I’m no economist, so I’m won’t say our senators and congresspeople should vote “aye” or “naye” on the Big Big Bailout in Washington, D.C.
But I do have an OSDE degree. That stands for Observer of South Dakota Economics. As a small businessman who gets to travel South Dakota quite a lot, I’ve taken a [...]
There’s a play and movie titled “Same Time Next Year” about a man and woman who rendezvous once a year for 20-some years.
Well, writers and readers in South Dakota will make it four straight years this weekend when they rendezvous in downtown Sioux Falls for our state’s annual Festival of Books. The event has quickly [...]
Five years ago today, the Al Neuharth Media Center opened at the University of South Dakota. It has been an impressive addition to the campus, and another reminder of how Al Neuharth hasn’t forgotten his roots.
The kid from Alpena and Eureka who graduated from USD and tried to start a weekly South Dakota sports magazine [...]
Workers cut a very old cottonwood tree down this week on the University of South Dakota campus. It was a sad occasion. The Vermillion school has lost a lot of grand old trees, and this one happened to shade the venerable Old Main. In fact, its proximity to Old Main hastened its end; officials were [...]
Guess where this stone memorial is located in South Dakota and win a free one-year subscription to South Dakota Magazine. Everyone’s eligible except the nice fellow who sent me the picture. I’ll provide some clues if it proves too difficult. Click on the photo for a larger image.
Go ahead and take a wild guess.
South Dakota Magazine will be 24 years old next year, and if we play our cards right and don’t print any rattlesnake covers we could reach 40,000 subscribers as well in 2009. It has been a slow and steady climb, the way a magazine should grow.
We made lots of our mistakes back when we were [...]
Here’s a prediction for 2009. A total ban on smoking in public places is going to be one of the hot topics in the South Dakota State Legislature.
Last night, Nebraska State Senator Joel Johnson met in Yankton with some lawmakers, candidates, physicians and other local leaders. Officials from state chapters of the American Cancer Society [...]
Today we received word that Linda Hasselstrom of Hermosa, Bill Wood of Newell and Yvonne Hollenbeck of Clearfield will represent South Dakota at the next prestigious National Cowboy Poetry Gathering set for Jan. 24-31, 2009 in Elko, Nevada.
Elko is the Super Bowl for cowboy poets, and we can be proud of our three. Of course, [...]
I spent part of last week in meetings with people from around the state. We were gathered by one of our large health organizations to brainstorm on the future of health care and South Dakota in general. I don’t know if the group wants me to use its name so I won’t … since [...]
Artists have begun their work to save the Meeker Ranch near Custer — both on canvas and in reality.
Led by the renowned Jon Crane, the artists are painting on location (plein aire) at the ranch this week. Visitors are welcome to come and watch. There will be signage from Custer. At the end of [...]
Television explorer Bear Grylis will test his survival skills in the Badlands of South Dakota, tonight (Wednesday, Sept. 10) on the Discovery Channel. For those who are not familiar with Mr. Grylis, he (according to the Discovery Channel web site) “travels around the globe to find the most dangerous tourist locations and environments, in [...]
Several dozen of us gathered in Yankton again last night to talk wind energy. Never in my life have I found the South Dakota public so united and progressive in wanting action on any issue. They want new sources. They want them to be developed locally. And they want the community to benefit from them. [...]
South Dakota’s well-known aerial photographer Dave Tunge of Dakota Aerials sends us this photo of a small South Dakota town. Be the first to guess the town’s name and we’ll award you a copy of our photo book, South Dakota Photographed.
Click on the photo for a big view. And we’ll provide a few clues [...]
We’ve always hesitated to give advice on mushroom hunting because we’re worried that a reader might eat a poisonous fungi. And when we did feature an article on cooking with chokecherries we were very careful to point out that readers shouldn’t eat them raw because the pits and leaves contain cyanogenetic glycoside (which transforms into [...]
Everywhere we travel in South Dakota, people ask us about Colin Kapitan. Due to his many years as a football and basketball official, he has sports friends throughout the region. And everybody loves Kap.
So lots of people are happy with today’s news that he is receiving the NAIA’s prestigious Larry Lady Award for [...]