Another black mark of Trumpism was erased yesterday as the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service issued its Agricultural Labor Survey. Last September, the Sonny Perdue…
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Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) isn’t just trying to suppress absentee voting; he’s also trying to oppress our poor election workers. Facing a surge of absentee…
I see two bills so far in which the Legislature is directly addressing coronavirus. Last week I mentioned Senate Bill 3, which would extend an…
Amazon is indeed building a new warehouse in Sioux Falls, promising to hire 1,000 workers and giving our elected leaders something to brag about: Sen. John…
In normal times, if seventeen residents of one nursing home died in less than a month from some preventable malady—botulism, food poisoning, whatever—we’d be freaking…
Don’t forget, Dusty: if you can’t get your Congressional colleagues to agree on restoring federal coronavirus relief measures, you’re killing more Americans: The lack of…
Sure, choose not to lock down in response to coroanvirus, and you’ll have lower unemployment. You’ll also have more sickness and death: Five of the…
Our wise vote to raise and index the minimum wage in 2014 will give our lowest-earning workers a little more coronavirus stimulus in 2021. According…
Donald Trump’s example notwithstanding, acting in your self-interest isn’t always bad. For instance, if you’re still trying to figure out for whom to cast your…