Brookings remains one of the most sensible towns in South Dakota. Along with providing South Dakota with a model of rational pandemic response, Brookings continues…
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SDSU epidemiologist Dr. Bonny Specker posted a graph yesterday showing the weekly average of new coronavirus cases per day per 100,000 population in the ten…
NPR gets some useful facts about the coroanvirus pandemic from South Dakotans. None come from Governor Kristi Noem. After putting Noem’s Trumpist pandemic denial on…
All those Trumpists in Brookings crying about their city government’s leadership in passing the first citywide mask mandate in South Dakota had better think again.…
The Brookings City Council had the good sense to pass an ordinance last night requiring masks in public places to tackle the surging spread of…
The SDGOP spin blog rarely mentions coronavirus, lest it upset its denialist sponsor Kristi Noem. Republican spinster Pat Powers does utter “coronavirus” in a Tuesday…
A Twitter friend notes that South Dakota figured it was safe to have 460-some-thousand people crowd into Sturgis for a week or so in the…
Brookings K-12 public school students will join their SDSU role models in going to class wearing masks. Brookings is also delaying its first day of…
The award for Best Campaign Photo in a Legislative Race (so far) goes to Louise Snodgrass, candidate for District 7 House: That’s not posing; Snodgrass…
District 7, which is mostly Brookings but includes just enough rural area to let Volga’s Doug Post run, has three-way Republican primary for House. Rep.…