Letters to the Editor

Proposal for Civic Center at BHSU promotes Manifest Destiny

To the Editor, As a taxpayer and alumnus of Black Hills State University, I oppose HB 1213 for two reasons: (1) As written, it is redundant; and (2) As intended, it proposes a politically partisan educational center, inappropriate to a state-funded university. HB 1213 is redundant because, as written, it provides $200,000 for educational opportunities that BHSU already provides, or […]

Congressman calls for death to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children

To The Editor, “I think we should kill them all”, said right-wing reprobate Republican Congressman Andy Ogles from Tennessee on February 15, 2024. And who does this hate-filled, harebrained hillbilly want to commit a Nazi-style extermination campaign against precisely? CHILDREN. (Not embryos, Alabama!) Real, alive, already-born children in Palestine must all be murdered with your American taxpayer dollars and weaponry […]

Incessant exploitation of these beautiful lands

To The Editor, Who would have thought it, the love of what is buried in the Black Hills is the root of much evil? And, so as we have seen over the last 200 years that which is buried in the Paha Sapa has led to much heartache, abuse, violence, murder and one of the greatest acts of theft of […]

Humans are insane

To The Editor, As I look around this great earth I see a society, a civilization, a species that is happily and willingly headed to extinction. It seems that humans are, after all, insane. It is may task in my lfe to find a new direction, something, in which I believe I have succeeded. It turns out that this was […]

Cultivated meat, it’s the right thing to do

To the editor, Cultivated meat has faced some opposition recently. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. Strangely, opponents have argued both the new protein isn’t technologically feasible and it should be banned. You would think, if these folks truly believed the former, the latter shouldn’t be necessary. The truth is cultivated meat […]

Earth is the Tijuana of the Milky Way

To the Editor, Here’s an interesting question regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: if the world’s greatest military powers have been reverse engineering UAPs (better known as UFOs) for the better part of the past century as recently testified to in blockbuster congressional hearings that most of the milquetoast mainstream media missed for their usual reasons of corporate cowardice, how did multiple […]

Governor Noem banned from Pine Ridge Rez

To the Editor, Stress test for sure. While here in South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) and her haunts have traveled twice to the Texas, Mexico border in her biding with Trump; believing she’ll be named his vice-presidential running mate 2024. Not believing here that will happen. With Trump having a history of pulling a jackass out his hat if […]

Winnebago’s no Democratic Constitution

To the Editor, The Winnebago tribal members were deceived. They trusted the tribal council at the time. We were told we were going to vote for a new and much better Winnebago tribal constitution. At the time we had complete trust in our tribal council. When we as a tribe voted I noticed there was no separation of the three […]

We like-minded must continue to let our voices be heard

To the Editor, Chief Luther Standing Bear: “But the old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing living things soon led to lack of respect for human beings, too. So he kept his children close to nature’s softening influence.” And so colonization continues as we read […]

The way we treat farm animals is wrong

To the Editor, I think most people, deep down, know the way we treat farm animals is wrong. What they may not be aware of is nascent technology that makes aligning our values with our gustatory preference much easier. I’m talking about cultivated meat. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, cultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without […]


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