“We wanted 75. We got 36.” As Jodi writes, we can do better as a community in connecting with kids who are asking for adults to be part of their lives.

Among dozens of speakers and hours of testimony around a proposed data center is a broader message that shouldn’t ignored.

“As I look to the second half of the 2020s, I feel more excited for the future of Sioux Falls than I have in probably the past 20 years.”

“Public-private partnerships, like the one that birthed Cherapa Place, are the path to creating a place where businesses want to invest and residents subsequently want to put down roots.”

Behind this distinctive skeleton in west-central Sioux Falls is a story of doing small things for great community good.

There still are dining-out dollars to be captured by savvy operators, but locally, Jodi writes that it feels like restaurants are competing in a saturated landscape for cautious consumers.