Maybe Governor Daugaard should recruit some bridge engineers from Minnesota. Governing compiles Federal Highway Administration bridge inspection data for 2012 and finds that South Dakota ties with Rhode Island for the fourth-highest percentage of structurally deficient bridges in the nation,…
Posts tagged as “safety”
John Hult offers a good thorough discussion of the ins and outs of the National Transportation Safety Board's recommendation that states lower the blood-alcohol threshold for DUI charges to 0.05%. The policy and enforcement folks Hult talks to don't sound…
The police response to an armed suicide threat at the St. Joseph Indian School in Chamberlain Monday shows more reasons that this year's House Bill 1087, the school gunslinger law, creates unnecessary risks at our schools. The Chamberlain Police Department…
Until yesterday, there had been only one school shooting in South Dakota history. Donald Kurtz, age 17, died from a gunshot wound fired by a classmate from a rifle they were using for sound effects in a school play at…
Among the arguments offered in favor of South Dakota's new school gunslinger law (fortunately still exceptional, as other guns-in-schools reactions have stalled in other, more sensible states that listen to their educators) is that we already have armed police roaming…
Gun notes from all over: Supporters of South Dakota's school gunslinger law say that schools are easy targets for killers and we can deter armed lunatics by hardening those targets with more guns. But at Fort Knox, one of the…
Evidently we're running short on ammunition, particularly bullets for AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifles (really?) due to panic buying. Should I be extra nervous when I see the words "ammunition sales" and "panic" in the same report? Don't you people know…
In other hypocrisy news, the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday rejected Senator Mike Vehle's proposed ban on texting while driving. No one testified against the bill in either the Senate or House hearings, but naysayers on the committee contend that there…