Now that Chad Haber is finally talking to the media about his purported desire to be attorney general, he's confirming what I've known would happen: get Chad talking, and he'll sink his own life raft without any help from me.…
Posts published in July 2014
I know better than to get my hopes up. But after mostly idle chatter on the topic at the last couple meetings, the Legislature's Government Operations and Audit Committee will hear from not just one but two state officials tomorrow…
Where do you find the most careful people in South Dakota? Faulkton, Cresbard, and Orient: According to state Department of Health data, from 2008 to 2012, Faulk County had the lowest rate of accidental deaths in South Dakota, just an…
Looking for the oldest moms in South Dakota? Odds are you'll find them in Eureka: McPherson County has the highest average age of ladies making babies over the five-year period from 2008 to 2012. New McPherson moms are a ripe…
Bob Mercer and Leo Kallis gang up on the state of South Dakota for demographic density. Mercer reviews South Dakota birth stats for 2012 and notices that American Indians are having babies at more than twice the rate of us…
Travis Betsworth, general manager of the Original Pancake House in Sioux Falls, categorically denies an accusation that it fired an employee for praying with customers. Mr. Betsworth said this afternoon, "We would never fire anybody for praying." Quite the contrary,…
The latest Madville Times poll calls into question the thesis advanced by Team Rounds last week that Larry Pressler is taking more votes away from Democrat Rick Weiland than from Republican Mike Rounds. I asked Wednesday, "Who gets your vote…
The Sun is our friend: vitamin D, solar power, and photosynthesis, the basis of life as we know it. But Black Hills science writer Stan Gibilisco points out that the Sun is dangerous. He's not talking about wrinkles; he's talking…