Norman Woods – Dakota Free Press

I thought Hillary Clinton was flat wrong when she said electing fascist Giorgia Meloni prime minister of Italy would be “certainly a good thing” just…

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Blog Roll: SD Mostly Political

The South Dakota Standard
Do we need a politically charged concept like the “Center for American Exceptionalism” at Black Hills State?: It looks like there’s another leg in the race by Republicans to color our schoolchildren’s views of American history, but first, some background. By denouncing something called “critical race theory,”…

2023.01.16

Bluestem Prairie
ProPublica's Repatriation Project: America’s biggest museums fail to return Native American human remains: At the end of August 2022, CNN's Andy Rose reported in University of North Dakota to return more than 250 boxes of Native American remains and artifacts, school president says: . . .More than 250…

2023.01.16

Bluestem Prairie
MN Farmers Union president: A legislative agenda for Minnesota’s family farmers: Bluestem Prairie has known Minnesota Farmers Union President Gary Wertish and his wife Jeanne, farmers in Renville County, for many years. Here's commentary by Wertish published by the Minnesota…

2023.01.15

The South Dakota Standard
S.D. humorist Dorothy Rosby explains where the term “snowbirds” comes from. She calls it “seasonal envy disorder.”: When the going gets tough, the snowbirds go south. The rest of us stay here and stand our ground. And that’s why we’re wiser, stronger, and more resilient than people in the land of infinite summer. O…

2023.01.15

South DaCola
City of Sioux Falls Engineering Department off 100%+ on cost overrun projections for 6th Street bridge: I understand inflation and cost overruns, but I am not certain how you can be off by 100%? Recently the city had a change order (cost overrun) on the wastewater project for over $500,000 with NO expla…

2023.01.14

Northern Valley Beacon
Did you have yourself a malicious little Christmas?: While we were in the season for celebrating peace on earth and good will to all people, some of our political leaders demonstrated what grotesque, malevolent assholes humankind can be. Texas Gov. Gr…

2023.01.13

Blog of Joe Kirby
Election Reform Makes Sense: The powers that be in sports do a good job of keeping their games up to date and entertaining. Professional baseball periodically tweaks the rules to improve the game. So do NFL team owners. And tenni…

2023.01.12

South DaCola
UPDATE: Augustana closes interfaith room for food storage: UPDATE: I figured once Herseth-Sandlin got wind of this all things would go back to normal; Augustana spokeswoman Jill Wilson confirmed the meeting was canceled, that the students will get their room…

2023.01.12

South Dakota News Watch
Teacher shortage worsens in South Dakota due to politics, low pay and lack of respect: Concern over the future of the teaching profession in South Dakota has led to more aggressive efforts by education officials to train and inspire a new generation of classroom leaders,... The post Tea…

2023.01.11

Bonny's Blog
January 11, 2023: COVID Weekly Data Update: To date, one out of 282 South Dakotans has died with COVID. The number of cases in South Dakota continues to be low but this number does not include positive home tests. There is an overall COVID fa…

2023.01.11

Blog Roll: Greater SD Blogosphere

Idle Hands Dep't
Geography Div ( Get your compass out subsection): Movement of the North Magnetic Pole since 1590. It's slowly moving to Russia.…

2023.01.16

SleuthSayers
Swing a hammer, write a page.: If you’re learning to become a woodworker or a writer, the most important thing is to make a lot of mistakes. This means you’re developing skills, since not making mistakes means you aren’t actually…

2023.01.16

SleuthSayers
Dying Declarations I: I. Famous Lost Words Above the rumble of the Trois-Rivieres – Montréal night train, an agonizing scream rent the dark. Two world-famous criminal experts rushed into the compartment of their secretary,…

2023.01.15

Idle Hands Dep't
A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div ('Nother small town without a train subsection): The Lonesome River Band doing Heyday from their new album of the same name.Sammy Shelor - Banjo, Jesse Smathers - guitar, Adam Miller - mandolin, Mike Hartgrove - Fiddle) and Kameron Keller (bass).…

2023.01.15

Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson
The Ledge #551: 1993: I have to admit that tonight's show made me feel like an old man. Sure, I've done shows devoted to individual years on a regular basis, but I've fully understood that the songs featured…

2023.01.14

LivingNonviolence
Running With The Horses: The chaos in the House of Representatives has both alarmed and amused me (in a weird way) over the last few weeks. Perhaps the old cliche “the inmates are in charge of the asylum” fits rather well. …

2023.01.12

The Poetry of Barry G. Wick
Last Poem: Last PoemWill someone who writesThe last poemPlease turn off the words.Barry G. Wick…

2023.01.11

Mark Haugen
Not earth-shattering, but I hit a little milestone: I recently went over the 1,000 books sold mark on smashwords.com and feel pretty good about it. Sure, James Patterson sneezes and sells 1,000 books, but, on the other hand, I write my own books. That…

2023.01.11

Native Hope Blog
January is Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month: January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, created to raise awareness of sex slavery and human trafficking worldwide. Trafficking is a critical problem that all of us at Native Hope are passionate…

2023.01.10

Native Hope Blog
The Feather: A symbol of high honor: In Native American culture it is believed that all things possess an inherent virtue, power, and wisdom. The feather, for example, is a powerful symbol that signifies honor and a connection between th…

2023.01.10

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