Alas, Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota opted not to rock the boat and succumbed to Governor Kristi Noem’s fatwa on refugees from Afghanistan: Lutheran…
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I give South Dakota government a hard time for its narrow business-über-alles mindset. Our short-sighted willingness to do anything for a buck leads to air and…
How dumb are South Dakotans? When it comes to preventing a pandemic, pretty dumb. The South Dakota State University School of American and Global Studies…
Welcome to America, says most of America… but not South Dakota! Huffington Post maps the states that have declared their doors open to Afghan refugees,…
You’d think South Dakota’s chief of public health would know that smoking is bad for everyone’s health. But with coronavirus surging again in South Dakota,…
I’m working on interpreting the data files the United States Census Bureau has made available to legislators and the public for redrawing the maps for…
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee gets to hear from the Department of Corrections on Wednesday on what it’s doing to fill its growing empty positions. According…
According to the 2020 population data released by the United States Census Bureau Thursday, the last decade saw exactly half of South Dakota’s counties gain…
Rapid City doctor Kevin Weiland thought about running for Congress in 2010, the year Kristi Noem won her first statewide election. Now Dr. Weiland is…
I’d been thinking about Stephen King’s plague novel The Stand since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. In that novel, a flu virus engineered (unlike the real…