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A Doodlebug! What? Not to panic, its not a new, invasive insect species. Read on to learn its ingenious significance since just after WWI, through the Great Depression and beyond. These critters have even been…

SD lawmakers face Petri dish session, now with COVID-19 South Dakota lawmakers call it "Capitol crud," a nasty cough, sometimes shakes, or a fever fostered from 10 weeks of winter cooped up in a 110-plus-year-old Capitol with 105 members of South Dakotas citizen Legislature. But this years session has a new, much deadlier bug that could be lurking the statehouse halls: COVID-19.  Written By: Christopher Vondracek | × South Dakotas Capitol building. Matt Gade / R...