Numerous sensible observers are pointing to public investment in mental health care as an important and useful response to school violence. Enter the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Beginning in 2014, the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, will…
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Rep. Betty Olson (R-29/Prairie City) and Rev. Rep.-Elect Scott Craig (R-33/Rapid City) are both considering legislation to allow South Dakota teachers to carry guns in their classrooms. Various school superintendents think arming teachers is a bad idea. Fellow pastor and…
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld South Dakota's requirement that doctors tell women they are more likely to kill themselves if they have an abortion. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals got it wrong. The contested legal clause is…
Reaganomics makes me sick. But wait, it's not just me; it's the whole society. According to an argument highlighted by Yankton reporter Nathan Johnson, the rise of neoliberal economics—you know, the "material values and individualism" preached by the Church of…