January 26, 2026—9-10---It’s YOUR Business—Show 50-86

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   I’m Bill Zortman and welcome to another Monday----and yes next Monday on February 2nd---it will be the first Monday of the 2nd month of the year.

   Before we get into what is going on with the Legislature---and other areas this week-----Tony Bachman----on a Monday—shares what he is seeing real estate wise---at the first glance in January---and where he and others see us going

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   Up coming events---for Home Builders and others-----

   We had been visiting with you about selling our Hartford Home this year---but with the cold weather----we are studying---but want to make sure that (1) we could sell for the right price (2) that we could buy for the right price (3) that with Carolyn and I getting a little older---that we weren’t moving out and moving in with frigid forces around us---

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    Trends you are seeing----the kind of wants that are out there---and the marketplace itself in  2026-----

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    Questions you are being asked----more moves in town or from other areas moving here----and where----

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     The year itself-----what you are seeing ahead-----and the kind of questions you are expecting----

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     How they reach you----and your fabulous Real Estate Team---

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    Tony Bachman-----appreciate all you do for those coming and going and informing our radio audience as well…

------------another week in Pierre---we’ll get you the first look as we continue on our It’s YOUR Business Show..

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  Welcome back to It’s YOUR Business----good to have you with us on the final Monday of January ------

   We will be watching closely in Pierre the session continues to get attention----and we have lots of questions we’ll be asking today---and all week---and our job is to look at the issues----find the people that are in place---and let them tell us what they are thinking.

   Key amongst them is Tyler Tordesen Sioux Metro Group----that comes from so many communities and they work together to learn—to educate and help people with issues they need help on.

   Tyler---this legislative session-----where are we this morning on January 26th----

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    For those that don’t know what the Sioux Metro Growth Group does—fill us in ---and how can those listening learn a few things or really as many as they want----

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    We’ll check the news notes----and return with more of our first show of the new week---the last week of January—following Fox Business News on the half hour---

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   Welcome back to It’s YOUR Business-----last Monday of January 2026---

   Our Agri Business Show will be up at 10:06 this morning---

   Yes in Pierre they are back to business this morning----

   We know there is a lot of talk—and as we start the last week of January---we wanted some insight in both the 9 and 10 hour---

   Casey Crabtree---where are we for the legislative session----and what kind of steps will our audience being hearing this week from you and other lawmakers that are hoping to make some tracks that can help people facing might below zero temperatures---and often some cool receptions when they need help here in their home state of South Dakota---

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    How will they write the chapter----about the first month of the January days of the South Dakota Legislature----

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   What still needs done---to get something else accomplished----and what is your best hope for how the 2026---Legislative Session will not only finish this month---but the session---what still needs done----and why----

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    Kind of questions you are being asked when you head home about what we are doing---and when the assembly can get a few other things done—

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    Two items you really want to get finished this week—and with that the end of January---

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    Casey Crabtree—and yes in our 10:00 hour this morning Tony Mangan—says he’ll join us----

---------just ahead---I got tired of all the talk from the Twin Cities over the weekend---about Kristie Noem conversation---and one of the things I saw this morning was a candidate for Office for the US Senate in South Dakota----that needed a platform to talk about what he is seeing---

That next---stay with us---

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  We find ourselves asking a simple yet profound question---who are we---

  I haven’t met Julian Beaudion—running for the US Senate in South Dakota—and called him—he said he’d come in and lets talk—we have heard enough from those from DC----from Minnesota talking about it—but lets listen today

Who Are We?

We find ourselves asking a simple yet profound question: Who are we?

  Not as a political slogan, not as a rallying cry, but as an honest plea forreflection.

   At a time when the streets of Minneapolis have been a witness to yet another life cut short, a compassionate ICU nurse, a neighbor, a human

Being ,shot by federal agents during an immigration enforcement operation, we must pause. –

    Linked Star Tribune

     Earlierthis month, 37-year-old Renée Good, a mother and citizen, was killed by an ICE agent during an enforcement action that shocked local residents and fueled nationwide debate about the role of federal law enforcement in our communities.

    – Linked TIME

And then, again, another life — Alex Pretti — whose work cared for veterans, whose friends described him as driven by empathy, was taken in a hail of bullets as he recorded and tried to help others amidst the chaos of enforcement. – Linked The Guardian

    These are not just headlines. These are human stories. Loved ones whose absence will never be filled, whose lives mattered beyond the moment of tragedy.

     So we must ask again: Who are we?

     Are we a nation that values human dignity above all?

     Do we want to be people who see one another’s suffering and respond with empathy rather than escalation?

     Do we protect the vulnerable with the same passion we protect ourselves?

     These questions matter because at the core of any society is a simple truth: Our strength is not measured by the force we show, but by the compassion we show to one another.

      When a mother loses her life, or a caregiver falls in the streets of a city struggling to make sense of itself, the wound is not just local, it reverberates through every community that believes in justice, fairness, and the sanctity of life.

   ----Julian-----I know you are running for US Senate----my job having done 5100 radio shows and more than 5000 Tv newscasts—is not to take sides---but ask questions---pretty serious questions right now---and I’m still not taking sides—but asking questions how should we in South Dakota----feel about what has happened again in the Twin Cities taking a life like this----

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     We appreciate you sharing answers to my questions—that could have been asked to a Democratic or Republican situation----just had to be asked---even-handedly here in South Dakota.

    Thanks for the visit—

 --we’ll be you ready for our 10:00 Ag Business show after one more time out..

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   Lots to talk about in our 10:00 Agri Business Show—the rock Rep –you hear once a month----morning commodities---and what’s happening in Pierre----Tony Mangan will be joining us---

  --------for now—our time is up-thank you for yours.