Opinion

The regular meeting of the Gregory County Board of Commissioners was held at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at the Gregory County Courthouse. Surveyors have been busy The following seven plats were approved by the commissioners as presented: 1.

Representative Taffy Howard is running for Congress to drain the DC swamp. Taffy has a proven track record of championing conservative policies in Pierre and has dedicated her life to fighting for freedom.

Over the past two years, America has seen some of the most concerning attacks on freedom in our history. Governments seized previously unimagined power over our day-to-day lives. Churches were forced to close, forsaking freedom of religion. Big Tech and government alike attempted to police speech, something that is supposed to be free for all. And though the Supreme Court seems poised to advance the right to life of all people,

Jane Kramer, one of the most admired writers for The New Yorker Magazine convinced her editor in 1977 that she wanted to write a special story on the “last cowboy”. At the time, she lived in New York with her husband and daughter and had traveled to Europe many times for her stories.

Please join in a critical look at the razzle-dazzle of the news about the crises facing us all. We are now learning to live with COVID so we can get on with our lives. The US has passed 1 million deaths from the virus. Those of us who are vaccinated aren’t afraid of using masks and taking precautions so we don’t have to worry. Not wearing a mask became such a symbol of defying big government regulation, and vaccination became so political in this country, I wonder what would have happened if the vaccine had been called the Trump vaccine. There are so many side effects from the pandemic and its effect on people’s lives that total recovery will take a long time. But vaccine research had given us new vaccines for the rest of the world. The shutdown in China illustrates the problem of a dictatorial government which does not have an effective vaccine, and President Xi Jinping must keep control of the virus to get his dictatorship renewed. When their economy is shut down, it affects availability and prices of things here.

Nature has a way of humbling us, of stepping into our lives with previously unthought power and reminding us what truly matters. That's how I felt these past two days while surveying storm damage across much of South Dakota.

The early fur trapper or mountain man was an individual in tune with the world he inhabited. Most of the time alone in the wilderness, he was his own cook, surgeon, soldier, wrangler, guide, seamstress, veterinarian, and gunsmith.

Dear editor, This is a PS to my last week’s letter to the editor. I have received quite a few calls on that letter, with all of them saying they agree with me.

When you think about South Dakota, you can’t help but picture the great outdoors. The beautiful Black Hills, with their mix of mountain ranges and rolling prairies. The mighty Missouri River — winding across the state and feeding thousands of miles of riverbed and streams. The picturesque prairie lakes and the wideopen fields that I call home. From the Badlands to farmlands, we’ve got plenty of reasons to go outside. Whether you are there to work or there to play, the outdoors benefits our economy, too. Especially in agriculture and in our hunting and fishing opportunities.

During the first half of the 19th century, standard medical practice consisted of a relatively small number of treatments which were often characterized by their immediate, visible, and sometimes severe impact on the patient. Active and vigorous antidotes were often used by the early doctors on the frontier. These sometime resulted in a fatal outcome.