It appears South Dakota’s battle against invasive zebra mussels in its waterways is turning a bit accusatory.
In 2022, Monae Johnson was elected South Dakota’s secretary of state. Since then, she has earned another title: Queen of Irony.
It began the way most miracles do: by accident or the hand of God, take your pick. It might have been the weather, at least partly. For December, the day had been almost balmy and warm. You know, sweaters instead of heavy coats. No mittens in sight.
Two things are true: One, former President Donald Trump’s polling — nationally, in key swing states, and in the first-voting state of Iowa — has never been better. And two, Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed by the Biden Justice Department to prosecute Trump, is taking self-described “extraordinary” measures in a rush to put Trump on trial before the 2024 presidential election.
There was a time, long ago, when it was easy to pinpoint the beginning and end of the “Christmas season.”
It’s gotten to where it’s almost axiomatic in American politics: Show me somebody who gets TV face-time railing against others’ sexual sins, and I’ll show you somebody hiding naughty secrets.
There is a subterranean conversation going on in the United States that every one of the country’s 500 or so political insiders is conducting, but that none of the rest of the 332 million Americans has heard.
I have a good friend who is working in many ways to increase communication and understanding, especially on matters of race. She was recently interviewed by one of my students in a class titled “Peace and Justice.”
Our veterans have shouldered the burden of our defense. They have displayed extraordinary strength and resilience in the face of adversity to protect the freedoms that we enjoy as Americans.
Read what your neighbors are thinking — and writing — about.
Why would former Rep. Liz Cheney run for president? Is she nuts? Is she trying to sell a book? Why would a Republican whose last election was losing a state primary by 37 points think she should now seek the highest office in the land? Why would a politician hated by most of her own party and used by the other party simply to attack her colleagues think she could bring 80 million Americans together behind a Cheney candidacy?
On his way to becoming a Hollywood superstar, Bill Murray demonstrated great skill at delivering rants that blurred the line between lunacy and pathos.
NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — The snow, soft and silent, fell overnight, leaving this old ski village covered in white, recasting the landscape, altering the view, adjusting the mood, transforming the outlook. Now we know why the Aubuchon Hardware store over in nearby Center Ossipee has been advertising snow blowers, shovels, firewood and heating-stove pellets on its roadside sign. Now we know why the migratory birds have fled, the drizzles have had an icy edge, the storm warnings in these parts suddenly have taken on an air of peril.
I’m writing this letter as a citizen, former city of Brookings council member and mayor — not as the CEO of the Brookings Economic Development Corporation.
It’s likely that journalists in South Dakota allowed themselves a few self-satisfied chuckles last month. This mirth was inspired by watching the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee fail to get the information it was seeking about the Freedom Works Here campaign from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.
To hear some tell it, the American people are seething mad and they aren’t going to take it anymore. “Why Are People So Cynical and Angry?” one headline writer wants to know. The Washington Post recently dispatched reporters to Door County, Wisconsin, a location whose voters have favored the winner of the presidential election six times since 2000.
Read what your neighbors are thinking — and writing — about.
Apparently we humans, especially we “religious,” haven’t learned much in a hundred years and more, if anything.
Read what your neighbors are thinking — and writing — about.
I find it amazing how a group of educated, informed leaders can fail to recognize a bad decision when it is presented to them. A classic example is the Brookings City Council’s attempt to become retail developers. The current spotlight is on the Brookings Marketplace plan at Interstate 29 and U.S. Highway 14. This is wrong in so many ways.
