Governor Kristi Noem gave the Legislature three bills to consider on Veto Day Monday. She stamped her most bothersome veto Friday on House Bill 1223,…
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Despite our statewide commitment to a superspreader tourist event where sex trafficking thrives, South Dakota Republicans continue to pose as great protectors of women and…
Among the numerous restrictions legislators are proposing to whittle away at Initiated Measure 26, the medical marijuana measure that South Dakota voters passed in 2020,…
Last winter, South Dakota was leading the nation in getting the new coronavirus vaccines. We quickly fell away from that admirable leadership. Now as we…
Whether or not you call child care infrastructure, providing working parents with safe, nurturing, and affordable child care is vital to our economy. If parents…
But who really cares about making kids’ lives better? It’s not radical vaccine politicizers and anti-immigrant school boards (translation: Republicans). It’s Democrats who get things done for…
Dipstick T-pist tool and Noem appointee Dan Bucheli finally says something useful from his perch at the Department of Health: coronavirus vaccines for 12–15 year…
If we lived in Canada, our daughter could have coronavirus vaccine by now: Health Canada says the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is now safe to give…
What is a childcare desert? 43% of South Dakota. According to the state infrastructure fact sheets published by the White House last month, 43% of…
Full-time campaigner and part-time Governor Kristi Noem’s Twitter feed is a compendium of contradictions. Yesterday, the self-conceived next President of the United States declared that…