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Chamber Forum To Spotlight Fredericksburg Healthcare, Medical School Proposal
Potomac Local - Virginia
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August 26, 2025
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — The future of healthcare in the Fredericksburg region takes center stage Wednesday morning as two hospital leaders address growth, challenges, and innovation — including the possibility of Northern Virginia’s first medical...
This Sioux Falls cyclist rode 4,000 miles to support veterans
Argus Leader - South Dakota
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Gage Matzen rode his bike from coast to coast this past summer, but oddly one of his biggest takeaways? The baguettes in Mazama, Washington. With a two-month-long diet of instant oatmeal, honey banana wraps and protein bars, you got to take the...
Zach Top Says The Title Of His Forthcoming Album, ‘Ain’t In It For My Health,’ Has A Double Meaning For Him
Whiskey Riff
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August 27, 2025
We are in the final stretch before Zach Top gifts his sophomore record, Ain’t In It For My Health, to fans. At the end of the week on August 29th, the ’90s country revival sensation is keeping the momentum going with his sophomore record. The buzz...
Mitchell healthcare workers take their skills on the road
Mitchell Daily Republic - South Dakota
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August 27, 2025
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second story in a multiple-part series exploring the lives of traveling healthcare workers, a career trend that impacts Mitchell and South Dakota in many ways. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a growth of 9...
Brookings Health System Hospice Remembrance Ceremony Planned
Brookings Radio - South Dakota
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August 27, 2025
Brookings Health System will host their third annual Remembrance Ceremony on Sept. 11. To honor the memory of people who have died this past year, Brookings Health System Hospice will hold the third annual Remembrance Ceremony on Thursday, Sept....
Rep. Dusty Johnson calls for AI data centers in South Dakota
Aberdeen News - South Dakota
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Rep. Dusty Johnson advocates for data center development in South Dakota, emphasizing their importance in the U.S.-China AI race. Johnson links data center development to economic growth and job creation, criticizing opposition to such projects....
U.S. Health and Human Services agency orders states to strip gender from sex ed
Bethesda Magazine - Maryland
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August 27, 2025
President Donald Trump’s administration demanded Tuesday that dozens of states remove from sex education materials any references to a person’s gender departing from their sex assigned at birth, or lose federal funding. The U.S. Department of...
Health Department threatens to pull states' sex ed funding for including 'gender ideology' in programs
Spectrum News 13 - Florida
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August 26, 2025
The Trump administration has escalated its efforts to ban sex ed programs from teaching youth about being transgender, threatening to pull a total of more than $81 million in funding from 40 states and six territories unless they remove “all...
Letters: Response to 1972 flood offers commonsense approach
Morning Call - Pennsylvania
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August 28, 2025
South Dakota flood holds lessons for Texas The recent Guadalupe floods in Texas brought back horrible memories of the June 1972 Rapid City, South Dakota, flood, which took the lives of 238 people. I am incensed that news organizations did not...
South Dakota Obesity Rate Spike Is 10th Fastest in the Nation
Black Hills Pioneer - South Dakota
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Obesity remains a major public health challenge in the United States, affecting more than one-third of adults and contributing to a wide range of chronic conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. It is strongly associated...
Healthwatch- Managing GI conditions
KOTA Territory News - South Dakota
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August 26, 2025
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Navigating a serious GI issue can be overwhelming, but at Monument Health, compassionate care is here to guide you every step of the way. Rochelle Smith, a nurse practitioner with Monument Health Gastroenterology, has...
Analysis looks at Big Beautiful Bill’s impacts on health insurance in South Dakota and beyond
Black Hills FOX News - South Dakota
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August 26, 2025
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - A research group has projected future healthcare impacts in South Dakota by the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill. KFF’s analysis has found that an additional 12,000 people in South Dakota will likely be uninsured...
Don’t Watch This; Watch That, Week 1: Ode to a Dead Brewery (or Several)
Off Tackle Empire - Washington D.C.
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August 28, 2025
Reflections on drinking my way through the rural Midwest, I guess. There’s something about drinking a craft beer in what amounts to an abandoned—and repurposed—Perkins that makes you feel…well, “at home” isn’t right, but it’s something like that....
Richard ‘Dick’ Livermore, 56, Le Mars
Le Mars Daily Sentinel - Iowa
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Richard ‘Dick’ Livermore Richard “Dick” Livermore, 56, of Le Mars, died unexpectedly on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Aug. 29, at All Saints...
Sioux Falls business supports Alzheimer’s Association with special sale
Dakota News Now - South Dakota
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August 24, 2025
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - More than 16,000 people in South Dakota are living with Alzheimer’s. In an effort to help those living with the disease, 605 Running Company had a giveback day Sunday to support the Alzheimer’s Association. 10...
$200 Million Founders Crossing Project Breaks Ground in Sioux Falls
Mitchell Now - South Dakota
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August 25, 2025
Construction has begun on Founders Crossing, a $200 million mixed-use development in southeast Sioux Falls at 57th Street and Veterans Parkway. Anchored by Good Samaritan, the project will include senior living communities, a Sanford Health...
Former Downtown Sioux Falls president making bid for mayor's office
Sioux Falls Live - South Dakota
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August 25, 2025
The man who spent nearly a decade leading downtown Sioux Falls’ top advocacy organization has his sights set on City Hall. Joe Batcheller will seek the Sioux Falls mayor’s office in 2026. The 51-year-old father of two and urban planning guru is...
Rally Tax Revenue Doesn’t Cover Sturgis City Budget Expenses
Dakota Free Press
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August 28, 2025
Published 2025-08-28 by Cory Allen Heidelberger Governor Rhoden says the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is all about Freedom™, but the state’s enthusiasm for the Rally is predicated mostly on taxes: The South Dakota Department of Revenue estimates that...
Wildfire risk spurs bans
News Letter Journal - Wyoming
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Stage 1 fire restrictions took effect Aug. 22 across the Medicine Bow National Forest and Thunder Basin National Grassland as officials cite hot, dry conditions and heightened wildfire danger. Aaron Woodward, warning coordination meteorologist...
South Dakota Medical Marijuana Industry Cheers Sting Operations On Hemp Product Sellers
Marijuana Moment
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August 24, 2025
“Why do I go to a doctor and pay him, and why go pay the state to pay even more money, when I can go to the vape shop, or I can go to the hemp store and they’re selling exactly what I need?” By John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota’s...