SDGOP tool Pat Powers has studiously avoided discussing the greatest public health crisis and concomitant economic recession of our time, preferring as usual to merely…
Tag: vaccines
If Republicans are going to keep telling us that they don’t want out-of-staters bringing harmful legislation to South Dakota, then they need to stop bringing…
Representative Lee Qualm is confused. The Republican Majority Leader from Platte tells the press that he’s disappointed that social issues dominate the South Dakota Legislature:…
South Dakota Republicans are determined to impose on our children health education that doesn’t work and deny them public health practices that do work. The…
Brookings neighbor Mark Sternhagen rides a wheelchair because he missed out on a vaccine when he was young and contracted polio. Sternhagen lets misinformed anti-vaccination…
Lora Hubbel doesn’t get to be on the ballot this year, but it seems she’s making a difference in public health. Following her various efforts…
My neighbors at Aberdeen Roncalli rebuff some anti-abortion anti-vaxxers and stir up some complicated moral questions. Aberdeen’s private Catholic school says in my morning paper…
Even Somali immigrants can fall for Trumpy anti-science malarkey… which in this case is causing a measles outbreak in Minnesota: In Minnesota, the vast majority of children under age 2…
The early entrants in the Legislative hopper include a lot of seemingly small provisions. Here’s a Friday snack platter of nibbles around the policy edges: HB…