Opinion

Two weeks ago I suggested that crop herbicides and pesticides might have something to do with our struggling pheasant population. I received a well written letter from a Fulton area farmer with regard to my intimation. He made some excellent points.

It must be Monday. My fingers are about two steps behind my brain while I’m working this keyboard. Perhaps if I drink a second cup of Folger’s coffee, I will get things coordinated. In the meantime, I was quite impressed by my grandkids.

As you read today’s column, I’ll be West River deer hunting in Lyman County. It’s new country for me, I’m excited about it, and I’ll write about that next week.

What was the name of the tallest mountain in the world before they discovered Mt. Everest? Mt. Everest. That bad boy was the highest before and after it was discovered. Are you ready for another one? Okay, what word does every dictionary spell wrong? W-r-on-g.

As my term comes to a close, Linda and I have been planning for our future outside the Governor’s office. One of the things we are most looking forward to is spending more time with friends, family and loved ones.

I was humbled and honored to have joined the president, vice president, and secretary of agriculture in the Oval Office when the president announced to me and several of my agriculture-state Senate colleagues that he was directing his administration to move forward with the year-round sale of...

Rog's Rod & Nimrod Around my home Wagner area, I did not hear any glowing reports about the pheasant opener on October 20th. I actually heard some miserable reports.

Weather Watch My pickup is thirteen years old and answers to the name of Lizzie. When we brought her home, I figured for sure that this was the last new Chevy, or for that matter, new anything I would own. Now I’m not so sure.

It was a number of years ago and I was working in the emergency room when a severely compromised 20-year-old woman with cerebral palsy came in battling a lung infection.

Rog's Rod & Nimrod Today’s column on chemicals might be important. Then again, it might not. In past columns I have pointed at chemical crop additives as being a possible “X” factor when it comes to our declining pheasant population.