The morning paper brings the charming "Letters to Santa" insert. The paper leads with this entreaty from Pace of Belle Fourche: Santa can I have a rifle ples. Can I have a boineroples Can I have a bebe gon Can…
Posts tagged as “children”
Congresswoman Kristi Noem has tried to make new federal school lunch guidelines a political issue. Noem considers the issue important enough for photo ops, though not important enough to warrant her attendance at committee meetings on the topic. Noem has…
Full disclosure: I'm glued to my computer screen right now. My wife is on her laptop My six-year-old is running back and forth across the apartment with a large scarf—I'm a bird! ...Now I have a cape!" No thunk yet,…
On Wednesday, the South Dakota Supreme Court upheld the Second Circuit's decision to throw out ten sexual abuse lawsuits filed by former students of St. Paul's School in Marty. The Native American plaintiffs accused the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls,…
My wife has helped me realize that women exist to make sure men don't kill the offspring by doing stupid things like chasing buffalo and riding motorcycle. My confidence in women was shaken just a bit by a woman at…
In another difficult case dealing with the welfare of a child, the South Dakota Supreme Court yesterday ruled unanimously in favor of the Department of Social Services over a Native American father from California. Three years ago, DSS took a…
Remember the controversial NPR report last October that investigated inequities in South Dakota's treatment of Native American children in our foster care system? Well, that radio journalism was good enough to win reporter Laura Sullivan and her NPR producers a…
Sure, it's small potatoes... until it's your three-year-old on the edge of a wet-pants freak-out. As Madison residents spend this month furiously thinking up counterplans for using the $150,000 that our city commissioners are willing to entertain spending to subsidize…