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ELECTION NIGHT SPECIAL - FINAL PREDICTIONS
BONUS PRE-ELECTION POD! | A shift in the polling, the perils of endorsing candidates, who should call South Dakota elections?
SPECIAL EDITION | Redneck doppelgangers, getting lost on a mountain in Maine & how moving to S.D. helped shape a Hollywood movie director
A look beyond South Dakota's borders, big trucks downtown, Thune's leadership position & an embarrassing napkin story
More EV talk, South Dakota’s ‘company town’, a Democratic perspective on H-IM28 & Election Day voting consensus
Political party swapping, Big Pharma's poke, remembering a South Dakota statesman & the importance of properly fitted suits
Another scandal story, shooting at a gun range, parade permitting's racist history, presidential predictions & the daycare spending feud of 2022
Pool showdown, cost of a convention center, benefits of blue-collar trades, daycare dilemmas, IM 28 tradeoffs
Ballot measure roundup, naked financial interest, the Ravnsborg news drip & the media-run state
Tunnel turmoil, Jackley v. NCAA, more auditor drama, fine basement dining & a better podcast host
Don't call it a raffle, mustering on the Riverline, The Scout's missing papers, green money & dirty jobs
Cattle vaccine slowdown, displaced muskrats, naming the unnamed & a late night chat with a rock star
The godfather of South Dakota's pipeline fight, battle origins, pooh-poohing a prison proposition & compelled prayers for the Mercato block
More scandal in South Dakota government, parking passions, DOJ in Indian Country & Uber's new competition
A triggered reporter, Minnesota-South Dakota beef, a homeless crusade & the food tax dilemma
SCOUTING TOWN HALL: Sturgis escapades, Three Toes' body count, a house of horrors, the emergence of a challenger & GOAC's big chance
The (non) limits of 'consumables,' why the Bill of Rights holds up, clubhouse bloat & where that embezzled money went
The RNC afterglow, gun-toting grandma, tallow tussle, how to invest in golf & birthday beer
Well-performing arsenic, undermining the food tax repeal, stalled sculptures & honoring the fallible
Raining on a parade, credit card secrecy, destroying records, Biden trees & the misery of independence
No National Guard, about that pipeline referendum, Lincoln County's triple whammy & Ellis' winning bet
Closed caucus, party problems, fractured into factions & Dem leaders on Open Primaries
Hemp's Hail Mary, a case of haves & have nots, ballot quest, fish bite & rallying the reservations
Handing off the abortion fight, Tuesday's landslide, new friends for Open Primaries, a Standing Rock music teacher & the virtue of printed records
Detecting earthquakes & mistakes, the most happening place in Sioux Falls, another run at intra-party faction labels & Sneve's Bad News Bears
The sequestration hole, hand-counting ballots, co-campaigning & partisan partying
More book fallout, hand counting ballots, navigating conflicts & under-worked councilors
Check days or Czech Days? A newsroom knighting, the pipeline referendum & story time with Frank
Gov. Noem's bad week, lots of little fires, a news coverage question, the abortion judge & a $77M vote
Three men & abortion, fighting the food tax, the missionary work of Frank Kloucek & equity v. equality
Pool bonding doubts, the Stehly effect, income tax warnings, lifting the parade candy ban, more Medicaid
A generational void, remembering My Man Mike, running toward a runoff & a South Dakota war hero
Exciting and sad zoo news, the mystery behind the mansion, Sturgis vote & Noem's beef with tribes
Vaccine card fraud, prison riots, the turn of a 'never-Trumper' & racing in Sturgis
Kumbaya on the cannabis front, battle of the Johnsons, a dull Veto Day & emotional history
Sioux Falls' parade candy ban, Noem's dental endorsement, secretive governments & more pipeline drama
About that zombie campaign video, not quite signing off, ending Minnesota reciprocity & unfinished business
The newspaper bill, Noem's sit-down with The Dakota Scout, putting superintendents on notice & what to do about kids watching porn
Sioux Falls Council races set, a perpetual mayoral campaign, the Merci train & Brad Jankord's run for South Dakota Legislature
Undercutting debate and petition drives, finding common ground on cannabis & insights into the world of RV'ers and non-resident voters
Pierre's fun lobby, setting the record straight, tinfoil hats, political theater & the Frye-Mueller-Schoenbeck island
Property tax pressures, butchering names, arsonists & firemen, and the importance of civic engagement
Baltic beef, Black Hills voices, racquetball superstars, marijuana clinics, voting records & a call from Texas
The farming historian, a Freedom Caucus chat, defanging delegates & carbon sequestration science
Timing winter closures, lawmaking at a breakneck pace, navigating sensitive topics & the difference between gender and sex
