Archive - The Dakota Scout

Retired soccer star in South Dakota in bid to help youth athletes

Former Seattle Sounders first rounder Steve Zakuani promoting app that helps build mental resilience

45 mins ago • Jonathan Ellis

The Dakota Scout E-edition | Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2026

Volume 2 | Number 75

3 hrs ago

LETTER | Citizens should decide if tax increases for South Dakota schools are necessary

South Dakotans are sick of their property taxes being ratcheted up year after year.

16 hrs ago

VIEWPOINT | South Dakota doesn’t have to be a drunk driving loser

Guest column by Dan Nelson, Brookings County State's Attorney

17 hrs ago

SCOUTING REPORT | USS Pierre gift box, USD's nurse anesthesia grads, evolving fentanyl, Sioux Falls school buildings

A weekly digest of interesting local, state, national and even international developments

21 hrs ago • Jonathan Ellis

Janklow rail prophecy materializing in South Dakota decades later

Bidders answer state's call to return last public rail to private sector

21 hrs ago • Joe Sneve

CARTOON | State (Theatre) centenarian

As seen in the Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2026, edition of The Dakota Scout

22 hrs ago • Ryan M Stoick

LETTER | ICE actions in Minneapolis go too far

The recent shooting deaths of two people in Minneapolis have been met with an unsettling silence from many in positions of leadership.

Feb 1

January 2026

VIEWPOINT | Time to relocate our state Capitol out of Pierre

Guest column by Joe Kirby

Jan 31

South Dakota High Court deals Kevin Costner another defeat in Black Hills statue dispute

Actor had planned to use artist's bronze statues at Deadwood casino that was never built

Jan 31 • Jonathan Ellis

A very bad day | Nosey neighbors | Rescued by a former legislator | Data center defeat | The GOP's consigliere | Nibbling on property taxes…

Sponsored by Juna Sleep Systems & Beal Distributing | Mayoral candidate & state Rep. Greg Jamison stops by the Scouting Lounge to talk about the…

Jan 31 • The Dakota Scout, Jonathan Ellis, and Joe Sneve

44:35

Sioux Falls data center vote denied

Petition drive fails to gather enough signatures to push Gemini Capital's rezone to referendum election

Jan 30 • The Dakota Scout

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