South Dakota News Watch offers a useful article about concerns that pandemic isolation and stress may have increased child abuse in South Dakota, just as…
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Full disclosure: my household receives a pastor’s salary and housing allowance. The Democratic caucus usually writes much better bills than its Republican counterparts in the…
Earlier this month, I explained the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s standards of care for transgender youth that render Rep. Fred Deutsch’s (R-4/Florence) proposed…
Bart Pfankuch’s lengthy multi-part exposé of child abuse at the Aurora Plains Academy in Plankinton is making serious waves, drawing from Governor Noem promises to…
A Rapid City woman faces felony child abuse charges for leaving her child in her vehicle in the heat for two hours: Brendyn Medina is the…
In yesterday’s bad headlines, KELO-TV slugs Bob Mercer’s report on the narrow defeat of House Bill 1230, Rep. Erin Healy’s bill to add clergy to…
(The South Dakota Legislature, with its continual attacks on LGBT children, creates an environment that is injurious to children’s welfare and threatens children with substantial…
Another teacher from the reservation gets the Pine Ridge youth suicide epidemic into the national press. Joe Flood follows Dominique Fenton in writing up the nine Lakota…
Asked to name the best thing to come out of the 2015 Legislature, Rep. Peggy Gibson (D-22/Huron) points to the reinstatement of the Jolene’s Law Task…
Whatever political game the Republican caucus is playing with sexual abuse of children, Governor Dennis Daugaard has said, knock it off. Yesterday Governor Daugaard announced…