Opinion

Making a big stink about the poop

Published by admin on Thu, 09/22/2022 - 9:52am
The other day I was riding down the Mickelson Trail when I saw a pile of horse poop. And then another and then another. I was outraged. 
 
Who’s in charge of cleaning up the horse poop on the Mickelson trail?
 
How come I have to pick up Sadie’s dog poop but horse riders don’t have to pick up their own poop? 
 
Where is the fairness in this system?
 
That was my initial response. 
 

Letter to the Editor

Published by admin on Thu, 09/22/2022 - 9:48am
Dear Editor,
Governmental overreach. It’s a term that has become commonplace in many areas of life as we have allowed the federal government to creep into every facet of our existence without demanding accountability from those who seek to govern us.  This concept of action based on ideology disguised as protection isn’t new, but I will admit I was surprised when this found its way into the National Park Service. 
 

Migrant busses fuel immigration tension

Published by admin on Thu, 09/22/2022 - 9:32am

Fed up with what they say is a broken border policy in the United States, Republican governors in the state of Texas, Florida and now Arizona have taken to “spreading the wealth” of migrants who have poured through the southern border in record numbers this year by taking those immigrants and putting them on busses and planes and sending them off to states and cities that have declared themselves “sanctuary cities” for immigrants, both legal and illegal.

Shining a light on gaslighting

Published by admin on Thu, 09/22/2022 - 9:26am

Several months ago in a column critical of the UN’s talking dinosaur TV ad promoting climate change ideology, I used the term “gaslighting” to refer to the ad’s particular form of entertaining propaganda. While the term may be new to some readers as it was to me not so long ago, it has been around for decades and has come into much more common usage, especially in the fog of the COVID-19 debacle which started early in 2020 and continues to impact our lives in dramatic ways these many months later.

A slap in the face

Published by admin on Thu, 09/15/2022 - 11:49am

On August 24, eight days after signing the so-called Inflation Reduction Act into law, President Biden announced that with a stroke of his pen, he would authorize a student loan giveaway of up to $10,000 in qualifying student loan debt for most borrowers and up to $20,000 for borrowers who received Pell Grants. Eight days. That’s how long it took President Biden to completely erase any of the supposed deficit reduction included in Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.

Another football season is here

Published by admin on Thu, 09/15/2022 - 11:47am

If you’ve read what I’ve written in this space much at all over the last oh, 20 years, you know that I’m a huge football fan. Always have been, always will be. And really, that’s all levels of football. High school, college, NFL, just put some football on in front of me and I’ll be perfectly happy.

My adventures on a farm

Published by admin on Thu, 09/15/2022 - 9:50am
Growing up south of the Twin Cities, I didn’t have many opportunities to interact with farm animals. My grandparents have a farm, but the animals were long gone by the time I was born. 
 
Two of my friends had hobby farms but as a result they lived an hour or more away. Thus, one of the only times I got to interact with animals was at the county fair petting zoos. 
 

Area crime is out of control

Published by admin on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:32am

If you listened or read the news out of Rapid City the last few weeks, you would think the northside of town has transformed into the South Side of Chicago. OK, maybe it’s not that bad, but with repeated murders and shootings over the course of just a few days, it is clear that crime seems to be on the rise in Rapid City—or at least in certain parts of the town.

Public safety impacts all of us

Published by admin on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:30am

When I was younger my dad always said, “Kristi, we don’t complain about things. We fix them.” As governor, I focus on fixing problems for our state every day, especially when it comes to public safety. I consistently look for new ways to make our communities safer.

Keystone, how can you miss us?

Published by admin on Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:20am
“Keystone, how can you miss us?”
 
I heard that question asked the other day at a Keystone budget hearing. 
 
The person wasn’t saying that Keystone is so amazing and how could you not stop.
 
What they were saying is that geographically speaking, being at the base of Mount Rushmore, how could somebody not know where Keystone is? And not stop?