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In The Moment: Rounds Talks B1-B Flight Ops, And Avera Talks Biden's 70% Vaccination Goal

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In the Moment, May 10, 2021 Show 1045.

  • A task force found that 23 percent of South Dakota State Bar members had experienced sexual harassment on the job. We explore the report, the problem, and the call to action for sexual harassment training in South Dakota's legal profession.

 

  • The B1-B Lancers have resumed flight operations as of May 3. The fleet was grounded in April after an emergency at Ellsworth AFB. The aircraft have now been declared safe after an Air-Force-wide safety stand-down. We talk with U.S. Senator Mike Rounds. Rounds sits on the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and also serves on the Readiness subcommittee.

 

  • COVID Update:  We ask Dr. Jason Erickson with Avera about President Joe Biden's goal of vaccinating 70 percent of Americans before July 4th.

 

  • SD History has us remembering the tornado that went through Delmont South Dakota on Mother's Day morning of 2015. This storm displaced about half of the city's residents.

 

  • SDPB's Brian Gevik discusses the first episode of "Old Guitars and the Local Musicians Who Love Them. We begin with two 1941 acoustic guitars from the collection of the National Music Museum in Vermillion.

 

  • Paul Higbee writes in a recent article in South Dakota Magazine about the D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery in Spearfish. He gets into its history and how it's more of a park as playmates met there to peruse the grounds.

 You can listen LIVE (12CT/11MT): listen.sdpb.org