Maybe the walkout was a couple days early…. Maybe four dozen students at Aberdeen Central—out of a student body of about 1,200—participated in the nationwide…
Tag: youth
In a new Atlantic article on the maladaptation of the smartphone generation, psychology professor Jean M. Twenge says a decline in independent behaviors (which she…
South Dakota KIDS COUNT fills its Twitter stream with interesting data. Today’s chart shows that we’re doing a relatively poor job of persuading teenagers not…
KELO-TV mistags a story on youth employment. “Teen Summer Jobs Are Vanishing,” KELO writes over five sentences excerpted from a much more detailed AP story,…
Hey! David Novstrup! Did you read your Governing update this morning? I opened my copy and thought I’d found one little shred of data that might,…
Governor Dennis Daugaard scratched his veto itch today. Stricken by the Governor’s pen today were these five bills: House Bill 1156: This bill would have allowed individuals with…
Hey, Teen Republicans! HS Democrats! Want a project to work on together? Read on…. Out of 388 bills, Governor Daugaard has signed 39 bills, and another 14 are…
Rep. Paula Hawks came to town last night to talk about her run for U.S. House. The local press noticed two big things that I…
Blogger Ken Santema maintains a dubious documentarian agnosticism about the moral merits of the now monthly hate fests taking place to foment false fears of immigrants…
A nickel last time, a dime this time: the Department of Labor has announced that South Dakota’s minimum wage will rise to $8.65 an hour on January…