On Tuesday, August 7, Pennington County Director of Health and Human Services Barry Tice brought before his county commissioners the following proposal to apply for…
Tag: mental health
Earlier this month I posted CDC maps and data showing that South Dakota has twice the suicide rate of New York. Republican gubernatorial candidate Kristi…
The Legislature’s Executive Board meets this afternoon in Pierre from 1:30 to 4:15 Central. Among the items of interest: 1. Rep. Mary Duvall (R-24/Pierre) would…
The Legislature may understand ranked choice voting, but that doesn’t mean they follow it. The Legislative Executive Board this afternoon passed over the top vote-getting…
Tomorrow isn’t just Veto Day in Pierre; at least four committees will meet: GOAC will convene at 8:30 a.m. in Room 362, before the scheduled Senate session…
Donald Trump said Sunday’s mass murder in Texas “isn’t a guns situation” but “is a mental health problem….” The Texas killer had mental health issues…
In a new Atlantic article on the maladaptation of the smartphone generation, psychology professor Jean M. Twenge says a decline in independent behaviors (which she…
South Dakota’s 2011 law forcing women to sit through anti-abortion propaganda before aborting a pregnancy just took another scientific hit. A new study in JAMA Psychiatry finds that abortion…