Donald Trump’s personal spite leads to more harm for South Dakota and the rest of rural America, as his toady Ag Secretary cancels the Rural…
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Governor Larry Rhoden has often touted Trump policies as transforming rural health care. A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Associated Press…
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…
In both Minnesota and Nebraska, I’ve often had the impression that small towns look bigger than towns of similar population in South Dakota. Little towns…
The millions of consolation dollars that Republicans are throwing at South Dakota in the guise of the Rural Health Transformation Program won’t make up for…
Governor Larry Rhoden yesterday announced that the federal Department of Hellth is giving South Dakota $189.4 million to subsidize rural health care. The money comes…
Here, Spencer, take this mirror… In the January 17 House State Affairs hearing on 2025 House Joint Resolution 5003, now Amendment L on the 2026…
In April, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s oversight, terminated its Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, a program approved…
Sioux Falls-based Paulsen Marketing is contributing to discussion of rural policy with a polling project it calls “Rural97“. That title refers to the fact, cited…
Historical impersonator John “Chuck” Chalberg wrote in September 2002 that “Public schools have done ‘more harm than good.’” Chalberg cited H.L. Mecnken’s complaints about public…