Opinion

People use the word “love” casually. They talk about how they love their shoes, their favorite shows and pumpkin spice lattes. Has our concept of love changed? Have we changed? 

I like those stories of couples who are married for 60-some years who die within hours of each other. OK, not the dying part, but the rest of it. They spent their lives together and couldn’t exist without each other. But is that love or something else? 

Greetings again! Happy early voting! Yep, early voting starts this Friday, April 17. To vote early, go to your respective courthouse in District 30. Those court houses are in Hot Springs (Fall River County), Custer (Custer County) and Rapid City (Pennington County). This election is called the Primary Election. This means each party has a runoff of their party’s candidates who are running for office in the General Election Nov. 3. It’s like the semifinals before the big game.  

Greetings!  Veto Day (or should I say Veto Days) has come and gone. We gaveled in caucus at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, March 30 and gaveled out, or traditionally called sine die, at 3:40 a.m. on March 31. Sine die is Latin for “without assigning a day for further convening.” The tradition of opening both back doors to each chamber, then at the same time, the speaker of the House looks across the rotunda to the president of the Senate and they gavel out dismissing the legislative session. This protocol didn’t happen because of the COVID-19 virus.