Governor Dennis Daugaard came to Madison yesterday to skydive with local Dairy Queen mogul DeLon Mork. The jump plane buzzed around Lake County (including a surveillance pass over Madville Times World Headquarters on the west side of Lake Herman) for…
Posts tagged as “women”
Elizabeth Rosenthal as been burning up the pages of the New York Times with her series on the high cost of health care in the United States. I mentioned her July 1 article on the high cost of childbirth in…
Margaret Atwood couldn't have written this, because it's too absurd to be believed. Facing vigorous public protest over the Texas Legislature's railroading of draconian abortion restrictions, Texas state troopers searched visitors to the Texas state capitol yesterday and confiscated tampons,…
Here in South Dakota, we celebrate liberty this week by taking away more of women's liberty to make their own health decisions. Yesterday, we expanded our already draconian restrictions on abortion by excluding holidays and weekends from the 72-hour waiting…
Ah! Of course Annette Bosworth is a Republican. She and her husband want government to control women's reproductive choices: How do I add the fact that women are at risk so long term birth control should be mandated [Chad Haber,…
South Dakota's 2006 gay-marriage ban has coincided with a drop our marriage rate and an increase in the rate of births to unwed moms. Nationally, the recession has coincided with another shift in family values. Pew Research finds that moms…
My friend Jana is lit up over what Seth Tupper said. The Mitchell Daily Republic editor tells Stephanie Herseth Sandlin not to run in 2014, and Jana smells sexism. Let's give Seth a close reading and run the sexism check.…
A South Dakota ex-pat friend cheers the Minnesota House's vote for marriage equality and says he's glad to call Minnesota home. I suggest that perhaps my ex-pat friend and Governor Dennis Daugaard's other targets should bring their respectful debate and…