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about the state's workforce challenges and opportunities, Daugaard said in a statement Wednesday.
• • "We have abundant career opportunities and great employers to tout in South Dakota," he said. "The biggest constraint on our economic growth is available labor supply. We must continuously review our current efforts to develop and expand our workforce."
• • Meetings are planned Tuesday, April 29, at Mitchell Technical Institute in Mitchell; Wednesday, May 21, at Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown; Thursday, May 22, at the Days Inn Convention Center in Brookings; Tuesday, June 3, at the Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn in Rapid City; Wednesday, June 4, at the Dakota Event Center in Aberdeen; and Tuesday, June 17, at the Sioux Falls Convention Center in Sioux Falls.
• • All of the meetings are to run from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. They are free and open to the public, but space is limited and pre-registration is required.
• • South Dakota was tied with Nebraska for the second-lowest unemployment rate in the nation at 3.6 percent, and just behind the national low of 2.6 percent in North Dakota, according to latest U.S. Labor Department figures for the month of February.
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• • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The mayor of South Dakota's largest city will serve another four years in office, while the mayor of Yankton has been ousted. Voters around the state also decided other issues ranging from pool projects to property tax proposals.
• • Sioux Falls voters on Tuesday backed Mayor Mike Huether for another term, over challenger Greg Jamison, who will continue to serve as a city councilman. Unofficial returns show Huether winning with about 55 percent of the vote.
• • Huether said he felt blessed. He said he wants to continue to develop the city while keeping "that piggy bank fat and happy." Mayors in Sioux Falls can only serve two consecutive terms.
• • Jamison said he was exhausted and disappointed but thankful for the opportunity.
• • In Yankton, incumbent Mayor Nancy Wenande finished fourth among four City Commission candidates and was ousted. The commission will reorganize next month, according to the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan.
• • Wenande said she was "absolutely devastated."

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