PIERRE, South Dakota, April 15 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Governor Noem signed Executive Order 2023-04 to protect South Dakotan's Second Amendment rights from being infringed upon by financial institutions. "This Executive Order will protect the God-given right to keep and bear arms from being infringed upon by financial institutions," said Governor Noem. "South Dakota is setting the standard for the most 2nd Amendment friendly state in the nation.   more

PIERRE, South Dakota, April 13 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release: Scott Bollinger, Commissioner of the Bureau of Administration (BOA), announced that he will be retiring in June of 2023. Governor Noem thanked Commissioner Bollinger for his years of service to the state and announced plans to merge the Bureau of Administration and the Bureau of Human Resources. Governor Noem also appointed Chas Olson as Interim Director of the South Dakota Housing Developmen  more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, April 11 (TNSfund) -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: Jihong Cole-Dai, a professor in South Dakota State University's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded a collaborative $424,310 National Science Foundation grant to study chemicals trapped in the ice cores of Greenland. Cole-Dai and researchers from the University of Washington will travel to Greenland later this spring to collect about 1,000 pounds of ice and snow sample  more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, April 12 (TNSres) -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: The Spring 2023 Poll, conducted between March 18-27th 2023, is a survey of the South Dakota electorate by The SDSU Poll - a non-partisan research group housed in the School of American and Global Studies at South Dakota State University. In this poll, 747 registered voters answered questions about political figures and policy questions of concern to South Dakota citizens. The margin of error o  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 11 -- The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance issued the following news on April 10, 2023: The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance's Securities Division ("TDCI") announced today that it has joined a multi-state settlement with Robinhood Financial LLC, which will pay up to $10.2 million in penalties for operational and technical failures that harmed main street investors. The settlement stems from an investigation spearheaded by state securities r  more