This is a fun photo from today’s Brookings Register, the newspaper in the town where our family resides. It shows Brookings as it appeared sometime during the 1890s. We were able to locate our house…
If you’re at all concerned about the impacts of climate change, here and around the world, I need your help. At 5pm on Tuesday, November 19th, in the Community Room at the City Government Center…
Last night I received the 14th annual Dorothy and Eugene T. Butler Human Rights Award from the city of Brookings, South Dakota. In accepting the award, I commended the city for publicly affirming the importance…
Attention, friends in the Brookings area! I’m helping to organize the “Common Good Film Series,” which will present one documentary or independent film per month at the Brookings Public Library. The titles will focus on…
Okay, okay, so I’m supposed to tell people… Here’s the news: I’ve been chosen to receive the Brookings (South Dakota) Human Rights Award, named for Dorothy & Eugene T. Butler, Jr. There’s going to be…
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The following was published as a “Speak-Out” in the Brookings Register (Brookings, South Dakota) on August 31, 2012. I’m writing in reference to “Transients Living under I-29 Bridge Prompt Concerns,” a front-page article in the…