Doug Ekeren, president of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, says that a modified model predicts a peak of about 132,000 to 133,000 South Dakotans…
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The Governor’s Office of Economic Development thought three weeks ago that its SB 192 tranche of $10.5 million in Small Business Economic Disaster Relief loans…
Coronavirus won’t kill everybody, but it could put everyone in Keystone, including city government, out of business: …the sales-tax revenues from food and drink, lodging…
The Game Fish and Parks Q&A sheet on the impact of coronavirus on outdoor operations includes a note that South Dakota is not closing its…
I’m listening to Tourism Secretary Jim Hagen on South Dakota Public Radio this noon trying to strike a balance between his appointed mission to make…
Think about your local school district. Can you think of any good programs, classroom or extracurricular, that your school has had to scale back or…
Bob Mercer digs through the state’s ledger and finds we’ve paid over two million dollars to tote our float through the last ten Macy’s Thanksgiving…
Bob Mercer reports that some West River ranchers want to fully revert the mostly abandoned and de-railed state Rapid-to-Kadoka right-of-way from any socialist use to…
Brooke Jarvis of The New Yorker writes of the ongoing contradictions of our monument-strewn Black Hills. She focuses on the relationship of the Crazy Horse…
Vulgarity and objectification of women are a big part of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: So one would think that having public discourse dominated by the…