
Bart Pfankuch
Total 298 Posts
Rising anger and violence toward healthcare workers hampering patient care in SD
Increasing anger and even violence toward healthcare workers in South Dakota and across the U.S. is adding great stress on practitioners who are already enduring the pain and hardship of providing care during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
Healthcare workers in South Dakota have been called offensive names, faced threats
News Watch to host panel discussion March 3 on proposed Native-focused charter schools in S.D.
Use this link to register to listen live to the March 3 Native education panel
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South Dakota News Watch is convening a panel of experts for an
Veteran journalist Stu Whitney joins South Dakota News Watch as investigative reporter
South Dakota News Watch continues to strive for excellence with its latest addition to our award-winning investigative news team.
A 30-year veteran of newspaper journalism, Stu Whitney of Sioux Falls joins South Dakota News Watch as an investigative reporter starting Feb. 22, 2022. Whitney is a graduate of the journalism
Legislation seeks to clarify who decides what happens to the dead in South Dakota
South Dakota has some of the weakest laws in the nation when it comes to regulating who decides what should happen to the body of someone who dies, and the vague laws are causing greater expense for survivors, creating emotional trauma for grieving families and funeral directors, and occasionally leading
South Dakota tribal college part of NASA plan to build housing for use on the moon and Mars
Sinte Gleska University, a tribal college in Mission, S.D., may soon enter into a partnership with NASA that would result in new science education programs, more affordable housing for state reservations and the development of 3D housing that could someday be used on the moon or Mars.
The National
Improving education top goal of Native American agenda in 2022 South Dakota legislative session
One way to understand which issues are most important to the South Dakota Native American community — the state’s largest minority group — is to examine the bills that are filed each legislative session by the handful of Native lawmakers serving in statewide office.
This year, about three dozen bills were
Bills would allow South Dakota Native Americans to hunt, fish and visit state parks for free
Native Americans from South Dakota would be able to hunt or fish anywhere in the state for free and visit or camp in state parks without paying fees under two bills under consideration by the state Legislature.
House Bill 1141 would allow enrolled members of a federally recognized Indian tribe