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CONTACT US OPINION Other Views Phone: (605) 665-7811 (800) 743-2968 A Dream Comes True, News Fax: (605) 665-1721 Advertising Fax: Even After Death (605) 665-0288 Website: Aberdeen American News, Aberdeen (Jan. 7): Sometimes, www.yankton.net great things can come from even the greatest of tragedies. ––––– On Nov. 18, 8-year-old Jayla Marie Rodriquez was killed when she Subscriptions/ was attacked by a pack of wild dogs while she was sledding on the Circulation Pine Ridge Reservation. Extension 104 When the news spread, people got angry. Dogs were rounded up. [email protected] Some were killed; a few were saved. Classified Ads As a result, the already broken hearts of Jayla’s family broke a Extension 108 little more. [email protected] A few weeks prior to her death, Jayla and her mom, Danielle Grif- Capitol Notebook News DEPT. fith, saw a dog walking on three legs through the reservation. Extension 114 “My daughter looked at the dog and became really sad. She said, [email protected] ‘When I get older, I want to bring all the dogs home and teach them Sports DEPT. what it’s like to love and have a family,”’ Griffith said. All of that compassion came from the lips of an 8-year-old. A Range Of Extremes Extension 106 [email protected] We hear kids talk about what they want to be when they grow up Advertising DEPT. all the time. But we don’t think that they will not get the chance to grow up. Extension 122 It’s easy for those less affected — or at least for those who live [email protected] less “in the moment” — to offer cliches like “things happen for a rea- Business Office On Weather And Pay son” and how “the unfortunate happenings eventually make people Extension 119 stronger.” But we see it happening. [email protected] What we’re surprised by is the family’s response — or more so, By Bob Mercer now higher than in most states. South Dakota New Media: the strength that they have found and their newfound determina- State Capitol Bureau voters put our state in the top nine nationally. Extension 136 tion to create something good from something so awful. That is uncommon ground. [email protected] Jayla’s Dream has the possibility of making an entire community PIERRE — The deadly wind and cold make Those still higher are California $9.00, Con- COMPOSING DEPT. — perhaps even an entire culture — stronger and better. South Dakota a mean place to live at times. necticut $9.15, Massachusetts $9.00, New York Extension 129 But on minimum wage, South Dakota suddenly $8.75, Oregon $9.25, Rhode Island $9.00, Vermont The Griffith family is making steady progress on Jayla’s Dream, $9.15 and Washington $9.47. [email protected] which would improve animal control and start a shelter in her doesn’t look so mean. Voters raised the minimum wage Some states don’t have a state * * * memory. to $8.50 from $7.25. The increase took minimum wage. They are Alabama, On Dec. 19, the state approved Jayla’s Dream as a nonprofit. As MANAGERS effect on Jan. 1. Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, of Tuesday, a Go Fund Me account was only $325 short of its $10,000 For an eight-hour workday, that’s South Carolina and Tennessee. Gary L. Wood goal. There are two questions ahead. Publisher $10 more. Family members have helped every step of the way: Jayla’s mom For a 40-hour week, that’s $50 more: First, will the $8.50 help attract Michele Schievelbein designed the logo; her father helped with getting nonprofit ap- The difference between $290 at $7.25, workers to South Dakota? Advertising Director proval; and extended family has assisted with setting up a website, and $340 at $8.50. South Dakota needs workforce a Facebook page and the Go Fund Me account. They also expressed How did people live on $290, or development. This is a priority for Gov. Tonya Schild interest in donating land for the shelter. now $340? Dennis Daugaard (who opposed the Business Manager Others are paying attention, too. Change is happening. It’s understandable some employ- increase to $8.50 and doesn’t believe Michael Hrycko Late last month, Griffith told the Rapid City Journal that she was ers wouldn’t want to pay $1.25 more Bob in a minimum wage) and for many Circulation Director having a hard time finding what her purpose is now. We are not sure per hour to their lowest-wage workers, employers. that it has ever changed. She’s doing what mothers do. When some- unless forced. MERCER And second, will employers suffer Tera Schmidt A majority of South Dakota’s voters from the automatic inflation adjust- Classified Manager thing bad happens, moms have a tendency to do something so that same something bad doesn’t happen to someone else. on Nov. 4 made them do it. ment? Sixteen states now have that Kelly Hertz Our state’s motto “Under God, the people feature. And moms also make their little girl’s dreams come true. We can For nearly 20 years, South Dakota has used