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Every satellite photo of Earth lives in Sioux Falls
Fifty years of Landsat -- the satellite program that has photographed every square mile of Earth's land surface, repeatedly, since 1972 -- has one physical home. It isn't in Washington, or Houston, or anywhere you'd guess. It's in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the same city that processes a huge share of the country's credit card transactions.
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Why your credit card bill comes from Sioux Falls
In February 1980, a broke state and a bank losing money on credit cards made a secret deal. South Dakota repealed its own interest-rate c...
The richest state no one thinks is rich
South Dakota holds more than $900 billion in trust assets -- more than the GDP of most countries -- because state law lets a trust run fo...
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