My suggestion that Indian Health Service place an anti-suicide treatment facility in Kadoka rather than Rapid City drew criticism from readers who thought that site, while geographically central to…
Tag: veterans
At least Rep. Fred Deutsch isn’t slacking off. In a move perhaps intended to ameliorate some veterans’ concerns about last year’s expansion of eligibility for veterans’…
Concern for history and brand equity keeps the state Board on Geographic Names from replacing the name of a colonialist Indian killer William Hareny on South Dakota’s highest peak with a…
On the 239th anniversary of our country’s Declaration of Independence, I find South Dakota’s Bureau of Human Resources flying the flag and stating that our state government proudly employs…
South Dakota Veterans for Veterans failed to gather enough signatures to refer House Bill 1179—South Dakota’s new, expanded definition of “veteran”—to a public vote. Unable to submit…
An Aberdeen veteran petitioning to refer the Legislature’s expanded definition of “veteran” to a public vote were expelled from Wylie Park by the city parks supervisor Saturday.…
The lesson this spring: don’t pass legislation that torques off folks in Aberdeen. A group calling itself South Dakota Veterans for Veterans has filed the papers necessary…
Governor Dennis Daugaard attended the signing ceremony for the new Chinese-government-run Confucius Institute on the Northern State campus here in Aberdeen yesterday. Celebrating the Confucius Institute’s teaching…