Opinion

Rog's Rod & Nimrod As we approach late winter-early spring fishing in South Dakota, most anglers are thinking walleye. With this in mind, I will once again urge our Game, Fish, & Parks commissioners to protect our walleyes as Minnesota and Wisconsin does during the spawn.

Dear Editor: Recently, I received an unexpected call from Mr. Goter. He informed me that Wagner Community School has decided to start a Hall of Fame. He then told me that I was selected to be a member of the inaugural class.

I may not be a farmer, but I know what it’s like to work hard. If you are a farmer duringweeks like this one, where Antarctica looks balmy, there is no option to simply take the day off. Farmers endure. Agriculture endures. Agriculture is our state’s #1 industry.

After listening to the president’s recent State of the Union address, I expressed optimism about his vision for pursuing an agenda that inspires cooperation, commonsense, and compromise.

Rog's Rod & Nimrod On the weekend of February 1st, Betsy and I traveled out to Spearfish to visit our longtime friends, Art and Janice Jones. Art is the best all-around fisherman I know, and I know a lot of good fishermen.

Until the day Ted Blakey died in 2004, he possessed a newspaper clipping from February 1838. It advertised his grandfather, an 11-year-old boy at the time, for sale at a slave auction in Missouri.

THINKING ABOUT HEALTH: Not long ago, the news site ProPublica published an important story about employers who, in their quest for a younger and cheaper workforce, were pushing out “older” workers – often those in their early 50s.

The phone rang, and I answered it because the call was from a nearby community. No big surprise that the caller was obviously not from anywhere near, and the caller was asking for a donation for some organization in which I had no interest. I said, in a kindly tone, “No thank you,” and hung up.

Rog's Rod & Nimrod When Brian Maas of Parkston first let me know about the Sinkebeil wolf a few weeks ago, he sent me some photos that were not used with my column or in the stories that followed in newspapers, on television, and Facebook, etc.

As an instructor with the SD Center of Farm/Ranch Management (SDCFRM) program, I am not sure I am proud of the title of this article. In the past few months, I have signed up a number of new clients and, after working with them the first day, they tell me, “Where were you five years ago?