The coronavirus pandemic has killed 2.21 out of every 1,000 South Dakotans and 1.71 out of every 1,000 Americans (and let’s stop that number from climbing: wear…
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In South Dakota, 48% of registered voters identify as Republican while only 27% identify as Democratic. Nationally, sanity has a greater foothold. Gallup reports that…
President Joe Biden’s plan to replace every lead water pipe in the country with infrastructure that won’t damage children’s brains responds to Americans’ greatest environmental concern. A…
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota posts an article worth reading that contends that President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 line about a rising tide lifting…
While Presidential aspirant and part-time Governor Kristi Noem says people who aren’t American don’t deserve her help, former President George W. Bush , who is…
The sight of a white-supremacist (and historically fallacious) “Three Percenter” flag in one of my neighbors’ yards here in Aberdeen got me reading about how…
President Joe Biden just wants to study the Supreme Court and possible reforms. U.S. House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler of New York and U.S. Senator…
We don’t produce much oil here in South Dakota—the total crude pumped out of Harding, Fall River, and Custer counties in 2020 was less than…
A week after Congressman Dusty Johnson set a good example by GETTING HIS CORONAVIRUS SHOT!!!, the FDA and CDC are recommending we hold off on administering any…
Do the right thing. Help other people. That’s not headline news for a public servant; that’s every day’s work. But after four years of the…