Kevin Gonzalez
Reporter
Sioux Falls
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Kevin grew up in Oregon, where he graduated from Clackamas High School. He would then study at Clackamas Community College, before attending Washington State University. At Washington State, he would study broadcast journalism at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communications.
When he was younger, he played baseball and became a fan of many sports. His favorite teams are the Portland Trailblazers (NBA), Portland Timbers (MLS), Seattle Mariners (MLB), and the Seattle Seahawks (NFL).
Kevin joined the Dakota News Now team in 2020.
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Making sure you’re wearing the proper safety gear, helmets are huge, googles making sure you have clear visibility, another big one is a riding boot or even a work boot that’s laced up over your ankle.
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Leaving a reservoir of someplace the disease can circulate freely with no hindrance by vaccination or otherwise leaves a population as a whole open to the continued circulation of a virus.
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CF is a very isolating disease, we know people that might be the only person in their county that have it and when we’re able to get people together, it makes that disease seem a lot less isolating.
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South Dakota is the best place to hunt pheasants in the country and that’s the reason I keep coming back here.
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A lot of people need to know about what the white cane is and the white cane laws and know the abilities that blind people are capable of.
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They believe that it’s impactful in two ways: one encouraging people to get vaccinated and two we were able to take some of these federal dollars and invest them back into our community through our local chamber bucks,
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The federal congress in Washington D.C. is going to need to create a regulatory framework of which everyone can follow and understand these are the rules for college athletics moving forward,
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You know as a patient you don’t really care how common your disease is other than the fact that you have it, and you have to live with it.
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As the events were unfolding we were texting each other and started writing the survey, literally with the TV on in the background.
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Voting is the foundation of our democracy, and we want to make sure that people get a chance to register that way when the election comes around their information is accurate.
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The station gives us the opportunity for some of our younger members or up-and-coming leaders to develop more of a role in the station.
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People here hold the door for you and we’re not used to that, ‘we’re used to the big city where you’re kind of like just another number.
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Reproductive rights rallies are taking place nationwide this weekend. These marches, organized by the Women’s March, come after one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in US history recently took effect in Texas.
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Coach Rich Lundstrom asked me to figure out how we can keep the money local, so we decided to set up a cancer fund with our Canton-Inwood area health foundation.
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You have to have the basic necessities for those kids so there will be money spent on those kids that are not taken into account in our current system.
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It’s important that children be supported and both parents of got an obligation to do that.
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That’s what we’re here for to listen to the public so they can have input into the process.
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A clean ecosystem shows that we care for our environment, we care for our community, and it’s important to take pride and ownership of your natural resources.
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We’ve been pretty surprised at the response, we’ve had as many people call up and say you know what I want to come work for you, as we’ve had other people say you know what maybe this isn’t the place for me.
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I think it’s important for people to know we’re there not for just this event and not just to raise money for this event, we’re here to listen to you, we’re there if you need a ride or if you need food on your table,
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For us, it’s always about differentiating Augustana, were the first to do it and that means something to us because we’re the pioneers and I think that there will be others that follow because of the popularity of the sport nationwide.
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The goal of the walk was to bring members of the community together to support children and families who have been or are currently being cared for at the children’s hospital.
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You don’t have to know everything about the game to come out here and have a good time it’s really all about building that camaraderie, spending time with other people in the community.
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The Brandon Police Department will never call you and ask for donations so if you get a call with somebody claiming to be from the Brandon Police department and there asking for money it’s not from us.
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Yesterday we went out to meet with a customer who wants a particular kind of furnace and when we reached out to our vendor to see whats the lead time on getting this, they told us it’s going to be next spring,
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It makes me really proud to see all these kids out here today showing their support standing in solidarity whether they’re native or non-native.
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It represents 343 firefighters that sacrificed their lives to climb those towers to evacuate people, as people were running out, they were running in to save more people, it’s a day of remembrance about what this job is about,
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I’ve lost weight, can’t sleep, I want to cry, but that’s nothing compared to what my friends are going through hiding in a hobble somewhere in Kabul or in northern Afghanistan someplace knowing that there could be people trying to turn them in or get a list with their names on them,
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This is not the time to stay silent, this is not the time to just sit back and hope the courts or legislation will work, this is the time to stand up and say no this is not acceptable.
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The Sioux Falls City Council voted to approve a new zoning ordinance for medical marijuana by a vote of 6-2. They also added new medical cannabis regulations, after passing several amendments to the ordinance by a vote of 7-1.
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They’re letting us become part of their families so that we know that Brooklyn carries on
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We’re paying some extraordinarily high prices for food today, but on the flip side of it the farmers and ranchers really aren’t seeing that pricing on our end.
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It’s been a little bit of a unique challenge, we had to have a short week with practice and kind of re-arrange some of the things we do typically for our Friday night game.
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We cannot emphasize that enough, the vaccine is the way we get out of this situation.
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I know there is division but I think ultimately what we all want is a quality education for our students and I would like if we could all work together for that,
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The wind hit and my ceiling came down in my bedroom, I didn’t know it at the time but a tree had fallen and taken out the corner of my house.
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We live on the lake, so we have a lift, but we were pulling it out today because the water is so low it’s tough to get off the lift at this point,
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Obviously, it’s a very dangerous area right now, but my assumption is our military will do its best to try and restore some security to that area and when that happens, we’ll try and get these folks back here.
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We’ve seen pictures and we’ve seen videos but being here it’s totally different it’s packed. It’s awesome having the support from Sioux Falls, it’s great.
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None of us wanted to be revisiting this idea of COVID-related recommendations for the community, but we have seen a surge in the delta variant in our community and we’ve seen a surge of positive cases.
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It gave the family a chance to see how much that person’s career meant to us and to them, it was just a beautiful way to honor someone who had passed away and be able to give that tribute to their family and their loved ones.
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Riverfest is really a celebration of the Big Sioux River and this beautiful space here all under the arc of dreams.
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This is the first year that we’ve struggled to find even close to our number of trees and we’re still short several hundred.
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It’s going to create an activity and a buzz in uptown Sioux Falls, adding to everything that’s already happening here.
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We’re seeing it across the board right now fishing, hunting, camping, any outdoor activity has grown a bunch.
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The carnival operator came and said you know what we’ve been doing this for 55 years this is the most families together we’ve seen in a long time.
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We need to know what those reasons are and we need to be able to focus our message around those reasons, so we’re not wasting our energy on the wrong approaches.
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I’d like to be called, I could have shut them in, and we could have prevented this.
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This is a road map, a strategic plan for designating these one-time funds that are available to make some transformative long-term investments for the benefit of our community and certainly our residents.
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You can do as much as you want or as little as you want, just so long as you’re doing something,