Why is South Dakota’s suicide rate double that of New York? According to new research from the Boston University School of Public Health, the youth…
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Senate State Affairs takes up four bills this morning at 10:00. Let’s take a look at what the conservative majority should do with these items:…
I think often about my neighbor Larry Spitzer’s question, back during Aberdeen’s great library debate, about why South Dakota would want to be like Minnesota.…
The Legislature’s interim committee on access to mental health services decided yesterday to propose expanding 2-1-1 phone service statewide to help prevent suicide, domestic abuse, and…
Donald Trump has failed to make America great enough to make more Americans think life is worth living here. Life expectancy in the greatest nation…
I hate thinking of September in August, but, recognizing South Dakota’s rising suicide rate, Governor Dennis Daugaard is urging South Dakotans to make September Suicide…
Following my post Tuesday on South Dakota’s rising suicide rate, an eager reader helps me find the updated suicide surveillance report with 2017 data on the…
Our lower-than-national-average income inequality isn’t tempering some folks’ perception of South Dakota as a hard place to live. More of our neighbors killed themselves last…
Earlier this month I posted CDC maps and data showing that South Dakota has twice the suicide rate of New York. Republican gubernatorial candidate Kristi…
KELO TV mentions that South Dakota had a record number of suicides in 2017. The state is using federal grant money to promote a number…