Mitchell, Worthing mayors opposed to nearby prison sites
However, the mayors of those two towns are not in favor of the locations near their communities.
Motorcycle event an alternative to street racing
'Personally, I do not support,' Worthing Mayor Crystal Jacobson said Wednesday. 'It will be financially impacting on our town in a way that I don't know if we can recover from it.'
'I don't support it just because the people don't appear to support it around our town,' Mitchell Mayor Jordan Hanson said Wednesday. 'So, I hate to be the guy that does the opposite of what the people elected me to do … I don't know better than the people I'm elected to represent, so that's what I'm doing.'
Hanson says his thinking has evolved.
'When I first heard about it, I was really excited about it, the promise of jobs and economic expansion and just the betterment it could bring to our community was my initial reaction, and that's why I was like, this sounds great,' Hanson said.
Now, he has a clear message for anyone considering the sites.
'If they want or the task force or the state wants it to come to Mitchell, they better really step up their game and start getting people information in our community if they really want to get people on board,' Hanson said.
Jacobson is focused on the financial considerations.
'We do not have enough structure for additional housing if inmates' families or workers want to move down there,' Jacobson said. 'We just built a new sewer system that'll accommodate 130 houses, and after that we would have to go the next step up in the sewer. We don't have the money for it. We're on a very small budget.'
The task force's next meeting is scheduled for July 8. Eventually, a special session of the state legislature is planned where lawmakers can learn about the group's recommendations.
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
New York Post
9 hours ago
- New York Post
Hunter Biden begged DNC to pay his legal fees for tax, gun cases: new tome
WASHINGTON — Then-first son Hunter Biden begged the Democratic National Committee to foot his mounting legal bills for the federal tax and gun charges he faced last year, according to an explosive new tell-all. The DNC was paying the legal fees for dad Joe Biden, who was still president at the time, over a separate federal probe into whether the commander in chief hoarded classified documents — but scoffed at also covering Hunter's extra legal costs, says the book '2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America.' By June 2024, Hunter's 'sugar brother' Kevin Morris had already paid off more than $2 million in tax delinquency related to one of then-first son's criminal cases and had been shelling out even more for his related legal bills. Advertisement 3 Then-first son Hunter Biden begged the Democratic National Committee to foot his mounting legal bills for federal tax and gun charges he faced last year. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Those bills included ongoing alimony payments to Hunter's ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, and child-support checks to Lunden Roberts, the mother of his love-child Navy Joan, as set out in a June 2023 settlement. Hunter's legal tab as the presidential contest ramped up in January 2024 stood at around $5 million, Morris testified to House Republican investigators. Advertisement Morris' daughter later accused the troubled first son of 'taking advantage' of her father's largesse. 3 The seamy first son was convicted of three felony gun charges June 11, 2024. Last month, the law firm that represented Hunter also sued him for reneging on more than $50,000 in legal fees. Hunter was convicted of three felony gun charges June 11, 2024, and pleaded guilty to multiple tax felonies for evading $1.4 million in payments to the IRS in September. Advertisement His father months later pardoned him of all those charges as well as any related to potential crimes he may have committed between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1, 2024. 3 Former President Joe Biden handed his son a controversial sweeping pardon before leaving office. WireImage 'The only thing I care about is that my son is not convicted,' Biden told a close friend before Hunter's first conviction, according to journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf in their forthcoming book, which was excerpted Thursday in the Wall Street Journal. The president at one point considered forming a legal defense fund for his son to push back on the federal probe as well as the parallel congressional investigation into Hunter's foreign influence peddling that could potentially implicate him. Advertisement '2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,' is being published by Penguin Press on July 8. Reps for the DNC and Hunter's former lawyer, Abbe Lowell, did not respond to Post requests for comment.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Yahoo
Trump says there likely won't be a trade deal with ‘spoiled' Japan
President Trump says Japan, which he characterized as 'spoiled,' will likely not make a deal with the United States on a tariff rate ahead of the looming deadline next week. 'We dealt with Japan. I'm not sure if we're going to make a deal. I doubt it with Japan — they're very tough. You have to understand, they're spoiled. I love Japan. I really like the new prime minister, too. Abe was one of my closest friends, as you know,' he said on Tuesday, referring to former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe who died in 2022. The president hosted the current Japanese prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, at the White House in February. Trump noted this week that Japan has a rice crisis that has elevated prices, arguing the country should turn to the U.S. for rice. 'But they and others are so spoiled from having ripped us off for 30, 40 years that it's really hard for them to make a deal. You know, it's very hard. As an example with Japan, they won't take rice, and yet they desperately need rice,' he said. 'They won't take any cars, but they'll sell millions. So, we told them, 'Sorry you can't do that.'' The president said Japan will likely get a letter that would set the tariff rate ahead of the July 8 expiration of the 90-day pause on country-specific tariffs. Trump has said he will send letters soon to trading partners who haven't struck deals. 'So what I'm going to do is I'll write them a letter, say, 'We thank you very much. We know you can't do the kind of things that we need, and therefore you'll pay a 30 percent, 35 percent or whatever the numbers that we determine,'' he said. 'Because we also have a very big trade deficit with Japan, as you know and it's very unfair to the American people.' Trump on Monday also suggested Japan would not get a trade deal with the U.S., sharing on Truth Social, 'To show people how spoiled Countries have become with respect to the United States of America, and I have great respect for Japan, they won't take our RICE, and yet they have a massive rice shortage.' Officials, though, have insisted for months that talks are progressing with trading partners, including with Japan, as well as with India and Vietnam. The administration has been working on trade deals during the 90-day tariff pause, but only agreements with China and the United Kingdom have been announced, despite the self-imposed ambitious goal of 90 deals in 90 days. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
2 days ago
- The Hill
FCC chairman climbs 200-foot Nexstar tower, lays out policy agenda
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission visited Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Wednesday, promoting his 'Build America' agenda for the FCC. Chairman Brendan Carr first stopped by the KELOLAND Media Group studio. KELO is a sister station of this news organization. Along with touring the station, Carr went hundreds of feet in the air. 'As FCC Chairman, I want to make it easier for America's telecom crews and tower techs to build out new networks and modern infrastructure,' Carr said in a news release about the trip to formally roll out his agenda. In the news release, Carr said he held his first policy speech in Sioux Falls because that's where he 'first put on a hardhat and harness to climb a tower.' 'The Build America agenda sets the guideposts that the agency will use to do exactly that—unleashing more investment and innovation, putting more shovels in dirt, and increasing connectivity for Americans in communities all across the country. In other words: it's time to build,' Carr said ahead of his visit. Carr then climbed the KELOLAND-TV tower outside our station, which is just over 200 feet, before departing for the formal speech at the Vikor Headquarters. Vikor is a wireless infrastructure construction company. During that speech, Carr focused his remarks on trimming red tape and modernizing infrastructure. Carr announced plans to phase out copper wire technology in favor of new high-speed networks. He also said changes would make it easier to attach high-speed lines to utility polls and other initiatives to streamline regulations. He announced the FCC would be moving to free up spectrum and auction it off, using those funds to replace aging infrastructure. He also pointed to early successes in speeding up the satellite permitting and launch process. 'The Build America agenda will expand America's space economy,' Carr said to the assembled crowd. 'I want to see U.S. companies dominate in orbit.' Carr said the package of policy initiatives would 'expand and strengthen America's blue-collar workforce.' Using the time to highlight the sometimes unseen work that keeps our communities connected. Carr, who had served as a FCC commissioner since 2017, was appointed FCC chairman by President Donald Trump in January.
