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In The Moment: The Revision Of Social Studies Standards And The Political Fallout

The 81st Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is underway. South Dakota Highway Patrol Captain Jason Ketterling joins us with an update on DUIs, drug arrests, and collision statistics.

SDPB's Seth Tupper reports on the five-year anniversary of the renaming of South Dakota's highest mountain. Tupper spoke with Basil Brave Heart about the journey to Black Elk Peak. 

Political Junkies Tom Dempster & Jonathan Ellis discuss the state's top political news. We begin with a look at the state working group for social studies standards revision and political fallout from state Department of Education changes.

We take a moment to hear from another 2020 South Dakota Hall of Fame inductee. It's Maestro Delta David Gier of the Sioux Falls Symphony Orchestra in his own words.

Nearly 30 women will embark on the 17-month Women's Leadership Program by EmBe. There have been 250 graduates of the program which convenes next month.

Photographer Paul Horsted has chronicled the Black Hills through books like "The Black Hills: Yesterday and Today" and "Crossing the Plains with Custer." Horsted says that many things in the Black Hills National Forest have changed over the last 20 years. He adds that many things have stayed the same for well over a century.