Betting on social security, newspaper comrades, speaking Klingon & Nurse Noem
What drove clicks in 2023, a cartoonist's proposition & a county auditor's pay raise
Jamie Smith's return to politics, a bridge over troubled waters, election integrity & Legislative seats remaining vacant
A creator of government (Joe Kirby), Walmart hazards + a visit with Murdoc and Jake Schoenbeck
Ian Fury & Pat Starr join the program + a story about crossing paths with a teenaged Joe Sneve
Sioux Falls Business’ Jodi Schwan brings Jon & Joe business news & the trio talk about why there's no such thing as a free lunch
Moving the dungeon, government secrets, when the growth stops & German Shepherd love
'Speaking of plumbers..,' conflict quagmires, The Dakota Scout zebra & the art of skipping school
The pro-life dilemma, education in India, four generations of lawmaking, Medicaid work requirements & how the OSHA story came to be
Navigating potential conflicts, selling beer to foreigners, radio silence & a Thune's hidden talent
The Fort Pierre frat house, public school products, a prison problem & an entrepreneurial nurse
The public school dilemma, newsroom microaggressions, crow murders & the return of Dan Ahlers
A prison disruption, South Dakota's lonely stand, dysfunctional politics, a GOP supermajority & the pipeline that never was
The homeschool swing, free speech, college drag & taxes
The fly with no name, a mayoral kitchen cabinet, electric vehicles & Republicans for Ukraine
A government Taj Mahal, Indian Country, education woes & the best license plate denials
Noem's shade, pipeline pitfalls, Corn Belt baseball & a paper route bet
Stepping in taxidermy, the Trump tribe, AI's place in journalism & what do about South Dakota counties
Sneve in the wild, locking up grandma, getting hooked on phonics & hunting for homesteads
Recapping the pipeline debate, overshooting the target & a look ahead at legislative primaries
The '24 election season is here, a legislative bromance, putting lipstick on a pig & a 30-year payback plan
Where's the line on lawmaker payments & are legislative conflicts unavoidable with a citizen legislature? + A photo with el presidente
Confederate flags & No. 45, 'the great disrupter,' Democratic Party turmoil & a surprise interruption from Ian Fury
A year of freedom, lawmakers warned & is Sioux Falls ready for a mayor’s mansion?
South Dakota's appeal to Trump, who's running for Sioux Falls mayor & a look back at the 2020 riots
The over-under on Ravnsborg PAC, a motorcycle mecca & Noem's thoughts on Ian Fury as chief of staff
Noem's fireworks fight, hanging with Kamala Harris & the odds a special session happens
Humanizing the border, Noem enters the pipeline fight & RIP Partridge Amendment
Ditching diversity centers, misremembering a major milestone & what a rabbit pandemic means for South Dakota
Water wars, the sanctity of the Secretary of State's Office & a chat with The Dakota Scout's new Pierre correspondent
Legofying the South Dakota Capitol, a Medicaid expansion hiccup & the ongoing medical marijuana card debate
Term limit impacts, presidential politics & the bête noire of the left
Deconstructing Noem's college critique & what it'll take to bring South Dakota's minority party back from the brink
COVID's end, pipeline pandemonium & a healthy youth sports balance
A goat named Scout, Sioux Falls' booze crusade, carbon alternatives & country club sex parties
The Madison Mafia, Dusty's debt limit & the pipeline showdown
An economy lesson from the professor, marital acrimony in Sioux Falls & South Dakota's housing debacle
Buying 'swampland,' hand-crank car windows & inflation exacerbation
A 45-year transparency crusade, secretive g-men & a busy week of quirky legal news
SCOUTING TOWN HALL: Bud Light outrage, an embattled mayor & the politics of South Dakota's newest residents
605 Cannabis v. DOH, mansion mayhem & Sneve's shameful lack of South Dakota history
Is Costner snubbing South Dakota for Arkansas? + Latchkey kids, mansion predictions & T. Denny's AOL account
Cornhole v. bean bags, Noem-Schoenbeck beef & why prosecutor likes 'truth in sentencing'
Pierre in the rearview mirror, tax cut negotiations, candid thoughts on Gov. Kristi Noem
Is it a cut or a rebate? + Abortion, grass and 'knuckleheads'
Remembering South Dakota's brawler, mansion suspense & late-session dust ups still ahead
Deutsch hate, budget battles & pothole city
Protests, crime trends and winter's misery
China balloon, uppity Minnesotans & Capitol zingers
Frye-Mueller fallout, Ellis FOMO & 'abortion politics'
Learning on the job, a $22M 'disunity' bridge & an early smoke out
Labeling GOP factions, Sioux Falls' mansion dilemma & podcasting from the Capitol
What is the Freedom Caucus, working with Chairman Mao & more GOP infighting
A call from Kristi, commutation questions & why we can't live in New Orleans
Evolving on China, the neurotic naming of winter storms & food tax vs. sales tax cuts