My mom went shopping the other day. She asked her cashier, a younger gal, if she was worried about getting coronavirus from all the people…
Category: South Dakota
7,916 South Dakotans filed for unemployment last week. That’s up from the somewhat normal level of 190 the week ending March 14, 1,761 the week…
Que Pasa Sioux Falls, a non-profit media outfit focusing on “enriching, educating, and empowering” the Latino community, is unhappy with Smithfield Foods’ failure to protect…
Boys State is canceled, Night Ranger is postponed to October 1, Ducks Unlimited is putting off its April 27 dinner… …but in a closure that…
South Dakota reported its first case of coronavirus on March 10. 29 days later, South Dakota remains one of five states whose governor has not…
Former legislator Frank Kloucek offers this eulogy for his former Capitol colleague, four-term District 15 Representative Patrick Allan Kirschman, who died on March 19 in…
You can tell a leader is running out of ideas when she tells everyone to pray: [Governor Kristi] Noem also proclaimed Wednesday a day of…
Rapid City shut down bars, restaurants, and other coronavirus-transmission locations on March 27. Sioux Falls mayor Paul TenHaken has expressed disapproval of patrons gathering at…
The state Board of Education Standards spent time yesterday discussing how to support our public schools as they perform a near-instant teaching revolution amidst a…
Maybe farmers should look at pivoting to local production of edible crops. The bottom is dropping out of the already glum ethanol-corn market: The per-gallon…