We were driving back into northwest Aberdeen Sunday from our family walk out at Mina Lake when my wife noticed the empty parking lot at…
Category: South Dakota
I’m listening to Tourism Secretary Jim Hagen on South Dakota Public Radio this noon trying to strike a balance between his appointed mission to make…
Governor Kristi Noem issued two executive orders Monday. One does things to address the coronavirus pandemic; the other does nothing. Executive Order 2020-07 tackles covid-19…
In her coronavirus press briefing today, Governor Kristi Noem said “up to 30 percent of our population could get sick. That is literally tens of…
Don’t expect Aberdeen Mayor Travis Schaunaman to follow the lead of Mayor Steve Allender in shutting down Rapid City’s bars and other recreational businesses. He’s…
With far less discussion than provoked by its bar-hookah-gym closure, the Rapid City Common Council last night repealed its idiosyncratic 2004 moratorium on telephonic and…
For mayors and governors who are unsure about their statutory authority to shut down bars and restaurants because of the few knuckleheads who still can’t…
In an article leading with the fact that Governor Kristi Noem put her deputy chief of staff Beth Hollatz on unpaid leave starting February 3…
I would like to be proven wrong about how long we’re going to have to combat coronavirus with drastic isolation. I would like to think…
Mayor Paul TenHaken expressed disapproval last night of the patrons he saw packing the parking lots of a couple Sioux Falls bars last night: I…