Medical expenses in the United States are infamous in the Western World. The high-stakes gamble that uninsured Americans take invites a range of attention from other first world nations, from morbid curiosity...
Apprenticeships are one of the longest practiced methods of education in human history. During the Middle Ages, European apprenticeships usually entailed a young student committing a certain amount of...
Throughout the summer of 2019, the United States endured a sudden outbreak of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now calls e-cigarette or vaping associated lung injury (EVALI). The mysterious...
HB 1057, a bill criminalizing medical professionals in South Dakota who administer transition therapy to individuals under 16, was introduced to the House of Representatives on Jan. 15. The bill would...
The hundreds of fires raging across Australia in the past month have put Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno” to shame. As destruction sweeps the nation, the fires have killed 28 people and incinerated more...
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem proposed a $4.94 billion state budget for fiscal year 2021 and highlighted the anti-meth campaign, special education and disaster relief.
During Noem’s campaign, a key...
‘Meth, We’re On It.’
That’s the new campaign for the state of South Dakota.
At first, it looked like a bad “Key and Peele” skit or something that you’d see on “Saturday Night Live.”
But...
What a weekend it was in Brookings, South Dakota.
Hotels were sold out, downtown was painted blue and for the first time in Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium’s history, there was a sellout crowd.
Even NFL punter...
Dear Parents,
We still love you.
Yes, we are growing. Yes, we are at a weird stage in our life where we are transitioning from living with you to on our own. We also realize...
The 2019 campus climate survey has had a shockingly low response rate. As of last week’s Students’ Association meeting, less than 10 percent of students had taken the survey.
The survey focuses on...
Low pressure systems have strayed too far from their home in the Arctic, sending many Midwestern states into a polar vortex that has seen plummeting temperatures made even worse by the bitter wind.
Because...
2018 was a year full of highs, lows and an abnormal number of hurricanes — but when the calendar reset the world adopted a new sense of optimism for 2019 and all it has to offer.
While reflecting on...
