Sometimes my mom asked me to pull back the Creeping Jenny in the farm yard. If it had been up to me, I’d have let it take over and add a splash of green to the place.
In the last few years, some of our leaders have talked of student loan forgiveness or of restructuring the system so debt doesn’t continue to pile up. It’s an emotional issue, for sure.
During this 50th anniversary year of the Rapid City flood, I’ve recalled that brief panic now and then and wondered what it might have been like if social media had existed.
I remembered the fear of the 1957 launch of Sputnik when I read the other day that the Russians had test-launched what a news story in Reuters called “a new, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile.’’