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Three more newspapers are participating in the Dakotafire project, bringing our total to 14 newspapers in North and South Dakota. Read More »

People from rural towns always have the impression that people from the big cities are “unfriendly” because we rarely (if ever) wave to strangers as we drive down the highway. Read More »

Are low expectations haunting the halls of rural Dakota high schools? I'd say yes, in some ways. But I think there's also a decidedly mixed message coming out of our rural schools, and it may well be because we in rural places have convinced ourselves that success can't happen here. Read More »

See if you can see what bothered me in the first two graphs of the press release that the S.D. Department of Labor released on Tuesday. Read More »

The real Christmas trees that added special magic to this year's holiday season can now find a second purpose by recycling, says SDSU Extension Forestry Specialist John Ball during a recent iGrow Radio Network Interview. Read More »

Winter officially starts Dec. 21, and we'd like to note that with a new photo to serve as the background image on Dakotafire.net. Read More »

Cities may be fertile ground for new ideas, but rural places provide changes for interaction with the land itself—sparking ideas that are rooted in the harsh and beautiful reality of the world we inhabit. Read More »

Dakota Roots is a good program that could be better for the rural areas of the state if it looked beyond job openings to considering marketplace opportunities. Read More »

If we bypass community concerns in the search for self-fulfillment, we aren't likely to get there at all. Read More »

From muzzle-loading, to weaving, to old-time fiddle, to traditional cooking, the sights, smells and sounds of yesteryear can be experienced this Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Granary Rural Cultural Center in rural Groton, S.D. Read More »