Opinion
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Our Voice: Lori Schultz’s legacy is written in the ledgers
When Lori Schultz first stepped into the Brookings County Courthouse in 1989, she wasn’t looking for a career — she was just answering a neighborly plea for help during a lunch hour. But as she retires as finance officer, with her last day being April 3, Schultz leaves behind a…
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This is my Column: This Easter Sunday, like every Easter Sunday
It was always our most solemn of holidays.
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Column: Candidates who overlook South Dakota’s newspapers put their campaigns at risk
Editor’s note: This column was written for the South Dakota News Media Association by Gary L. Wood, owner and publisher of Yankton Media, Inc., which publishes the YanktonPress & Dakotan and Vermillion Plain Talk.
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Column: No Kings Day protests tap hope for democracy
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.
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Commentary: For farmers in South Dakota, war in Iran worse than it might seem
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.
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Column: We pay a high price when the president violates the war clause
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…
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Our Voice: ‘Twisters on Ice’ — let’s fill Larson Ice Center this weekend
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.
