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,…
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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…
While part-time Governor Kristi Noem spent Thursday on her high horse squawking about critical race theory and abortion and then riding said horse around the Cheyenne…
Things are tough all over rural America for nursing homes recovering from losing lots of paying customers to coronavirus and now struggling even more than…
Governing puts American Rescue Plan Act dollars (you know, the last batch of pandemic recovery cash President Biden and the new, better Congress put together last…
The Legislative Research Council has tallied up all the federal dollars that have kept South Dakota afloat during the coronavirus pandemic and recession. At yesterday’s…