Kevin Woster

Amendment C, which was placed on the ballot by the Republican supermajorities in the South Dakota House and Senate, would require that certain ballot measures get at least 60-percent approval by voters to become law, instead of the now-required simple majority.

High school was difficult for my grandniece Lara.Books helped. They helped a lot. A couple in particular.You could say she lost herself in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, except that what she really did was find herself. And find comfort in the words, a way forward in life in a world full of trouble.

I’m m trying to figure out who are we as a state on the abortion issue. Today, I mean. I remember who we were in 2006 and 2008, years when state voters rejected proposed abortion bans by nearly identical margins of about 10 percentage points.

It was an unwritten rule in the Rapid City Journal newsroom that when you stopped in Wall — or just passed through — while on assignment, you were obligated to bring back doughnuts.

This week I’ve been thinking about Jason Ravnsborg, of course. His impeachment by the South Dakota House was big news.But there was other news for me to consider, brought by the Archangel Gabriel.Or at least by a man who said that’s who he was. Is, I guess.

Wait, what? The special South Dakota House committee formed to investigate whether state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg should be impeached refused to hear a key piece of evidence: a presentation by South Dakota Highway Patrol officers who investigated the car-pedestrian accident that killed 55-year-old Joe Boever.

Let’s set aside for just a moment the impeachment discussions about South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg.

Nick Nemec has plenty to focus on these days.It’s dry over in the Holabird area, where Nemec and his family own and operate a farming-ranching operation. Awfully dry.

The nice thing about MRIs is they don’t expose you to any radiation. But sometimes they can affect the inner ear a bit and leave you feeling a little dizzy or light-headed.

He had me at VA.Well, he also kinda had me at “I’m big. I’m bald. I’m bold. And I’m here to build bridges for South Dakota.”