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Posts tagged as “health”

Ohio Suburb Resists Sprawl, Keeps Neighborhood Schools, Needs No Buses

Remember how McGovern Middle School on the northwest edge of Sioux Falls had to ban kids from walking to school because of bad urban planning? Turn with me to Lakewood, Ohio, a 52,000-strong suburb of Cleveland that embraces sensible, community-building…

Planned Parenthood: Weiland Beats Pressler on Pro-Choice, Pro-Women Policies

Hey, Pressler Democrats! Does this flyer help pull you back to Democrat Rick Weiland? Planned Parenthood MN-ND-SD's PAC has been filling South Dakota mailboxes with this mailer. Planned Parenthood has also put up ChooseWeiland.com to remind pro-lady Dems that Weiland…

Women and Children Last: Abortion Restrictions Correlate with Worse Health

Anti-abortion crusaders are more concerned about political grandstanding than women's health outcomes. The Center for Reproductive Rights finds that states where such anti-abortion sentiments prevail in policymaking tend to have worse health outcomes for women and children. Now the study…

Faulk County Really Safe; Jackson County Dangerous

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…

SD Indians Have More Babies, Die Sooner

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…

Daugaard Raises False Fears of 21 Child Refugees Placed in South Dakota

We all fled here from somewhere. According to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the federal government placed 30,340 immigrant children who entered the United States without adult companions with sponsors around the country between January 1 and July 7 of…

Booker Deems Thune Most Buff Senator

Posting selfies is not necessarily narcissism. For New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, it's just a fun project to collect photos of himself with every one of his colleagues... and perhaps a way to build cross-partisan comity, just like other social…