Back in July a friend and I debated the “cure worse than the disease” question: does restricting economic activity to control the coronavirus pandemic produce…
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Donald Trump told us that “on November 4, you won’t hear about [covid-19] anymore.” While the vote count did dominate the news yesterday, coronavirus did…
The carnage of Republicans slaughtering Democrats went all the way down the ballot to this year’s county races. 31 of our 66 counties had races…
Minnehaha County is still counting ballots, but which of the remaining 65 counties in South Dakota are the most passionately Trumpistani, and which counties showed…
I’m guessing 43,000 ballots remain to be counted in Minnehaha County, the only jurisdiction in South Dakota not reporting complete results as of 7:30 this…
South Dakota Democrats suffered another devastating election, as Republicans dominated every called or callable race on the 2020 general election ballot. Note: our morning-after reporting…
Sure, choose not to lock down in response to coroanvirus, and you’ll have lower unemployment. You’ll also have more sickness and death: Five of the…
The continuing surge in coronavirus is forcing Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls to double up patients in ICU rooms: Chief Medical Officer Mike Elliott…
Monday’s voter registration count shows that, over the past year, 30,889 more people have signed up to vote. That’s a 12-month increase of 5.64%, to…
On September 12, around 10:30 p.m., when Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg called 911 to report his vehicular crash, he told the dispatcher that he had…