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Special report: Pandemic threatens fragile rural health care system
Editor’s note: This article is the second of three parts of a special report by South Dakota News Watch. The “Small Towns, Big Challenges” series was supported in part by a grant from the COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program sponsored by Facebook. Part three will appear next
South Dakota News Watch live virtual town hall discussion on small towns
Small towns across South Dakota are at a crossroads, facing historic declines in population and economic activity but also seeking new ways to thrive and grow. The COVID-19 pandemic, while not significantly infecting rural populations, has indirectly affected both potential paths. While the pandemic has hurt the agricultural economy and
Special report: Small towns in SD facing big challenges amid pandemic and historic declines
Editor’s note: This article is the first of three parts of a special report by South Dakota News Watch. The “Small Towns — Big Challenges” series was supported in part by a grant from the COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program sponsored by Facebook. Parts two and three will
Beyond the checkpoints: How a SD Native American tribe protects its people from COVID-19
Editor’s note: This article was produced through a partnership between South Dakota News Watch and the Solutions Journalism Network, a national non-profit group that supports rigorous journalism about responses to problems.
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in north-central South Dakota has received extensive state and national press coverage in
SD colleges prepare for logistical and financial unknowns for next academic year
The COVID-19 pandemic has already changed the way colleges and universities are teaching students, forcing a move this spring and summer away from in-person classroom learning to remote education.
Moving forward, the virus and the unknowns surrounding it have the potential to fundamentally alter the short-term and long-range future of
‘Uncounted’ unemployed workers taking brunt of COVID-19 hardships in SD
Stacey Twiggs is one of the “uncounted” unemployed people in South Dakota.
Twiggs, 35, is a massage therapist from Black Hawk who has seen COVID-19 turn her life upside down. She hasn’t gotten sick, but the pandemic has destroyed her once-thriving business, forced her to live off credit cards
Regulatory gaps and missed opportunities allowed COVID-19 to spread freely in US meatpacking plants
The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed the U.S. meatpacking industry, but public health experts say the risks posed to workers and the U.S. food supply chain by airborne viral infections were readily apparent and could have been addressed years ago.
Ongoing virus outbreaks could have been avoided, and future