I’d been thinking about Stephen King’s plague novel The Stand since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. In that novel, a flu virus engineered (unlike the real…
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Senator Mike Rounds doesn’t think he’s reached a “saturation level” in promoting coronavirus vaccines. Asked about vaccinated Senator Lindsey Graham’s covid diagnosis, Senator Rounds set…
The coronavirus pandemic has delayed Dairy Queen’s Miracle Treat Day, the ice creamery’s fundraiser for Children’s Miracle Network, from July to October. The greatest Dairy…
While the Next Biggest Thing our Governor seems capable of thinking up for economic development is to quarter-heartedly fund a shooting range where West River folks…
The Corrections crunch isn’t unique to the state prison system. Even with those darned unemployment benefits cut back, better starting pay than the state prisons,…
The Missouri Valley Football Conference commissioner Patty Viverito is pushing conference teams to reach an 85% vaccination rate. To its embarassment, South Dakota State University’s…
A week and a half ago, Governor Kristi Noem told disgruntled state penitentiary workers that she can’t raise their pay with one-time money (“…salary policy has…
States that ended pandemic unemployment benefits in June (which seems all the more foolish now in August as we watch coronavirus go fourth wave) saw…
The Department of Game, Fish, and Parks maintains several shooting ranges for firearms and archer around the state. Now GF&P wants to build a 400-acre…