On Tuesday, Judge Jeffrey Viken ruled in favor of the Oglala and Rosebud Sioux Tribes and three individual Lakota plaintiffs fighting the state of South Dakota's practice of taking Indian children from their parents: "We are thrilled that the court…
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Everything in South Dakota is political. Walk with me. A reader reminded me this week of the Taliaferro-Schwab case in Aberdeen. I mentioned the story just once on these pages, in June, 2012. Let's review some details: Brandon Taliaferro was…
What's more newsworthy than Republican U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth's attempt to portray Democratic campaign mastermind and possible Sioux Falls mayoral candidate Steven Hildebrand as a faithless filthy capitalist? Hildebrand's one-line assessment of the greatest flaw in Sioux Falls' economy...…
Last month I drove toward the notion of a right to health care by considering the European idea of a right to bear children. Now let's consider the right to health care in the context of the right to play.…
Mr. Montgomery notes that NPR's ombudsman has blasted Laura Sullivan's controversial October 2011 investigation of South Dakota's treatment of Native American foster children. In a lengthy indictment, Edward Schumacher-Matos identifies five major violations of NPR's code of journalistic ethics: 1.…
I hear far too many of my conservative friends falling for the anti-vaccine fad. Don't be stupid: vaccines are not some insidious child-killing plot. Vaccines are, in the words of one molecular biologist working on a vaccine for malaria, "the…
Governor Dennis Daugaard was strangely absent from a summit of South Dakota's nine tribes held May 15 through May 17 in Rapid City to discuss South Dakota's failure to comply with the federal Indian Child Welfare Act. Given the charges…
South Dakota has a higher rate of births to unwed moms than any neighboring state. We have more people, but fewer are getting married: from 2000 to 2011, the marriage rate dropped from 9.1 per thousand residents to 7.5. And…