In various peaceful public demonstrations here in Aberdeen, including the most recent march against gun violence organized by our Aberdeen High School Democrats, I have…
Tag: health
In this week’s anti-commercial message, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs is trying to put the Mitchell Taco John’s out of business. Testifying Monday in Senate…
Quick statistical note, for those of you setting policy priorities based on actual data (from 2007 through 2016): Number of South Dakotans killed by opioid…
While the Trump Administration tries to figure out what a national health emergency really means, South Dakota’s leaders should perhaps consider declaring a state health…
One chart tucked in the Government Operations and Audit Committee dossier for today shows that a large majority of state employees don’t like going to…
Keep it zipped, Sturgis Rally-goers: you’re a lot more likely to get gonorrhea or chlamydia from your new South Dakota friends than you are to…
South Dakota KIDS COUNT fills its Twitter stream with interesting data. Today’s chart shows that we’re doing a relatively poor job of persuading teenagers not…
The latest Dakota Free Press Podcast is ready for your earbuds! In Episode #15, we talk to Pierre political activist Roxanne Weber, organizer of protests,…
My neighbor Joe Berns offered a solid critique last week of the Koch Brothers’ flunkies’ claims that American capitalism works great for everybody. New Harvard…
My gross moment of the weekend was reading this line over breakfast: “What people don’t realize about placenta is it’s just like any other meat,”…