Jason Harward

The tourism grants, set to come online in July, will be targeted to help tourism-related businesses and organizations with peak season advertising.

For Rick Weiland, a longtime understudy of former Senator Tom Daschle, says he's focused on ballot measures that bring victories on "kitchen-table issues."

"We can empower people to make healthy choices, get active, and hopefully prevent the onset of costly chronic conditions," Thune said about the proposal, now backed by some three-dozen lawmakers.

"Even though they're in different parts of the state, they're affecting people in the same way,” a Leola resident said about the connection between carbon pipelines and other eminent domain issues.

"I don't see any reason for turning it into a political body since it's done really well being apolitical," one state lawmaker said.

“Right now, I’m in shock, and I can’t believe it. I guess I’ve always been kind of a pessimist and prepared for the worst,” a local landowner said.

“There’s a considerable amount of trust given to the administration on federal fund authority,” a top Republican senator said. “They ought to work to protect that trust.”

"It tough to get the project to pan out economically because you end up with so much money in for each lot," one economic development official said during a planning district meeting.

“We have to think about what our priorities are, especially considering the threats we face around the world,” South Dakota U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds said.

The prime sponsor of House Bill 1009, Rep. Ben Krohmer, R-Mitchell, said the change would offer more daylight during the darkest days of winter.