Twelve days ago, when Governor Kristi Noem said “up to 30 percent of our population could get sick” with coronavirus, I calculated from CDC figures…
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I have never spent a nickel in either the Heartland Casino or the Lafayette Casino in Aberdeen. I don’t know who owns them. I couldn’t…
Our coronavirus relief checks from the $2.2-trillion emergency legislation passed last week by Congress will take a little time to arrive. Folks who’ve filed taxes…
Aberdeen’s Internet providers pop into my morning paper to assure us they can handle all of our coronavirus teleconferencing and studying and plague-bunker Netflixing. Vast…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that 5,823,917 Americans filed for unemployment insurance last week. That’s nearly twice the 2,903,757 who filed the week…
If the thought of catching coronavirus won’t make you stay home, how about a $500 fine and 30 days in jail? That’s what Aberdeen will…
Governor Kristi Noem revised her projection of the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, saying today that South Dakota will see the worst of it come…
Coronavirus won’t kill everybody, but it could put everyone in Keystone, including city government, out of business: …the sales-tax revenues from food and drink, lodging…
Sioux Falls is closing playgrounds, park benches, and other park facilities where lots of people may gather and increase the spread of the coronavirus: The…
So what passed and what didn’t during our Legislature’s historic online Veto-Plus Day? Nine bills passed; three bills failed. The House rightly killed the Governor’s…