As Kristi Noem and other conservatives embarrass themselves trying to make political hay over the USDA's new school lunch nutrition standards, they ignore the well-timed news from Lynn Taylor Rick at the Rapid City Journal that South Dakota is one…
Posts tagged as “health”
Waiter! There's a fly in my soup! Going out for lunch today? Then you may enjoy the new statewide online health score database for South Dakota eateries, motels, and campgrounds. As you review your favorite café's health inspector scores, keep…
Dissent gets you investigated if you are a doctor in South Dakota. On May 30, Dr. Annette Bosworth wrote an opinion column in that Sioux Falls paper alleging that the state Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners had "reprimanded" 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…
The Center for Disease Control's latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (yes, such pleasurable afternoon reading) assesses states' use of their tobacco settlement money and tobacco taxes. We love that revenue so much that we have spent only a tiny…
The Sioux Nation Shopping Center, the Pine Ridge Reservation's only grocery store, runs some pretty stale stock photos on its home page: Maybe I'm just racist, but I get the feeling there might be a disconnect between the Sioux Nation…
Here's a round-up of research not being conducted at a South Dakota university run by Monsanto executive board member David Chicoine: Monsanto's flagship herbicide Roundup damages mouth cells and DNA: To reflect occupational exposure, human buccal epithelial cells were exposed…
Prairie atheists, take heart! South Dakota is not the most religious state in the nation. Gallup finds that we rank just 13th: Maybe being only 13th is why South Dakota hasn't struck oil yet: 55% of us just aren't praying…