Opinion
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US nursing shortage is no mirage
The federal government is predicting a nursing shortage in 2025, and were already seeing signs of one locally. Around one-fifth of registered nursing positions in Massachusetts home health care and nursing homes are unfilled. Massachusetts hospitals spent $1.1 billion last year hiring temporary registered nurses to fill vacancies. Nationally, according…
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South Dakota lawmakers unwilling to accept defeat on Medicaid expansion
Throughout the recent past, Republicans in the South Dakota Legislature have had a tempestuous relationship with Medicaid expansion. When the federal government offered a way to expand the pool of people who receive Medicaid benefits, the Republican supermajorities refused to go along. When Medicaid expansion became a constitutional amendment in…
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Regret signing that petition? South Dakota Republicans are here to help
Ever since the South Dakota Legislature dismantled the voter-approved anti-corruption measure known as IM 22 in record time, lawmakers and the people who back initiated measures have been locked in a battle of the ballot box. Lawmakers try to throw up as many roadblocks to ballot access as they can…
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Getting ready for rodeo season
By Carleen WildMoody County Enterprise At 13-years-old, Blaine Kansanback is one of the most polite and unassuming young men you might ever meet. The Colman area youngster just celebrated his birthday and all that comes with it a little more freedom, feeling a little more grown up, a little more…
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And you thought football season was over
The Super Bowl, for most of us, suggests its the end of another great season of football. Not for Dani Flute. The 38-year-old All-American Womens Professional Division 3 Football player out of Colman is just getting back on the gridiron. She earned the title in her first year of playing…
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Native American lawmaker finds little support in quest to reconcile the races in South Dakota
In 1990, Gov. George Mickelson proclaimed a century of racial reconciliation in South Dakota. Given recent events, it just might take that long. Gov. Kristi Noem managed to anger Native American legislators when she asserted that the states reservations were strongholds for Mexican drug cartels. She smoothed over some of…
