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The VFW Post 2750 building on Main Street played host to a company of veterans and their families and loved ones on Monday.
The occasion: Recognizing local veterans for their service in the Vietnam War half a century ago.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - While President Joe Biden officially declared the end of the pandemic as a national emergency in April, all COVID restrictions have not come to an end. Until this week, that included the ability for families of South Dakota National Guard soldiers to be present for swearing-in ceremonies.
South Dakota’s lone House Representative is continuing his fight against adversarial foreign governments buying United State’s agricultural land.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - South Dakota state Sen. Helene Duhamel, R-Rapid City, said the men on Mount Rushmore are not perfect, but they were critical to U.S. history.
“Like it or not, imperfections or not, it is our history, and it’s worth preserving for generations to come,” Duhamel said.
Last week, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) led efforts to successfully turn back a plan to charge the Pierre, Aberdeen, and Watertown communities more than four million dollars over the next 10 years to maintain passenger air service, the Congressman said in a press release.
Less than a month after being introduced in the U.S. House, South Dakota Representative Dusty Johnson's legislation to protect the land around the Wounded Knee Massacre site has passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee with unanimous approval.
Rep. Dusty Johnson answered a wide array of questions that ranged from opportunities to get civically involved to the Wounded Knee when he spoke at South Dakota Girls State on the University of South Dakota campus Friday morning.
Johnson opened his talk in the Aalfs Auditorium by noting how great of a leadership opportunity Girls State is. “It’s one of the greatest programs to attend in South Dakota,” he said.
Dusty Johnson is your friendly neighborhood politician who wants to hear you out. Uniformed in square glasses and his trademark orange tie, Johnson can talk policy anywhere and any day, be it on China and TikTok, the looming debt ceiling deadline or ocean shipping reform.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the heavily publicized Vietnam War caused division and protest. Despite the controversy, men and women still risked their lives.
In Piedmont Friday, Johnson honored more than 20 veterans with a Vietnam War era pin.
An Aberdeen student has now received a visit from two members of U.S. Congress during his senior year.
Between his visits to Miller and Groton to speak with students, Representative Dusty Johnson stopped at Aberdeen Central High School on Wednesday to present a Congressional Bronze Medal to Dustin Hermansen.
For Rep. Johnson, this was his first time presenting a Congressional Medal.