Opinion

After 40 years as a doctor interacting with patients, in the last two and a half years the tables turned, and I’ve become the patient.

Rog's Rod & Nimrod As an avid South Dakota hunter/fisherman, I have two favorite times of the year. One is the second week of November when the rifle deer season rolls around and pheasant season picks up as the crops are usually out of the fields.

Spring time is a wonderful time of the year. It seems that everything has received a message from God saying wake up, it is time to rise again.

There’s no doubt the storms this spring have been difficult for many of our communities. In March, a bomb cyclone left part of our state underwater and part of our state in dangerous blizzard conditions. April’s Winter Storm Wesley sent another two feet of snow to many areas.

South Dakota residents continue to share with me their concerns about flooding and high water levels in many of our rivers and lakes.

Recently Peggy, an Indiana woman and reader of this column, sent me a lengthy email about her 94-year-old mother who is rapidly spending down her minimal savings to pay for prescription drugs. Peggy didn’t hold out much hope that prices would come down before it was too late for her mom.

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.