The eight Indiana University students who lost their lawsuit against their school’s coronavirus vaccine mandate appealed to the United States Supreme Court, shouting about their right…
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The right-wing extremists Rapid City voters elected to their school board this summer are showing their political pro-pandemic disregard for facts and duty. At Monday’s…
The Centers for Disease Control yesterday revised its coronavirus guidance, telling Americans who’ve been fully vaccinated against covid-19 that they can pretty much go without…
Yesterday the Legislature sent to the Governor’s desk Senate Bill 3, an extension of the Department of Health’s emergency pandemic-prevention enforcement powers for another year.…
I messed up again. Yesterday I wrote that Senator Al Novstrup had shown some civic responsibility in following the Board of Regents rules for wearing…
Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) has a lot of predictable right-wing horsehockey in his bucket of bills. But he also has a couple of bills…
Nurse Erin Tobin beat anti-vaxxer Republican House Majority Leader Lee Qualm in last year’s District 21 Senate GOP primary. She vowed last November to wear…
A couple months ago, Sanford Hospital CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft informed his employees that he’d recovered from covid-19 and thus didn’t have to wear a mask:…
One of the first things President Joe Biden will do to fight coronavirus is require masks in federal buildings and on federal property, because, well,…
The two biggest stories of 2020 in South Dakota and across our nation were the pandemics of coronavirus and Trumpism. Both pandemics threaten the survival…