Springfield's PTSD; crime, punishment, prison services & the joy of being AG; Trump lawfare; & making memories with Jamie Smith

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An Aberdeen-area politician in office for less than a year doesn’t plan to return to the state Capitol.

SPRINGFIELD – “Don’t let them poach it,” a passerby told Bob Dooley Tuesday, as the former Mike Durfee State Prison warden stepped outside the Springfield Community Center for a smoke.

The head of South Dakota Trade vowed to a Senate committee Tuesday to explore new international trade opportunities for U.S. farmers and ranchers as one way to shrink the country’s agriculture trade deficit.

There’s an opening in the South Dakota Senate.

SPRINGFIELD — South Dakota’s state penitentiary has to go.

More than half of the proposed sites for a new South Dakota prison to be reviewed this week by Gov. Larry Rhoden’s Project Prison Reset Task Force are located in the Sioux Falls area.

A deluge of potential successors could be waiting to take the reins of Sioux Falls City Hall in 2026.