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Blog Roll: SD Mostly Political

The South Dakota Standard
Brookings pastor Carl Kline says woke is wonderful. Don’t sleep and ignore pressing problems. Be woke!: For some months now, I woke up at the same time. It may vary by 15 minutes or less. But I can be laying on my side, sound asleep, back to the clock, and all of a sudden wake up, turn to look at the cl…

2023.03.25

Bluestem Prairie
[VIDEO] Minnesota House passes bill to establish North Star State as a ‘trans refuge’ state: A long day of phone interviews and errands. Here's a look at one of the transformative actions in the Minnesota legislature, on a might in which the skies were blazing with the northern lights. T…

2023.03.25

The South Dakota Standard
Kristi Noem differs greatly from George McGovern, but she wants to emulate his rise from obscurity to nominee: George McGovern and Kristi Noem don’t seem to have a lot in common.Yes, both were born in South Dakota, both ran for office and both served in Congress. But other than that, they are two very, very di…

2023.03.24

Bluestem Prairie
Session Daily: Legislation seeks to keep Dakota, Ojibwe languages alive: In the summer of 2021, I enrolled in two classes in the Dakhóta iápi Okhódakičhiye's Dakota Language Summer Institute. The classes were nearly entirely conducted on Zoom, though we did first meet…

2023.03.23

Northern Valley Beacon
What can people in Aberdeen do to get some news?: The most noticeable symptom that something was wrong was that the newspaper featured a front page photo of Governor Ditz (aka Noem) almost everyday. That seemed to be a distraction for the fact tha…

2023.03.23

South DaCola
City of Sioux Falls using firefighters to fill potholes: I am not opposed to different city departments cross training. I have often said that cross training between two departments would be beneficial to taxpayers; With the increased workload, Public Works…

2023.03.23

Northern Valley Beacon
Fired NSU president appointed president of Minnesota State U. Moorhead: Here is the news release from Moorhead: Timothy Downs Named President of Minnesota State University MoorheadThe Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities has named Timothy Dow…

2023.03.23

Bonny's Blog
March 22, 2023: COVID Weekly Data Update: Wastewater Surveillance Monitoring wastewater can help communities detect and prepare for increasing cases of COVID-19 in a timely manner (https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/how-wws-works/index.html#print): Was…

2023.03.23

South DaCola
Does this mean Smithfield’s will close?: I find all this posturing about China kind of ironic considering we allow a Chinese owned packing plant to operate in Sioux Falls and send product to China; This legislation codifies Governor Noem’s E…

2023.03.22

South Dakota News Watch
11 billion-pound mystery: The chemicals South Dakota trains carry: At 6:18 a.m. on Sept. 19, 2015, a defective railroad line built in the early 1900s failed, leading to the derailment of seven tanker cars carrying ethanol near Lesterville, S.D.... The post 11 billion…

2023.03.22

Blog Roll: Greater SD Blogosphere

SleuthSayers
Award-winning or Bestselling? Which would you choose?: As we approach award season time, the old existential question is coming up at hotel bars, dives, and other dubious but cheap places that serve alcohol to bitching and whining authors…If you could be…

2023.03.25

Mark Haugen
Finished: 'Miami Purity' by Vicki Hendricks: I needed this book. It's been a while since I had one knock my socks off, and this one did. I read the book in one sitting, literally, on a recent flight to Tampa. Fortunately, for my seat-mates…

2023.03.25

Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
The Ledge #561: More Home Plays: Just like last week, this episode is primarily based around what I've been listening to in the Ledge home base over the last few days. Some of it is brand new material. Much of it has been old fa…

2023.03.25

LivingNonviolence
The birds are back!: Several weeks ago I shopped for Black Oil Suflower seeds for the bird feeder. The supermarket was out of stock and all they had was a wild bird seed mix. Not my first choice, but I was in a hurry so…

2023.03.24

SleuthSayers
Pulled From The Ether: People ask a lot of questions when they find out someone is a writer. Some show a distinct lack of knowledge about what writing pays. Either the person is chronically unemployed or already has their r…

2023.03.24

Mark Haugen
No cash, no problem: Wifey and I spent last week in Florida. If you like beaches, bikinis, bands and baseball you'd enjoy it. I do and I did.One of the unique (to me) things we encountered was at the Atlanta Braves…

2023.03.23

Native Hope Blog
Water does not reach all Americans with equity: Mni Wiconi translates to “Water is Life.” When called upon to think about something as essential yet basic as water, most don’t give its existence a second thought. Many people associate this life-sus…

2023.03.20

Idle Hands Dep't
Geography Div (oops subsection): Map made in the 19th century about the North American colonies. John Bartholomew was a Scottish cartographer in the XIX century. The map shows what the North American colonies looked like in 1715 alo…

2023.03.20

Idle Hands Dep't
A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div (Bygone days subsection): New video from Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers' latest album Let Time Ride. Don't adjust your screen, Black and White is just that. Joe Mullins on Banjo, Adam McIntosh on guitar, Chris Da…

2023.03.19

Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
The Ledge #560: Home Plays: This is another of those shows that really has no format. It's pretty much a rundown of the music I've been listening to around the house the last couple of weeks. There's some great re…

2023.03.18

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