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should. We appreciated the approach that it was fine if the city needed to come back more than once to get branches.
• The city kept us calm.
• Granted, the city spent and still is spending a great deal of money to help return Sioux Falls to normal, but it is doing so in an organized way that is making a difference. It's easy to complain about a bureaucracy, but when you need it, look at what it can do.
• In addition, companies that provide power in Sioux Falls and the outlying area worked hard to bring power back on for tens of thousands of homes. While it undoubtedly became more frustrating for residents the longer the power was out, those workers -- many coming from other states to help -- were appreciated. Given the amount of damage, they accomplished a lot in those first days after the storm and took the time to show kindness to people who had lived without heat and lights.
• We'd like to think the way the late spring ice storm was handled would be the way it would work in any natural disaster. Yes, the look of our community has been altered. But the people have shown how much they care and how neighborly they can be. That really hasn't changed. We hope it never does.
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• Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan, Yankton, April 22, 2013
• Neuharth was a man with a vision
• Perhaps one of the best tributes one can offer to the memory of Al Neuharth is that he was the most successful failure in the history of modern American journalism.
• This argument would be fair, since Neuharth once tried to create a publication devoted the South Dakota sports scene, SoDak Sports, in the early 1950s. It was an ambitious idea in the age before the Internet, computers and even sound roadways crossing the state. It was too ambitious, in fact, and folded two years later. Nevertheless, the will to wade into innovative territory never left Neuharth, and it ultimately led to the founding of USA Today, a daily national newspaper that literally altered the look and feel of print journalism in America in the late 20th century.
• Neuharth, the consummate newspaper man, reached his final deadline last Friday when he passed away at age 89. He leaves behind a legacy of change, challenge and triumph. And yet, as much as his vision of new kind of newspaper for a new kind of world reshaped the industry, he never lost sight of what newspapers -- and in fact, all media -- must be about.
• South Dakota is rightly proud of this native son, who never forgot the state he called home. Neuharth was a fervent South Dakotan to his dying day.

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