SDPB's Podcasts

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

A poet and rancher introduces listeners to a cow who holds a grudge. And a bookstore-owner-slash-poet digs into the politics of dog pork.

Jon Hunter and Michael Card, Ph.D., scrutinize Thune's performance as majority leader. They round up national headlines and stories about the South Dakota congressman.

Jackie Wilber talks about the educational benefits of moving your body.

He was once the all-time winningest boy's basketball coach in South Dakota. He spent 34 years coaching at Parker High School. Gayle Hoover joins Craig Mattick on this edition of In Play.

On this edition of History 605, Ben Jones speaks with Chrystal Mensch-Nelson, Director of the Mead Museum in Yankton, about their current exhibit of a rare Jefferson Peace Medal.

As the dust settles, state leaders begin asking new, broader questions about the whole saga. And despite everything that’s happened in Jason Ravnsborg’s life, his eyes are still set law and politics. The fight for his legal career leads him to the state Supreme Court, where he breaks years of silence on the case.

Many health care providers say South Dakota’s current abortion ban is unclear and creating a hostile environment to practice women’s health care. Lawmakers and the state seek to clarify the ban. The proposed constitutional amendment seeks to remedy the confusion while also allowing the state to restrict the procedure. Plus, two women who’ve spent decades on opposite sides of the abortion issue weigh in on the current political climate around abortion.

Guests on this episode of Dakota Dialogues are Professor John Carey of Dartmouth College and Brightline Watch, PhD Candidate Sam Harper at the University of Iowa, and Alexander Theodoridis of the UMASS Poll.

A torrent of water rushes out of the Black Hills toward Rapid City. A teenager finds his mother’s home surrounded by raging water, while a man living high above Rapid Creek watches helplessly as homes and lives are swept away below. A real-estate developer is trapped by high water in one of his condominiums, and a young man is thrown into the water when a house breaks apart. Meanwhile, a National Guard soldier struggles to save a family on a rooftop.