One negative consequence of the tribes’ strong measures against coronavirus: potentially greater Census undercount. Rural areas that depend on Census workers to stop by in…
Month: May 2020
Governor Kristi Noem hasn’t actually said that she emptily threatened to sue the Cheyenne River Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes over their coronavirus checkpoints because…
KOTA-TV runs a story about how another toothless resolution is a great step by Senator Mike Rounds to mandate country-of-origin labeling on meat: Earlier this…
Donald Trump makes me sick—that’s what we should be hearing between coughs from workers at protein processing plants that Trump ordered reopened, coronavirus be damned.…
The first place I ever got out of my car and set foot on the ground in Harding County smelled of death. Three half-stripped, sharp-toothed…
I’m out staying away from people in the Black Hills. If you’re planning to take a break this weekend (and you know, we could all…
Mike Bockorny writes a lengthy column in the Aberdeen American News explaining how the Aberdeen Development Corporation has had to work really hard to save…
Sometimes a tiny minority of complainers get all the press. Don’t sweat the news about radical cranks screaming at shopkeepers for asking that they wear…
Cows don’t notice coronavirus; they just keep on making milk (and, in SAb Biotherapeutics’ lab, maybe supercow antibodies to help us beat the pandemic). Here…
Amidst a public health crisis and an economic recession, one would expect that government would increase its spending to keep people and the economy healthy.…