Each candidate sat down with Sioux Falls Simplified for an interview to talk through a number of important issues – including many reader-submitted topics. Here's your Simplified guide to the mayor's race.

Sioux Falls' childcare crisis is well-documented, including noting that it costs more in one year to send your kid to a childcare center in Sioux Falls than it would to send them to a South Dakota state university.

Sioux Falls Simplified asked all five mayoral candidates about their plans to balance the city's limited natural resources with continued growth and development in the city.

One of Mayor Paul TenHaken's big initiatives in his final term as mayor was an effort to purchase land downtown – the Riverline District – as a proposed site for a new convention center. Will that continue with a new administration?

Sioux Falls Simplified chatted with all five mayoral candidates about how they plan to approach funding the city's growing public safety needs.

Sioux Falls mayoral candidates discuss how they view the appropriate level of collaboration between local police and federal immigration officials.

As we see more public art across town, Sioux Falls Simplified asked mayoral candidates how they'd approach decisions related to funding these projects.

One of the topics that came up most from Sioux Falls Simplified readers was the city's approach to homelessness and supporting Sioux Falls' unhoused population.

Here's what the five mayoral candidates had to say about their approach to addressing affordable housing needs in the community.

Sioux Falls Simplified sat down with nearly all of the candidates to talk through a lot of very important policy issues – and one kinda silly one.