Chris Laughery

In The Moment ... January 3 2017 Show 002 Hour 2

Guests: US Senator Mike Rounds; SDPB's Lee Strubinger talks with South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs; South Dakota Chaplain Melissa Hiatt; John Pelletier, director of the Champlain College Center for Financial Literacy

In The Moment ... January 2, 2017 Show 001 Hour 2

Guests: US Sen. John Thune; Dr. Steve Herrmann, Director of Operations for Sanford Profile; SDPB's Jim Kent on the prescribed burn of Rockerville SD; Images of the Past: Personalities with Chuck Anderson

In The Moment ... January 2, 2017 Show 001 Hour 1

Guests: US Sen. John Thune; Freshman SD Lawmakers from Dist. 8 Jordan Youngberg; SDPB's Victoria Wicks "Happy Noon Year"; Lifestyle strategist Elizabeth Hagen; John Pelletier Director of Champlain College Center for Financial Literacy 

You can purchase items from all over the world at big box stores and we all know there are several of those to choose from. There's a market in Sioux Falls that gives you an opportunity to buy goods from very local people. We recently caught up with the editor of an event that you may not want want to miss

Kent Osborne and the Computer Guys discussed many topics including:

Android Security

Automatic braking in all vehicles

South By Southwest Conference in Austin Texas

A series of events Wednesday morning led the Sioux Falls Area Drug Task Force and the Sioux Falls Police Department to seize about 9 pounds of methamphetamine and over $94,000 cash. A woman rented a hotel room in southwest Sioux Falls and upon checkout, forgot a large amount of cash under the mattress. Employees were suspicious of her story to re-enter the room and called police. Chief Doug Barthel says the amount of drugs seized equals about a half of a million dollars on the street.

Live interview with Night Ranger members including lead singer and bassist Jack Blades.  They discuss their involvement with the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy among other projects.

Chuck Brennan, founder of the Brennan Rock & Roll Academy (and CEO of the Dollar Loan Center Empire).  Today marks the first day of a week-long grand opening celebration at the new Brennan Rock & Roll Academy in Sioux Falls.  It was established to help children uncover and develop their love, passion and talents through the power of music.  Through positive education and encouragement from kind and gifted musicians the students learn music, performance and industry skills while learning to dream bigger and believe in themselves more by gaining self-confidence through something they

The Cornerstone Rescue Mission in Rapid City is a large facility that includes transition houses, apartments, veterans care, women and children’s home, plus an emergency shelter and newly renovated kitchen serving hundreds of meals a day. Lately, though, Cornerstone has been criticized for what some say are some harsh policies at the shelter.

The winter storm that is being tracked is said to be in Southern South Dakota by daybreak. The heaviest amounts of snow are said to be in Northern Kansas and a large portion of Nebraska. South Dakota Public Broadcasting's Chris Laughery caught up with Brad Adams, a hydro-meteorological technician with the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls. He begins today’s Dakota Digest by telling us where this storm originated.

The South Dakota Department of Health has reported the first influenza death of the season. The person was elderly and from Pennington County. The individual had Influenza B and was hospitalized. Lon Kightlinger is the state epidemiologist and says we have an early flu season this year and it is very important to get vaccinated. Kightlinger adds that there are other things that can be done to stop the spread of the flu virus.

Cases of sexually transmitted diseases are increasing at what officials are calling an alarming rate. Chlamydia infections in South Dakota have doubled since the late 1990’s, and gonorrhea is twice as common now as it was five years ago. State Epidemiologist Lon Kightlinger says that there are a few main factors that may be causing this increase.
 

This special edition of Dakota Midday is dedicated to the late Senator George McGovern. Three guests join the show today to discuss the life, leadership and legacy of McGovern. We first hear from grandson Matt McGovern who's first experience in South Dakota politics was traveling the state as a child during his grandfather's 1980 Senate campaign. Donald Simmons joins the conversation - he's the Executive Director of the George and Eleanor McGovern Center for Leadership and Public Service at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell. McGovern graduated from Dakota Wesleyan after World War II.