Editor only imagine how proud Jayla would be. rule” proved true again. The vote was 150,819 yes and 123,167 no. one of the national versions of the consumer James D. Cimburek That margin is similar to the state constitu- price index as the basis to increase state aid to Sports Editor tional amendment banning gay marriage that public schools through the per-pupil allocation. About This PagE passed 172,305 to 160,152 in 2006. Many school officials say the CPI hasn’t kept Beth Rye up. One indicator is South Dakota’s last-place New Media Director On a geographic basis, the minimum wage The View page provides a forum for open discussion of issues and increase won in 35 counties and lost in 31. ranking for teacher salaries. Kathy Larson interests affecting our readers. Initialed editorials represent the opinion Why would so many voters oppose it? $8.50 Teacher salaries would need a big bump Composing Manager of the writer, but not necessarily that of the Press & Dakotan. was too much. from taxpayers — perhaps $100 million, to get a Bylined columns represent the view of the author. We welcome letters on They didn’t like the automatic inflation ad- $10,000 average raise, requiring another 1 per- Martin Bishop current topics. Questions regarding the Views page should be directed to justment for annual increases. cent sales tax — to get out of the bottom drawer. District Manager Kelly Hertz at [email protected]/. They didn’t want government between em- Voters did that to employers on minimum * * * ployer and employee. wage. Would voters tax themselves for schools? There could be some attempt in the 2015 leg- They already can, locally, with extra property DAILY STAFF islative session to repeal the inflation adjuster. taxes, but opt-outs tend to be more about sur- Melissa Bader IN HISTORY That could mean voters would face the issue vival than improvement. Cassandra Brockmoller again, if the repeal gets referred to the 2016 bal- As for CPI, if it reaches 2 percent this year, Brandi Bue By The Associated Press probe crashed into Comet Tempel 1 in the minimum wage becomes $8.67 for 2016. Today is Monday, Jan. 12, the 12th July 2005.) Democrat Christine Gregoire, lot. A referral would put the repeal on hold until Rob Buckingham then. That’s 17 cents per hour, or $6.80 more per Caryn Chappelear day of 2015. There are 353 days left in winner of the extremely close Washing- the year. ton governor’s race, was inaugurated. At $8.50, South Dakota’s minimum wage is week: A fast-food meal. Randy Dockendorf Today’s Highlights in History: On Britain’s Prince Harry apologized after a Jeannine Economy Jan. 12, 1915, the U.S. House of Repre- newspaper published a photograph of the Jordynne Hart sentatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed young royal wearing a Nazi uniform to a Jeremy Hoeck constitutional amendment to give women costume party. Shauna Marlette nationwide the right to vote. The silent Five years ago: Haiti was struck by Robert Nielsen film drama “A Fool There Was,” which a magnitude-7 earthquake; the Haitian Diana Smallwood propelled Theda Bara to stardom with her government says 316,000 people were The Media Cowards And portrayal of a predatory vamp, premiered killed, while a report prepared for the Cathy Sudbeck in New York. U.S. Agency for International Develop- Kristina Tunink On this date: In 1519, Holy Roman ment suggests the death toll may have Sally Whiting Emperor Maximilian I died. been between 46,000 and 85,000. U.S. JoAnn Wiebelhaus In 1773, the first public museum in and Mexican authorities announced the Brenda Willcuts America was organized in Charleston, capture of Teodoro Garcia Simental, a BY MICHELLE MALKTheIN Cartoondeliberately provocative Jihad “Piss Christ” photos on South Carolina. high-ranking member of the Tijuana cartel Creators.com its website. After the Washington Examiner’s Tim * * * In 1828, the United States and Mex- known as “El Teo.” Carney pointed out the double standards, AP ico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the One year ago: Officials announced Published Daily I have never laughed so bitterly as I did while tried to cover its tracks by yanking the pic. boundary between the two countries to that Iran had agreed to limit uranium More absurdity? The New York Daily News Monday-Saturday be the same as the one established by an enrichment and to open its nuclear pro- reading Thursday’s lead editorial by the great 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain. gram to daily inspection by international pretender-defenders of free speech at The New pixelated a Mo toon carried by Charlie Hebdo Periodicals postage In 1912, textile workers at the Everett experts. Southwest Flight 4013, a Boeing York Times. as if it were pornography. CNN did the same in paid at Yankton, South Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, most of 737 from Chicago, landed at the wrong Paying obligatory lip