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Nikki Gronli speaks in downtown Sioux Falls on Sept. 10, 2025, during the formal launch of her campaign for South Dakota’s lone U.S. House seat. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
By Joshua Haiar
South Dakota Democratic U.S. House nominee Nikki Gronli announced her top economic priorities Wednesday, including a return to tariff policies predating President Donald Trump, capping insulin costs, giving Medicare more drug-price bargaining power, and requiring higher-income people to contribute more toward Social Security.
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An image from the PowerOn Midwest website illustrates the dimensions of structures that would support a proposed 765-kilovot transmission line. (Photo by South Dakota Searchlight)
By Brad Johnson
Eastern South Dakota could soon host the largest transmission project in the state’s history. South Dakota’s first 765-kilovolt line would run through Grant, Deuel and Brookings counties.
The larger story is what could follow it.
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A voter takes an “I Voted” sticker at the Brackett Recreation Center in Minneapolis on Nov. 2, 2021. (Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer)
By Jacob Fischler
A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for unlawfully voting in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, highlighting the administration’s effort to keep election security a top issue, in line with President Donald Trump’s longstanding unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.
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