Opinion

I’m going to begin today’s column with a seventies story from my first book, A Dakota Rod and Nimrod. I think you’ll enjoy it. Christmas was at our house that year, and my sister and her family from Palos Heights, a Chicago suburb, were spending the holidays with us.

Depending on where you live, it looks like we may not have a “picture perfect” white Christmas this year. It seems fitting given the many things about 2020 which were not what we imagined, let alone “perfect.

Dear Editor: Dec. 30 is the deadline for people to renew their expired South Dakota driver licenses and ID cards! When COVID-19 temporarily shut down the state’s driver license stations in early March, Gov.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. As I write this, it’s the last day of Hanukkah, Christmas is right around the corner, and the New Year comes shortly thereafter. I know my family is excited to celebrate Christmas and spend some time together.

A few weeks ago a recently widowed lady and avid column reader called. She wanted to know if I would look over her late husband’s guns and place an approximate value on them. Though I’m certainly not in the appraisal business, I told her I’d help her out.

After yet another incredible year, South Dakota is entering 2021 in one of the strongest financial positions in the country. This is largely due to our strong economy, our approach to COVID, and our respect for freedom and personal responsibility.

Today, December 4th, marks the 101st anniversary of the day South Dakota ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which recognized that women have the right to vote.

For the last thirty years of his long life, my father had a son who took him hunting or fishing whenever he wished. Now that I’ve reached those golden years, I wish that I had such a son as Betsy worries that I’ll fall and perish before I’m found every time I go hunting by myself.

PSALM 101:1-5 1) "I will sing of mercy ( loving kindness ) unto thee O Lord, will I sing. 2) I will behave myself. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

I’ve always thought that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night could keep a Norwegian from a plate of lutefisk, but this year has challenged that belief.