As we approach late winter-early spring fishing in South Dakota, most anglers are thinking walleye. With this in mind, I will once again urge our Game, Fish, & Parks commissioners
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When the American people hear politicians and pundits discuss the economy, the message is often framed in broad and subjective terms – one person says it’s booming, another says it’s
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Tribal members have been in the midst of a government-induced health care crisis for decades due to poor leadership and mismanagement at the Indian Health Service (IHS). For far too
Read moreNot long ago, the news site ProPublica published an important story about employers who, in their quest for a younger and cheaper workforce, were pushing out “older” workers – often
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Until the day Ted Blakey died in 2004, he possessed a newspaper clipping from February 1838. It advertised his grandfather, an 11-year-old boy at the time, for sale at a
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On the weekend of February 1st, Betsy and I traveled out to Spearfish to visit our longtime friends, Art and Janice Jones. Art is the best all-around fisherman I know,
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After listening to the president’s recent State of the Union address, I expressed optimism about his vision for pursuing an agenda that inspires cooperation, commonsense, and compromise. The two parties,
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I may not be a farmer, but I know what it’s like to work hard. If you are a farmer duringweeks like this one, where Antarctica looks balmy, there is
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