Anti-labor, anti-youth Republicans David and Al Novstrup resisted raising South Dakota’s minimum wage on the ridiculous argument that cutting wages gives young workers more opportunities.…
Month: May 2019
Ah, the circle of LIFE…. The Keystone XL pipeline will increase the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. Climate change is bringing more intense…
I am a liberal Democrat. Bob Newland is a dedicated Libertarian. We thus disagree on many issues. Yet Newland and I agree on the value…
Where two Aberdeen municipal candidates’ opposition to tree-planting requirements shows a short-sighted disdain for aesthetics and environmental science, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plan for a…
On the good side of the farm report, South Dakota made a little more milk last month (assuming you like milk and cheese and the udder…
Today’s dreary, drizzly weather brings no relief to South Dakota farmers, who are well behind on planting. Yesterday’s USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service crop progress and…
In 2014, Clayvin Herrera and fellow citizens of the Crow Tribe followed a herd of wapiti (confused white men call them elk) from the Crow Reservation…
That online poll about Arabic numerals in Brookings Register showing the utter ignorance and likely bigotry of lots of respondents appears to be associated, alas, with…
I offer my readers the following profound legal question about the absurd complications our Legislature is using to make citizen petitions unworkable: My petition circulators…
The Aberdeen American News this weekend celebrated our court victory in overturning Initiated Measure 24, Mark Mickelson’s loopholey ban on out-of-state contributions to ballot question…