In The Moment … January 29th, 2021 Show 981 Hour 1 Heather Dawn Thompson , member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, has been named the new Director of the Office of Tribal Relations , now reporting directly to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. Guest: Heather Dawn Thompson Watch on YouTube. Find the In the Moment Podcast on Apple , Spotify , and Google Play . Plus, watch interviews from our show on YouTube .

In The Moment ... January 29, 2021 Hour 1 Today's episode of Poetry from Studio 47 features the work of Athena Kildegaard. Arts, literature, and music reporting on SDPB is supported by the Northern State University School of Fine Arts. More information available at northern.edu Find the In the Moment Podcast on Apple , Spotify , and Google Play . Plus, watch interviews from our show on YouTube .

In The Moment … January 28th, 2021 Show 980 Hour 2 How can we heal from political strife and turmoil while still doing the important work on the critical issues of today? Perhaps some of those answers might come from outside the interior world of politics itself. Guest: Neil Fulton is Dean of the School of Law at the University of South Dakota. Find Neil's article we reference here. Find the In the Moment Podcast on Apple , Spotify , and Google Play . Plus, watch interviews from our show on

In The Moment … January 28th, 2021 Show 980 Hour 2 On Call with the Prairie Doc® airs on South Dakota Public Television (SDPB) and the Prairie Doc® Facebook page each week at 7:00 p.m. CT. Health reporting on SDPB is supported by Monument Health Find the In the Moment Podcast on Apple , Spotify , and Google Play . Plus, watch interviews from our show on YouTube .

In The Moment … January 28th, 2021 Show 980 Hour 1 The Legislature and state agencies are involved in a lot of tedious work some of which regulates licensing and other procedures for a variety of professions in South Dakota. The House Commerce and Energy committee held a hearing on HB 1014, a bill to revise agency procedures. It demonstrates some of the technical work during session as well as the value of communications and compromise. In Their Own Words brings you closer to the debates and

In The Moment … January 28th, 2021 Show 980 Hour 1 On Friday, Senator Mike Rounds voted to confirm General Austin Lloyd as the next Secretary of Defense. Does that mean anything different as to how cybersecurity is approached in the U.S.? We're going to visit about big tech companies and anti-trust implications. And, this is our first visit with Senator Rounds since the riots at the U.S. Capital Building on January 6th. What have we learned from that? Guest: Senator Mike Rounds Find the In the

In The Moment … January 27th, 2021 Show 979 Hour 2 South Dakota is one of the nation's leaders in distribution and administration of the approved COVID-19 vaccines. Providers say they are poised to do more -- once more vaccine doses are available to the state. But South Dakotans want to know: when will the federal government provide those doses? Are there ways to increase production of safe and effective vaccines now two options have been FDA approved? South Dakota Secretary of Health Kim Malsom

In The Moment … January 27th, 2021 Show 979 Hour 1 Every day during the 2021 South Dakota legislative session, we bring you inside the rooms where policies that impact your life are being discussed and voted on. We call the segment "In Their Own Words." Today we bring you proceedings from the Senate Health and Human Services committee. The committee has supported the Department of Health's request to keep certain restrictions regarding COVID-19 in place. Restrictions were agreed to during the

In The Moment … January 27th, 2021 Show 979 Hour 1 At least some of the big news in Pierre today is happening away from the Capitol building as the court battle over legal marijuana begins at the Hughes County Courthouse. It may seem like we've covered this ground before, but abortion and transgender legislation leads the news in the early days of the 2021 state legislative session. Our Dakota Political Junkies today are Jonathan Ellis and Jon Schaff. Ellis is an investigative reporter with the

In The Moment … January 26th, 2021 Show 978 Hour 2 For today's "In Their Own Words" segment, we take you inside the Senate Education Committee as members first round of testimony on Senate Bill 68. It's a bill that would establish community school guidelines with flexible curriculum emphasizing native language and cultural interests. A similar bill was approved in the Senate last year but failed in the House. Debate on SB 68 continued this morning in the Senate Education Committee. After further