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…
Category: South Dakota
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With far less discussion than provoked by its bar-hookah-gym closure, the Rapid City Common Council last night repealed its idiosyncratic 2004 moratorium on telephonic and…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…
During yesterday’s on-mic failure of leadership, Donald Trump asserted that he’s not hearing anything about people who need coronavirus testing being unable to access that…
In my coverage of the SD Voice v. Noem II trial, I noted that it is difficult for me to report accurately when I’m a…
South Dakota’s beleaguered beekeepers managed to bounce back last year. According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, South Dakota produced 19.4 million pounds of…