Kevin Woster

You could call it a minor miracle. Or maybe a major miracle, now that I think of it.

It’s not a book I would have chosen for myself. It was chosen for me, in an odd way.

I normally vote on Election Day.The real Election Day, or days — that single day designated in each of June and November for voting at familiar polling stations staffed by familiar volunteers.

Amendment C, which was placed on the ballot by the Republican supermajorities in the South Dakota House and Senate, would require that certain ballot measures get at least 60-percent approval by voters to become law, instead of the now-required simple majority.

High school was difficult for my grandniece Lara.Books helped. They helped a lot. A couple in particular.You could say she lost herself in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, except that what she really did was find herself. And find comfort in the words, a way forward in life in a world full of trouble.

I’m m trying to figure out who are we as a state on the abortion issue. Today, I mean. I remember who we were in 2006 and 2008, years when state voters rejected proposed abortion bans by nearly identical margins of about 10 percentage points.

It was an unwritten rule in the Rapid City Journal newsroom that when you stopped in Wall — or just passed through — while on assignment, you were obligated to bring back doughnuts.

This week I’ve been thinking about Jason Ravnsborg, of course. His impeachment by the South Dakota House was big news.But there was other news for me to consider, brought by the Archangel Gabriel.Or at least by a man who said that’s who he was. Is, I guess.

Wait, what? The special South Dakota House committee formed to investigate whether state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg should be impeached refused to hear a key piece of evidence: a presentation by South Dakota Highway Patrol officers who investigated the car-pedestrian accident that killed 55-year-old Joe Boever.

Let’s set aside for just a moment the impeachment discussions about South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg.