Included in both of Governor Kristi Noem’s now somewhat watered-down bills purporting to fight “critical race theory” and “political indoctrination” is one thought Noem deems “divisive”…
Posts tagged as “equality”
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota posts an article worth reading that contends that President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 line about a rising tide lifting…
Last week I mentioned the UC-Berkeley Othering and Belonging Institute’s analysis showing South Dakota to have the worst coronavirus pandemic response in the nation. (Improve…
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…
The Obama-Biden Administration extended numerous protections against discrimination to LGBT Americans. The Trump-Pence Administration has repealed most of those protections, including provisions for equitable treatment…
Brookings is trying to counter the bad press our yahoo Legislature and milquetoast Governor* are bringing to our state. On Tuesday, the Brookings City Council,…
Vigorous commenter Debbo forwards Vox‘s summary of this Harvard Law Review note offering a radical plan to amend the Constitution to make our federal representation…
The University of Texas Board of Regents will meet today and probably name Heather Wilson the next president of the University of Texas at El…
Brookings just keeps getting better. After years of leading South Dakota on the Human Rights Commission’s Municipal Equality Index, Brookings has now achieved the top…
On August 17, 1858, in Lewistown, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln spoke on slavery, liberty, and his Senate campaign against Stephen Douglas for two and a half…