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Downtown Sioux Falls Over 50 Years
Editorial, Local Steven Schmidt Editorial, Local Steven Schmidt

Downtown Sioux Falls Over 50 Years

It’s fifty degrees a few days before Christmas, which feels wrong in a way that’s becoming familiar.

The Falls don’t react.
They never have.

The water sounds the same. The rhythm hasn’t changed. But the air still tells you where you are—especially when the wind shifts and Smithfield Meats announces itself. Pungent. Metallic. Unavoidable. A reminder that Sioux Falls was built on work that didn’t need to be pretty to matter.

In 1985, that smell wasn’t a problem. It was a coordinate.

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Your kids are not safe online.
Technology Steven Schmidt Technology Steven Schmidt

Your kids are not safe online.

I walked into the warehouse for the IT Outlet in Brandon, SD, and it had more tech firepower than 10 Best Buy Stores and more security than a federal facility.

What their CEO and Owner, Kevin Huber, told me about what's happening to your kids online will leave you speechless.

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