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• Don’t take on the good guys: The Kamala Harris example

  The 1989 Cher song “If I Could Turn Back Time” comes to mind when I think about the end of Kamala Harris’s campaign to be the Democratic candidate for president.

  22 hours ago

• The luck of the draw

  The main problem, said Windy to himself, is a lack of variety. He got up from his kitchen table and poured a fourth cup of coffee. The weather outside was terrible, he didn’t have any work to do today, Ramses was healthy and asleep over next to the heater. Not bad, said the old cowboy philosopher and camp cook.

  22 hours ago

• A better way to determine how your tax dollars are spent

  Again this month, Congress is operating under a Continuing Resolution, or CR, that expires just a few days before Christmas.

  22 hours ago

• We need to better serve our Native American neighbors

  When education fails our children, our foundation crumbles. So it goes for our Native American friends and neighbors.

  1 day ago

• Judiciary hearing useful for the history it illuminated

  The irony the Democratic impeachers are courting in the latest phase of their drive to remove Donald Trump from the White House is that their efforts may have the effect of helping him win a second term in the White House.

  1 day ago

• It’s Trump, not his supporters, who should scare us

  To hear some people tell it, the sky is definitely falling.

  2 days ago

• House Dems advance toward impeachment of President Trump

  WASHINGTON – The House released a 300-page impeachment report last week detailing wrongdoing by President Donald Trump when he asked the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt to smear former Vice President Joe Biden, one of his chief rivals in the 2020 presidential election.

  2 days ago

• Where does all the time go? To the doctor’s office

  I often hear retired people say, “I’ve never been busier. I don’t know where all the time goes.” Well, I know where it goes: It goes to the doctor’s office.

  3 days ago

• Driving opportunity

  On Dec. 3, I proposed my budget to the Legislature for Fiscal Year 2021. Just like many folks are experiencing, money is tight for the state this year.

  3 days ago

• All I want for Christmas is a small nuclear reactor for South Dakota

  Congress has been drafting the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2019 to help solve our current nuclear waste impasse. If successful, nuclear waste from power plants could be transferred to interim storage sites while work on a permanent repository progresses.

  3 days ago

• Freshly fallen

  Sometimes a poem can seem to be like a jeweler’s setting, in which a gemlike image is presented.

  3 days ago

• Do the right thing: Welcome refugees

  Although it’s been a long time, I can still picture Mr. Napp cleaning the church. We lived right next door to the church building in Conneaut, Ohio.

  5 days ago

• Take care of your lawn; keep making progress

  In my most recent recap mailing of our city utilities billing, there was information in respect to a new yard waste cart.

  5 days ago

• Democrats should heed Obama’s message

  The Democrats should be listening to Barack Obama. He is only one of two Democrats to win the presidency in the last 43 years, and the only victor in the 21st century. So he knows what he’s talking about, and he was right on target when he told a party fundraiser last month that Democrats “have to be rooted in reality.”

  5 days ago

• Debate surrounding acting legal AG’s legal authority intensifies

  Washing-ton – If you are having a hard time keeping track of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, you are not alone.

  1 year ago