Opinion

Mamie Shields Pyle was walking by a polling place on Election Day in Huron — a place where women were not welcome in the early 1900s — when she overheard a conversation that changed not only her life, but the course of South Dakota history.

Because we are an aging population, I’ll assume that many column readers are getting on in years. If this assumption is correct, today’s column should be relevant to a fair number of readers. I have accumulated 17 preference points for a Black Hills “any elk” license.

The Hot Springs VA and the entire community have been providing care to America’s veterans for more than 110 years, earning it the nickname “The Veterans Town.

The second to last week of session has now come and gone and we are in the home stretch of the 2020 Legislative Session. I only have one update this week as it relates to bills that I am carrying this session.

Everyone is waiting and working on the budget with the appropriations committee’s in the Senate and House. The waiting comes because we won’t know until all the legislation is done. March 9, legislative day bills have to be finalized.

The 95th session of the South Dakota Legislature is nearly over with 4 days left this next week and veto day which is the 30th of March. The final week will be very busy, as this week was, while we get through all the remaining Senate bills.

Many farms are in loan renewal season with their lending institutions and the term working capital will be a part of that conversation. So, what exactly is working capital? The equation is simply balance sheet current assets minus balance sheet current liabilities.

We have wrapped up Week 7 of the legislative session with only 2 more weeks to go before we are finished with our work for the year. Here is a quick update on the bills that I still have alive in the process.

Crossover Day was Thursday, which means the bills had to be passed by the House of origin. Which means the bill passed by the House come over to the Senate committees for work and will be voted on by the full Senate if they are passed out of committee.

The Senate recently voted on two commonsense bills that would have gone a long way to help defend the rights of the defenseless. Unfortunately, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act were both defeated, largely on party lines.