The pork industry can’t afford to wait for workers to “Call me when you’re an American.” The National Pork Producers Council says that if we…
Tag: rural
One of my Aberdeen neighbors who voted for a Manhattan billionaire for President is Tweet-complaining that the Biden Administration is “out of touch with rural…
The correspondent who got me thinking about how safe it is for folks to move to South Dakota offers some armchair sociology comparing the quality of…
Following the widespread hasty reopening of the economy, rural America has been posting worse coronavirus summer numbers right along with its urban cousins. The Daily…
I remain fascinated at the fact that, so far in South Dakota, the biggest problem our hospitals have faced is not too many patients but…
As they open South Dakota News Watch‘s analysis of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on South Dakota’s small towns, Nick Lowrey and Bart Pfankuch find…
I like hot dogs, but you can’t pay me or most Americans enough to go work at Smithfield Foods to make them. Thus, Big Meat…
If coronavirus doesn’t kill you, Donald Trump’s strangulation of the U.S Postal Service could! Just ask West River blogger John Tsitrian, who told Marketplace about…
I’m listening to Dr. Jon Schaff on SDPB Radio talk about how Trump’s executive order allowing state and local governments to by default block refugee…
South Dakota News Watch reports on the challenges rural school districts face in adequately educating their dwindling youth populations. Nutshell: decreased funding, teacher turnover, students…