By Bill Harlan

Blogmorite Doug Wiken had a great idea in his comment to the previous topic. Doug wrote:

” … There should be a “Top 10 Stories that Never Hit the Newspages”.. stuff like the 99-year leases Janklow gave to a Mexican corporation have still not been investigated or challenged. And so on…..”

Now here’s topic tailor-made for a little place we like to call “the Internet.” What are the state’s top unreported stories? To make it more interesting, you can include the under-reported stories.

The top under-reported story on my list remains poverty on South Dakota Indian reservations in general and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in particular. We report on that issue regularly at the RCJ. I just think that in terms of persistence, scope and severity of impact this is by far the worst disaster in the state. It’s a century-long disaster. Longer, actually. But for most of us it’s out of sight, out of mind.

That’s my soapbox. What’s on your “top 10 ignored” list.