Wait a minute: now addiction is a workforce issue? Leaders of Face It Together say support for people with that disease is especially important during the state's current worker shortage. An Aberdeen affiliate plans to open later this year. ...Because…
Posts tagged as “values”
The Chamberlain School Board won't even talk about allowing the Lakota members of its student body and community present a Lakota/Dakota honor song at its high school graduation ceremonies. Fine. Let's take it outside. Chamberlain alumnus, now doctoral student Nick…
Some South Dakota legislators think it's fine to discriminate against certain kinds of human beings but not to discriminate against certain kinds of dogs. Senate Bill 75 appears to be a manifestation of pit-bull obsession. Its purpose is to "prohibit…
In the absolutely not-news department, KELO discovers that kids can use computers to find racy pictures on the Internet and that Web filters are imperfect. In the absolutely not-politically-consistent department, champion of personal responsibility Dakota War College concludes that since…
Marriage-wrecking adulterer Mark Sanford won a South Carolina Congressional seat last night. Quick check—yup, ring still on my finger, heart still committed to my wife. But we can now take family values off the table as a distinguishing voting issue…
Can the church and South Dakota keep her? University of Sioux Falls student Dannika Nash points to the hopeful example of 5,000 young people in Sioux Falls cheering marrige equality: I got to go to the Macklemore concert on Friday…
Bob Mercer mistakes Ken Blanchard's sporadic narrow-minded only-ism for the deepest thinking in the state. Dr. Blanchard says past performance does not indicate future climate results: I have been skeptical of world climate modeling projected into the future for the…
I haven't rewatched It's a Wonderful Life yet this year, but I get a little verklempt just thinking about it. I wonder if maybe we ought to show Frank Capra's masterpiece on July 4 as well as Christmas. Robert Reich…