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SD Senate panel approves longer abortion wait
By Lance [email protected]
The group planning to build a pulse crop processing plant in Harrold this year has sur-passed its first fundraising tar-get, meaning the plant will defi-nitely be built, organizers say.
“We have reached our mini-mum, so it’s a go,” said Brian Minish, one of the board mem-
bers for South Dakota Pulse Processors.
The plan was to raise $1.5 million to $2 million in order to build the plant in Harrold, in the northeast corner of Hughes County.
Minish said the group reached the $1.5 million mark Tuesday, while an additional $40,000 rolled in on Wednesday as more investors jumped on
board.“We’ll take up to $2 million
and keep it open for at least a couple more weeks,” Minish said.
Minish said 65 investors so far have put in an average of nearly $25,000 each to get the project to this point.
“We’re sure to be able to start processing this year’s crop, the 2013 crop,” Minish said, but
added it’s still unsettled as to when the plant would be com-pleted and able to accept crop for processing.
South Dakota Pulse Processors LLC., a limited liability company formed in January 2012, plans to open a 5,550-square-foot plant to pro-cess pulse crops such as lentils,
Harrold pulse crop processing project is a go
Bill nixing exclusive school broadcast contracts passesBy Justin [email protected]
A bill giving all media organizations an equal shot at broadcasting high school sports is one step closer to law.
The South Dakota House passed SB119 by a 50-20 margin Wednesday.
The bill says no school district or school board may interfere with news media attending and reporting on – including live streaming – any interscholastic high school activity or event.
The bill was brought up this legislative session in part because media out-lets, including the Capital Journal and KCCR, a radio station, have been unable to live broadcast sporting events in the Pierre School District due to an exclusive contract the district made with Dakota Radio Group.
Under the terms of the exclusive contract, signed in 2008, Dakota Radio Group paid $7,500 annually for the first three years, and $10,000 for the remaining two in return for sole broadcasting rights – with an exception for media traveling with an out-of-town team – to all
Senate adds referendum to school-sentinels planBy BoB Mercerstate capitol Bureau
PIERRE – State senators decided Wednesday local voters should have the opportunity for the final word if their school board decides to put armed senti-nels in the district’s build-ings and at school events.
That major change was one of three amendments made before the Senate gave its approval 21-14 Wednesday.
The measure, HB 1087, now returns to the House of Representatives for a decision whether to agree or send the bill to a House-Senate conference commit-tee for negotiation.
School board decisions typically can’t be referred.
The House likely will agree with that change,
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By aLLison [email protected]
If you’re in the market to buy or sell a home in the Pierre area, you may have noticed a trend.
“Most of the realtors in Pierre are women, and a lot of our state
realtors are w o m e n , ” s a i d M e r e d i t h Lee, broker and owner of Linn Real Estate. “You don’t meet a realtor and say, ‘Oh, it’s
a woman. I wasn’t expecting that.’ It’s completely different than a lot of (other industries).”
Historically, women have been involved in real estate almost since its inception in 1794 and its establishment as a legitimate busi-ness in the 1840s, according to the National Association of Realtors. Women began doing office and clerical work, but by the 1880s, they were gradually moving into
the roles of agents and brokers.However, women real estate
agents and brokers working full-time made 66 percent of the earn-ings men made in 2012 – the fourth-largest gender gap reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But despite the gap in pay, the majority of professional realtors, 60 percent, are female, dominating the residential real estate market nationwide.
In South Dakota, there are about 48 percent more female agents than male agents, but men list 87 percent more homes, according to an Oct. 2011 report released by industry website Trulia.
The National Association of Realtors reports that the typi-cal realtor is a 56-year-old white woman, who has attended college and is a homeowner. Eighteen per-cent of association members had a previous career in management, business or the financial sector, 15 percent had a previous career in sales or retail, and only 5 percent of members reported real estate
Pierre realtor Pamela Cronin of River Bridge Realty has been a businesswoman for 35 years. She owns Forney Cronin Studio of Dance Arts in Pierre and after beginning work as a realtor in 2000, opened her own firm in 2010.
Realtor Cathy Sonnenschein opened her own real estate company in April 2011 and will celebrate her 39th year in real estate this May.
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Women in real estate see ‘no glass ceiling,’ despite gender gap in pay
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By chet Brokawassociated press
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota Senate commit-tee on Wednesday approved an extension of what is already the nation’s longest waiting period for a woman to receive an abortion.
Women seeking abortions in
South Dakota currently must wait three days after seeing an abortion clinic doctor before they can have the procedure. The measure approved by the State Affairs Committee would make it so that weekends and holidays do not count in cal-culating the three-day waiting period.
The 6-3 vote by the State
Affairs Committee means the measure now goes to the full Senate. The House has already
approved the proposal.Supporters said the change
would ensure that women have time to reflect and seek coun-seling before ending a pregnan-cy, but opponents said it could hamper many women seeking abortions. The 2011 law that established the three-day wait-ing period also requires women seeking to terminate a preg-
nancy to undergo counseling at pregnancy help centers, which discourage abortions.
Planned Parenthood, which operates the only abortion clinic in the state in Sioux Falls, challenged the law in court but recently withdrew its appeal of the three-day wait.
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The 2011 law that established the three-day waiting period also re-quires women seeking to terminate a pregnancy to undergo counseling at pregnancy help centers, which discourage abortions.
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