U.S. News posts a list of the country's 50 healthiest counties for kids. On that map, the Northern Plains are a desert: The closest we come to the healthiest places for kids are Olmsted (Rochester) and Washington (Stillwater, east side…
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Chad Haber has many secrets. Among the darkest is that he was once married to Dr. Phil. Or at least that's how it felt to Chad when his wife, Dr. Annette Bosworth, put him on Dr. Phil's weight loss plan.…
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranks counties for health factors and outcomes. Where do they find the healthiest living in South Dakota? Hutchinson Brookings Lincoln Hamlin Bon Homme Clay Edmunds Hughes Day Codington And where will you find the most…
Vote for two Democrats and call me in the morning.... An eager reader forwards me this Mother Jones article that says, based on research by UNL political scientist Mitchel Herian, that more liberal states have healthier people: Why might liberal…
Also on the agenda for today's state Board of Education meeting in Sioux Falls is the first public hearing for new state physical education standards. A team of 26 South Dakota PE teachers and other experts have written up proposals…
In a video barely more coherent than Scott Hoy's viral hit and sixteen times longer, Annette Bosworth drifts through her dreamland, asserting that the most valuable thing she has to offer is her story, and that she could get that…
Following up: here's the key text from a letter by Dr. Daniel J. Heinemann, president of the South Dakota State Medical Association, making explicit the SDSMA's opposition to the in-situ leach (ISL) uranium mining project proposed for the southern Black…
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…