Terry Woster News Today

We skied all day long, baked in the sun, cooked simple meals over a campfire and sat around late into the evening, talking and laughing and singing every old song we knew.

The prime sponsor of House Bill 1009, Rep. Ben Krohmer, R-Mitchell, said the change would offer more daylight during the darkest days of winter.

My Chicago friend never bagged a bird that day. Back on campus, you’d have thought he harvested every rooster in the county.

They drank coffee and ate donuts and gabbed away, coming home with smiles, whether they had geese to clean or not.

I wasn’t sure if those head-strong travelers didn’t trust the warnings or if they just felt special and not subject to rules other people followed.

Just the other day, I came up with a real Crackerjack of an invention. This one really could help people.

These days we seem to cram Thanksgiving between Halloween and Christmas, almost an afterthought, or a chore to be done, like feeding the chickens between breakfast and the fieldwork. Too bad. It’s a fine holiday.

If either the initiative or constitutional amendment gets enough signatures to make the ballot and is ultimately approved by voters, it would eliminate the 4.5% state grocery tax that has been a target of legislative reform for decades, mostly by Democrats.

At least once a week on this blog, I have something to say. In writing, I mean.

By simply avoiding public debate, John Thune doesn’t need to spend a penny on the primary because most of South Dakota thinks he is running unopposed.