Opinion

Find me one person who enjoys paying taxes, and I’ll find 10 million other people who’d rather not. While few taxpayers, if any, are doing cartwheels over giving Uncle Sam part of their hard-earned paycheck, almost everyone recognizes that it’s important to pay a share of our nation’s tax burden.

On a good day, I can hear one of the telltale sounds of spring just outside my office window. No, it’s not the melody of a meadowlark, or the honks of snow geese heading north on their spring migration, although for many South Dakotans both are indicative of winter’s end.

The world of radiology began in 1895 when a European physicist Wilhelm Röntgen noticed fluorescence behind heavy cardboard when a cathode tube was activated nearby.

Some scribe once polled a thousand hunters in order to determine whether or not hunters follow a specific behavior pattern.

A.P. Kalem said, “War is never a lasting solution for any problem.” However, is that statement completely true? War, through the ages, has brought great advances and solutions in medicine.

We hunters are in the midst of a crisis, and we need to act right now! If you look for a common concern in all of today’s outdoor magazines, it would be the decline in numbers of our nation’s hunters. First and foremost, hunter dollars profoundly affect wildlife management.

We all headed back to Pierre after a 2-week break for one final day, which was Veto Day, last Friday, March 29. The two bills on the agenda were House Bill 1186 and Senate Bill 176. Also, in the House, we elected 5 new members to the Executive Board and approved the next year’s legislative calendar.

By Richard P. Holm, MD Ms. A. was in the bagel shop line and told the server she was allergic to peanuts. The server reassured her there were no peanuts in the bagel but was unaware some peanut butter was left on the knife from an earlier sandwich. After a few bites of the bagel, Ms. A.

Ice fishing, except for up north, is pretty much done for the season, but I wanted to tell you about Burke Lake while it was fresh in my mind. Last month an ATV went through the ice on Burke Lake in spite of the lake’s two feet thick ice.

South Dakotans have patiently awaited the joyful harbingers of spring: a tree beginning to bud, a flash of color from a tulip, grass slowly changing hue from brown to green. But the first sign of spring we received this year was not so welcome.