Lee Strubinger
Lee Strubinger is SDPB’s Rapid City-based news and political reporter. A former reporter for Fort Lupton Press (CO) and Colorado Public Radio, Lee holds a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield.
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A South Dakota reservation is the third stop on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's listening tour to acknowledge suffering caused by government-backed boarding schools for Native Americans.
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The Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota has banned outside missionaries in response to one evangelist's pamphlet denigrating traditional faith practices.
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Tim Giago, who started some of the first Native American newspapers, including The Lakota Times, died Sunday at 88. He spent decades building a media landscape by and for Native people.
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South Dakota is sheltering billions of dollars in wealth, some linked to individuals and companies accused of financial crimes according to documents uncovered in the Pandora papers probe.
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President Trump is planning to celebrate Independence Day at Mount Rushmore Friday evening. But hours before the event, protesters have blocked one of the major highways into the site.
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City leaders in South Dakota are asking Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, to reconsider her stance not to issue a statewide stay-at-home order. She says she wants to take each situation as it comes. -
South Dakota's state Senate will take up a bill on Monday that the House passed making it a crime for doctors to perform gender confirmation surgery or prescribe puberty blockers for kids under 16.
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State lawmakers in South Dakota are moving on a bill that criminalizes gender confirmation surgery and puberty blockers for minors under 16. Other similar bills are popping up around the country.
