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I was amazed, no, actually shocked, with what I had just read. I wasn’t reading Christianity Today or Lutheran Witness magazines. I was reading the April-May 2020 issue of Petersen’s Hunting. The name of the article was “Dear God” by Joe Arterburn.
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We ended the 2020 SD Legislative Session with the threat of the Corna Virus looming. On Thursday, March 12 we passed the budget. I was pleased that both parties and the administration worked together to come to an agreement with a balanced budget. The budget includes a 2% raise to education, state employees and community care professionals and to our Tech schools. Many other opportunities were finance including a $4 million bridge fund which would be matched by over $20 million in Federal dollars. The bridge fund will help pay for bridge replacement, as many are aware we have several old bridges in the state.
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The members of the South Dakota Legislature have had two conference calls with Governor Noem and her staff regarding Covid-19 since session completed on March 12th. As of Friday evening March 20th, there had been 14 positive cases for Covid-19 and today, Sunday the 22nd, there are now 21 positive cases. Two of these have recovered and are no longer testing positive. As of Friday, no one has been hospitalized from the virus in SD. To get daily updates on Covid- 19 cases and prevention go to Covid.SD.gov
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Mamie Shields Pyle was walking by a polling place on Election Day in Huron — a place where women were not welcome in the early 1900s — when she overheard a conversation that changed not only her life, but the course of South Dakota history. A man was holding up a ballot and showing a group of workers (some of whom were illiterate) how to vote. “He was threatening their jobs if they didn’t vote the right way,” says Rachel Farrell, executive director of Huron’s Dakotaland Museum. “Mamie got upset and that’s really what got her started in the suffrage movement.”
Read moreMATTHEW 5: 13-16 “ Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world a city that is set on an hill cannot be hid neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick and it giveth light to all that are in the house let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven.”(KJV)
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As the scope and threat of the coronavirus pandemic becomes clear, people all over the world hunger for two things: an effective vaccine and truthful information about the disease.
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Perhaps you are aware of the Peters case in Aurora County, and the town of White Lake in particular. It involves our SD Game, Fish, & Parks Department vs. Dr. Jeff Peters, allegedly of White Lake.
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Erin Tobin of Winner announced today that she is running for the South Dakota State Senate from District 21. Tobin, a Certified Nurse Practitioner, cited public health and agriculture as two of her main focuses in her campaign. “The overall health of South Dakota is a tremendously important issue at all levels of government, and I want to help keep the public safe and healthy. With a renewed focus on our well-being because of things that are happening in the world today, everyone understands that public health is a very important issue. It would be beneficial for the district and state to have someone who understands and knows the importance of healthcare,” she said.
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