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Every year during Hunger Action Month, Feeding South Dakota joins our peers around the country to build awareness of food insecurity and the steps we can all take, today and in the long term, to help end hunger. This year, the need for South Dakotans to get involved and make a difference has never been…

On July 21, President Donald Trump wholeheartedly endorsed South Dakotas junior Republican senator, Mike Rounds, in the lawmakers quest for a third term in 2026. But at what cost for Rounds? Despite calling the senator a jerk some years ago and vowing never to support him (because he called the 2020 election fair), the president…

Growing up on the ranch, you learn that results matter. No matter how much you wish it might rain or wish it wouldnt hail, the only thing that matters is whether it did the actual result. And it doesnt matter whether you planned to do a task what matters is whether you got it accomplished…

In recent years it felt like the rest of the world was going crazy. There were conspiracy theories about the weirdest things: Barack Obamas birth certificate, the existence of a deep state that secretly controls the federal government, Donald Trumps supposed fight against a Satanic group of child molesters. Surely, these theories sprang from the…

The South Dakota State Fair is something to celebrate. Once a year for a few days, it seems like the whole state is in Huron, and everyone has a smile on their face. At one event this year, we kicked off the celebration of Americas 250th birthday with a mock signing of the Declaration of…

Sometimes a guy gets so desperate for a little balance in South Dakota politics he comes up with some delusional ideas. Like my idea on how Billie Sutton could be governor. Sutton, I might remind you, is a Democrat. And a Democrat hasnt been elected governor in South Dakota since just this side of the…

When confronted with the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts on July 14, 1798, which Thomas Jefferson and James Madison viewed as an untrammeled attack on the fundamental rights of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, as well as the republican system itself, they turned to familiar constitutional guardrails Americans fierce defense…

A recently published Mallard Fillmore newspaper cartoon about obesity disrespected science by purposely misrepresenting it. The conservative comic strip was published in my local paper Aug. 9, ironically the 80th anniversary of Americas cataclysmic A-bomb attack on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in 1945, one of historys most alarming and also among the most catastrophic…

The timing was coincidental, though certainly noteworthy. As members from my administration met with industry leaders to discuss how to strengthen our states critical infrastructure, we were experiencing our own significant infrastructure challenges. The first meeting of my newly appointed GRIT task force was taking place at the same time as a major technology service…