Where Buffaloes Roam, an Idea to Keep Local News Alive

This “editor” isn’t a slave to the police blotter. He prefers updated community-by-community economic figures. Town histories. Even collections, from the big 1972 flood or from generations of billboard signs around Rapid City, South Dakota.

“We don’t claim to be journalists, by any means,” says Jared McEntaffer, an economist who oversees the three-member staff of South Dakota’s Black Hills Knowledge Network.

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