In 2016, the South Dakota Legislature passed 2016 Senate Bill 129 requiring one hour of training in suicide awareness and prevention to obtain or renew…
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Contradicting years of disinclusive politics, culture, and policy, the Noem Administration has commissioned yet another marketing scheme, this one attempting to address South Dakota’s high…
Last month, South Dakota used Uncle Sam’s money to join the rest of the United States in adopting 988 at the crisis hotline for mental health, substance…
South Dakotans got back to killing themselves at a record rate last year. South Dakota Suicide Prevention reports 198 South Dakotans committed suicide in 2021, beating…
Our friend Kevin Woster has been having a hard time. A mysterious and persistent illness has kept the journalist and avid outdoorsman out of his…
In March, Governor Kristi Noem claimed that “because we balanced fighting the virus with maintaining social, economic, and mental health, South Dakota didn’t see an…
About 44,000 Americans died from gunshots in 2020… so I guess guns are only 9% as dangerous to Americans as coronavirus, and if we don’t…
Dr. Specker also summarizes South Dakota’s flu situation—you know, flu, that disease some Republicans have burbled about as the equivalent of coronavirus in order to…
Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) and most of the Democratic caucus, plus two politically incautious Republican sponsors, offer Senate Concurrent Resolution 603, this reasonable, footnoted…
I just heard SDPB’s Lori Walsh remark on air that when three state officials show up to her studio to talk about preventing suicide, we…