Opinion

Representative Caleb Finck District 21 Gregory/Tripp Charles Mix/ Bon Homme Counties Committees: Agriculture and Natural Resources, Legislative Procedure, Chair of Transportation Capitol Address: 500 E. Capitol Ave.

Deaths Phyllis Jean Schonebaum, 90, February 24, 2022, Gregory, SD. Larry Larson Kelso, 83, February 20, 2022, Sioux Falls, SD.

They say hindsight is 20-20. Looking back at the year 2020 in hindsight, we now can say that South Dakota consistently made the right decisions during the pandemic.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, “There is no reference to the cat in the Old Testament, the domestication of that animal being later than the Bible, except in Egypt, where it was reverenced as a divine being, and probably thus became tame.”

Senator Erin Tobin District 21 Gregory/Tripp Charles Mix/Bon Homme Counties Committees: Commerce & Energy, Education, Vice Chair of Health & Human Services Capitol Address: 500 E. Capitol Ave.

ARCPLC - Producers can elect coverage and enroll in ARC-CO or PLC, which are both crop-by-crop, or ARC-IC, which is for the entire farm. Although election changes for 2022 are optional, producers must enroll through a signed contract each year. Also, if a producer has a multi-year contract on the farm and makes an election change for 2022, it will be necessary to sign a new contract.

This past Wednesday, the South Dakota Legislature hit one of its biggest milestones of the legislative session: Crossover Day. Those who follow the Capitol calendar know that bills must successfully pass out of the chamber where they began on Crossover Day.

By the time Lewis and Clark visited South Dakota in late August of 1804, mountain men and trappers had already come up the river from St. Louis to find their “El Dorado.” While on their way back down the river to St. Louis in 1806, they met numerous parties going up the river to Montana and the Rocky Mountains.

Representative Rocky Blare District 21 Gregory/Tripp Charles Mix/Bon Homme Counties Committees: Agriculture and Natural Resources, Vice Chair of Transportation Capitol Address: 500 E. Capitol Ave.

First, the Covid situation, vaccination percents, and deaths. Feb. 10 Sask. 75 percent, 1012 deaths; Canada 80 percent 35, 434 deaths; SD 59 percent, 2730 deaths; and USA 65 percent and 918,000 deaths. Jan. Covid deaths peaked at 2,500 per day, mostly in the unvaccinated, and were therefore preventable. “I don’t like the government telling me what to do; over my dead body will I get vaccinated” - careful what you wish for. The US Supreme Court that recently ruled against the federal employee vaccine mandate has an unvaccinated Justice - he is the lapsed Catholic. In the history of the Court, there have been 115 justices, 108 of them white males.