SDPB Podcasts

Each day, SDPB brings you statewide news coverage. We then compile those stories into a daily podcast.

SDPB's Jackson Dircks checks in on Zandbroz Variety in Sioux Falls. We learn how tariffs are impacting them, as well as a Rapid City-based independent toy store.

Lee Strubinger, SDPB’s Politics & Public Policy Reporter, chronicles the story of former South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. Follow the story from after Ravnsborg struck and killed pedestrian Joe Boever in September 2020 to his impeachment and removal from office in 2022.

He never won a state wrestling title in South Dakota but later became a national wrestling champ and wound up being an Olympic bronze medalist in the '88 Seoul Olympics and a silver medalist in the '92 Barcelona Olympics. Dennis Koslowski joins Craig Mattick on this edition of In Play.

Cara Rogers Stevens joins us to discuss her recent book about Thomas Jefferson and his work to eliminate slavery. We see how 14-year-old Thomas Jefferson dealt with inheriting other human beings, came to see slavery as a moral wrong, and then was confronted with what he would do about it?