Opinion

Another “No Kings” day has come and gone. It was amazing to see our Brookings community turn out for this event the way they did.

Iran is more than 6,000 miles from the U.S., but South Dakota farmers, as all American ag producers, are intimately feeling the catastrophic potential of our current war with that rogue Mideast nation.

The framers’ wisdom in vesting constitutional control over the war power—its “commencement, continuation and conclusion”—in Congress, as James Madison said, not in the hands of the president, has struck Americans squarely in the face in light of President Donald Trump’s fly-by-the- seat of his pants conduct of his war in…

In South Dakota, we know better than anyone that spring is less of a season and more of a meteorological roll of the dice. But this weekend, the Larson Ice Center is proving that while we can’t control the weather, we can certainly find the beauty in it.

Americans’ deep interest in our nation’s history, super-charged by the fast-approaching 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, has brought renewed focus on the early controversies, personalities and events that launched the American Revolution. The founders, themselves, were quick to identify intellectual influences that shook the tectonic plates of history…

That slurping sound you heard in early March was coming from Pierre. It was lawmakers drinking the Kool-Aid of property tax relief, trying as hard as they could to convince themselves that the best way to provide tax relief for homeowners was through higher sales taxes for everyone.

Here we go again!