather for the Governor’s Pheasant Hunt, an event devoted as much to economic development as hunting.
Yet amid that success story sits an uncomfortable fact. Fewer South Dakotans are participating in it.
FROM STATES NEWSROOM
Work continues on the new QTS data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah, on April 17, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)
By Tim Henderson
The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures.
Until now, no industry had driven the U.S. economy with such force since the railroad expansion of the late 1800s, when titans battled one another to lay the transcontinental tracks that would connect America from coast to coast.
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