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Government Edition · South Dakota
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South Dakota Government Edition
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Today in South Dakota
A daily window into meetings, legislation and public activity — organized around official sources and understandable context.
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Your South Dakota
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Canonical geography
South Dakota counties and county equivalents
Each geography resolves backward to US-SD and forward into the same national place, records and program graph.
View all 66 canonical county relationships
Aurora CountyUS-SD-003 · FIPS 46003Beadle CountyUS-SD-005 · FIPS 46005Bennett CountyUS-SD-007 · FIPS 46007Bon Homme CountyUS-SD-009 · FIPS 46009Brookings CountyUS-SD-011 · FIPS 46011Brown CountyUS-SD-013 · FIPS 46013Brule CountyUS-SD-015 · FIPS 46015Buffalo CountyUS-SD-017 · FIPS 46017Butte CountyUS-SD-019 · FIPS 46019Campbell CountyUS-SD-021 · FIPS 46021Charles Mix CountyUS-SD-023 · FIPS 46023Clark CountyUS-SD-025 · FIPS 46025Clay CountyUS-SD-027 · FIPS 46027Codington CountyUS-SD-029 · FIPS 46029Corson CountyUS-SD-031 · FIPS 46031Custer CountyUS-SD-033 · FIPS 46033Davison CountyUS-SD-035 · FIPS 46035Day CountyUS-SD-037 · FIPS 46037Deuel CountyUS-SD-039 · FIPS 46039Dewey CountyUS-SD-041 · FIPS 46041Douglas CountyUS-SD-043 · FIPS 46043Edmunds CountyUS-SD-045 · FIPS 46045Fall River CountyUS-SD-047 · FIPS 46047Faulk CountyUS-SD-049 · FIPS 46049Grant CountyUS-SD-051 · FIPS 46051Gregory CountyUS-SD-053 · FIPS 46053Haakon CountyUS-SD-055 · FIPS 46055Hamlin CountyUS-SD-057 · FIPS 46057Hand CountyUS-SD-059 · FIPS 46059Hanson CountyUS-SD-061 · FIPS 46061Harding CountyUS-SD-063 · FIPS 46063Hughes CountyUS-SD-065 · FIPS 46065Hutchinson CountyUS-SD-067 · FIPS 46067Hyde CountyUS-SD-069 · FIPS 46069Jackson CountyUS-SD-071 · FIPS 46071Jerauld CountyUS-SD-073 · FIPS 46073Jones CountyUS-SD-075 · FIPS 46075Kingsbury CountyUS-SD-077 · FIPS 46077Lake CountyUS-SD-079 · FIPS 46079Lawrence CountyUS-SD-081 · FIPS 46081Lincoln CountyUS-SD-083 · FIPS 46083Lyman CountyUS-SD-085 · FIPS 46085McCook CountyUS-SD-087 · FIPS 46087McPherson CountyUS-SD-089 · FIPS 46089Marshall CountyUS-SD-091 · FIPS 46091Meade CountyUS-SD-093 · FIPS 46093Mellette CountyUS-SD-095 · FIPS 46095Miner CountyUS-SD-097 · FIPS 46097Minnehaha CountyUS-SD-099 · FIPS 46099Moody CountyUS-SD-101 · FIPS 46101Oglala Lakota CountyUS-SD-102 · FIPS 46102Pennington CountyUS-SD-103 · FIPS 46103Perkins CountyUS-SD-105 · FIPS 46105Potter CountyUS-SD-107 · FIPS 46107Roberts CountyUS-SD-109 · FIPS 46109Sanborn CountyUS-SD-111 · FIPS 46111Spink CountyUS-SD-115 · FIPS 46115Stanley CountyUS-SD-117 · FIPS 46117Sully CountyUS-SD-119 · FIPS 46119Todd CountyUS-SD-121 · FIPS 46121Tripp CountyUS-SD-123 · FIPS 46123Turner CountyUS-SD-125 · FIPS 46125Union CountyUS-SD-127 · FIPS 46127Walworth CountyUS-SD-129 · FIPS 46129Yankton CountyUS-SD-135 · FIPS 46135Ziebach CountyUS-SD-137 · FIPS 46137
Explore South Dakota
One state. Four ways in.
01 · PEOPLE
Officials & Candidates
Office, district, committees, public activity, election information and source-linked profiles.
02 · GOVERNMENT
Bills & Meetings
Legislation, committees, agendas, public actions and changes to the official record.
03 · COMMUNITIES
Economy & Development
Jobs, workforce, housing, infrastructure and public investment in context.
04 · LEARN
Government, Explained
Plain-English education on process, public records and economic-development tools.
DayMark Record
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Public Activity Record
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Accountability workflows
Ask the official — or request the records.
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PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST
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Open guided request →COMPLETE THE RECORD
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Economic-development education
Government decisions shape communities.
Public economic information can sit beside the government decisions and records that help explain it.
Jobs & Workforce
Employment, wages, labor force and workforce-development context.
Housing
Supply, affordability, development and public policy affecting communities.
Infrastructure
Transportation, utilities and public capital projects supporting communities.
Public Investment
Publicly documented incentives, grants, agreements and project outcomes.
Nonpartisan voter education
Election information should be easier to understand.
Comparable candidate pages, office explainers, public forums and official election resources — without endorsements.
VOTER GUIDE
Understand the office.
Explain what an office does before presenting comparable candidate information.
CANDIDATES
Comparable profiles.
Use the same structure and sourcing rules across candidates in the same contest.
PUBLIC FORUMS
Questions in public.
Archive questions, responses and source material with context attached.
OFFICIAL RESOURCES
Verify the basics.
Keep the official election authority directly accessible.
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