Poet, essayist, novelist, farmer, and philosopher Wendell Berry died yesterday at 92. With his death, America loses one of its deepest, most deliberate thinkers, a…
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Independent journalism and South Dakota’s collective intelligence are poorer this week, having lost smart writer Tom Lawrence: Tom passed on August 21, a few months…
Stanford Mark Adelstein died Monday, nine days shy of his 95th birthday. Adelstein represented Rapid City’s District 32 in the South Dakota Legislature—two terms in…
They laugh ‘cause they know they’re untouchable Not because what I said was wrong. Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies,…
Randy Seiler has died Monday night after last week’s heart attack: Seiler was appointed as the 41st United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota…
Former legislator Frank Kloucek offers this eulogy for his former Capitol colleague, four-term District 15 Representative Patrick Allan Kirschman, who died on March 19 in…
I just heard that civil rights champion Reverend Joseph Lowery died yesterday at age 98. We can celebrate this great man for many reasons. I…
Brigman Roger Cornelius, my friend, friend of the blog, has died. Cancer got him after a rich and interesting life of speaking out and working…
Former University of Sioux Falls professor, state legislator and Sioux Falls city councilman Kermit Staggers died Wednesday night. A man who server with Staggers in…
President George H.W. Bush died last night at age 94. Lower your flags, please. NPR just had Christopher Buckley, who wrote speeches for Bush during his…