Coronavirus has posed greater health risks to older people than to younger people. According to the CDC, coronavirus hasn’t killed anyone under 30 in our…
Month: March 2021
Five years ago when we officially removed the name of white colonial Indian massacre-er General William S. Harney from South Dakota’s highest peak and replaced it…
I worry that the Department of Social Services may be about to lose a really good lawyer. Last May, I reported that the Department of…
The St. Louis Federal Reserve summarizes new research on government action, state capacity, and the spread of coronavirus. The research finds that bigger, more robust…
In this week’s White-Mansplaining file, Senator Marion Michael Rounds tells us why he thinks Congresswoman Deb Haaland, member of the Laguna Pueblo and now confirmed…
Governor Kristi Noem made a big show of rejecting some federal unemployment assistance last summer, complete with misrepresentations of data. Of course, she also misrepresented…
Hospital Lobby May Launch Medicaid Expansion Petition in April; Competing Petitions Expect Coalition
In the undercard to PBS NewsHour’s report on the effort to reverse South Dakota’s resistance to Medicaid expansion, Dan Bush suggests the hospital lobby may launch…
I am pleased to see that Congressman Dusty Johnson feels criminals should lose their federal pensions. South Dakota’s sole voice in the United States House…
I’m not the only one who recognizes that Kristi Noem is a boring public speaker. In a richly detailed account of South Dakota’s succumbing to…
I sense an inconsistency in Governor Kristi Noem’s approach to school sports. In her ballyhooed homeschool anarchy act (Senate Bill 177), Governor Noem authorizes parents to…