Rural folk are a suspicious lot… or so one may conclude from the 2021 Nebraska Rural and Metro Polls. According to data gathered by the…
Tag: health
Back in July a friend and I debated the “cure worse than the disease” question: does restricting economic activity to control the coronavirus pandemic produce…
In further news from the Not Really Pro-Life Department, Governor Kristi Noem and other Republican governors who have refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable…
The coronavirus collapse has exposed a lot of problems in how we produce food. Another coronavirus-generated problem that will hurt farmers due to the inherent…
Which businesses must stay open during the coronavirus shutdown? How about bicycle shops? With gyms closing due to COVID-19, and a milder spring than years…
On returning from a Thanksgiving holiday in New York City, gubernatorial policy analyst Kennedy Noem mused vaguely on “family, delicious food, new opportunities, and (now…
Vaping is apparently such a burning problem among students that we need a whole town hall on the issue. But “vaping sensors” in the bathroom?…
We can’t even beat Minnesota at fat. MinnPost reports that Minnesota has tied South Dakota with its rising obesity rate: Minnesota’s adult obesity rate is…
The big news in Bob Mercer’s article on the American Cancer Society’s rating of state legislative activity is that Bob Mercer posted an article with…
Nick Lowrey’s new article on South Dakota’s increasing rate of death by liver disease is worth quoting just for his citations of transplant hepatology expert…