As parents filled their shopping carts with pencils and notebooks to prepare their children for the new school year, superintendents across the state were dealing with some daunting back-to-school lists of their own. Read More »
We asked North and South Dakota candidates for federal or statewide positions to tell how they would serve rural places. Here are the responses from those who answered our request. Read More »
As the harvest season begins, Dakotafire Media is challenging people in the Dakotas to go local. Read More »
When a professor of photography stumbled upon a couple albums of photographs in the display cases of an antique mall, he felt a tug at his heartstrings. These two albums were pieces of a previous lifetime. Haunting and elusive, they clung to his memory like the dust of time. Read More »
Infographic: Number of S.D. public districts, 1919-2014; History of District Reorganization for N.D. Schools, 1990–present Read More »
Infographic: History of District Reorganization for South Dakota Schools 1950-present Read More »
The Dakota Local Food Challenge is a way for people in the Dakotas to get better connected to the land and the people who produce our food by eating food produced locally for two weeks in September. Read More »
The recently implemented Common Core Standards aim to get students to be “college- and career-ready” by the time they finish high school. Those are both laudable goals. But I think from the perspective of communities, something vital is missing: Will our students be “citizenship-ready”? Read More »
GROW South Dakota, in partnership with Dakotafire Media, has been awarded a Bush Foundation Community Innovation Grant for the implementation of a two-year project called the Prairie Idea Exchange. This goal of the project is sparking regionwide conversations to help rural communities, especially those in northeastern South Dakota, be more successful in their efforts to create positive change. The project will make use of the expertise of the region’s economic development leaders to start the conversations, and it will use the journalism skills and reach of Dakotafire magazine to explain those ideas and spread them across the region. These conversations will continue in online forums and at community events, which will add the voices of community members to the exchange of ideas. Read More »
HOW LO(CAL) CAN YOU GO? Find out in the Sept. 6-19, 2014 What is the Dakota Local Food Challenge? The Dakota Local Food Challenge is a way for people in the Dakotas to get better connected to the land and the people who produce our food by eating food produced locally for two weeks in September (Saturday, Sept. 6, through ... Read More »
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