service to the 2006, when it explained it was censoring the Dakota, under the act of them immigrant women, walked off the Missouri airfield while enroute to Branson. job to protest wage cuts. Jeremy Abbott won his fourth U.S. figure 12 cartoonists and staffers of the Paris offending images “in respect for Islam” March 3, 1979. In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became skating title at the championships in Bos- satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo who and “because the network believes its Weekly Dakotian the first woman elected to the U.S. Sen- ton. At the Golden Globes, “12 Years a were slaughtered for offending Islam, role is to cover the events surrounding established June 6, 1861. ate after initially being appointed to serve Slave” won for best motion picture drama the Times intoned: “It is absurd to the publication of the cartoons while Yankton Daily Press and out the remainder of the term of her late while “American Hustle” was named best husband, Thaddeus. musical or comedy picture. suggest that the way to avoid terrorist not unnecessarily adding fuel to the Dakotian established April In 1945, during World War II, Soviet Today’s Birthdays: Actress Kather- attacks is to let the terrorists dictate controversy itself.” 26, 1875. forces began a major, successful offen- ine MacGregor (TV: “Little House on the standards in a democracy.” And therein lies the cartoon capitu- Postmaster: Send sive against the Germans in Eastern Prairie”) is 90. Singer Glenn Yarbrough My GPS tracker of journalistic lationists’ grand self-delusion. This address changes to Yankton Europe. Aircraft from U.S. Task Force 38 is 85. The Amazing Kreskin is 80. Coun- hypocrisy immediately identified the isn’t about cartoons. Daily Press & Dakotan, sank about 40 Japanese ships off Indo- try singer William Lee Golden (The Oak china. Ridge Boys) is 76. Rock musician Cynthia Times editorial board’s high-altitude Reminder: The First Mo Toons Wars 319 Walnut, Yankton, SD In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. founded Mo- Robinson (Sly and the Family Stone) is were instigated in 2005 by demagogue 57078. location — ensconced atop their own town Records (originally Tamla Records) 71. Actor Anthony Andrews is 67. Movie Mt. Everest of absurdity and self- imams who toured Egypt stoking hyste- in Detroit. director Wayne Wang is 66. Radio com- Michelle * * * unawareness. ria with faked anti-Islam comic strips In 1965, the music variety show “Hul- mentator Rush Limbaugh is 64. Actress attributed to the Danish Jyllands-Posten Memberships labaloo” premiered on NBC-TV with host- Kirstie Alley is 64. Writer Walter Mosley is The Fishwrap of Record priggishly MALKIN of-the-week Jack Jones; guests included 63. Country singer Ricky Van Shelton is refuses to print any of the Islam-pro- newspaper (whose actual cartoons The Yankton Daily Joey Heatherton, the New Christy Min- 63. Radio-TV personality Howard Stern is voking art that cost the brave French criticizing Islam were far more innocu- Press & Dakotan is a strels and Woody Allen. Playwright Lor- 61. Writer-producer-director John Lasse- journalists their lives. In case you for- ous). The real agenda: Islamist thugs member of the Associ- raine Hansberry (“A Raisin in the Sun”) ter is 58. Broadcast journalist Christiane were attempting to pressure Denmark over the ated Press, the Inland died in New York at age 34. Amanpour is 57. Rock musician Charlie got (as its own editorialists have), the Times cow- Daily Press Association In 1975, the Pittsburgh Steelers de- Gillingham (Counting Crows) is 55. Actor ered in 2005-2006 when the Mohammed Cartoons International Atomic Energy Agency’s decision and the South Dakota feated the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 to win Oliver Platt is 55. Basketball Hall of Famer conflagration first ignited. And the publication is to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council for Newspaper Association. Super Bowl IX at Tulane Stadium in New Dominique Wilkins is 55. Entrepreneur continuing with its nuclear research program. Orleans. Jeff Bezos is 51. Actor Olivier Martinez is capitulating again. The Associated Press In 1986, the shuttle Columbia blasted 49. Rapper TBird (B-Rock and the Bizz) Behold this groveling bow to terrorists dictat- From Afghanistan to Egypt to Lebanon to Libya, is entitled exclusively off with a crew that included the first His- is 48. Model Vendela is 48. Actress Far- ing democracy’s standards: Pakistan, Turkey and in between, hundreds died to use of all the local panic-American in space, Dr. Franklin R. rah Forke is 47. Actress Rachael Harris is “Under Times standards,” a newspaper in insane riots under the pretext of protecting news printed in this Chang-Diaz. 47. Rock singer Zack de la Rocha is 45. newspaper. spokesman said in a statement this week, “we Mohammed from Western slight. Courageous In 1995, Qubilah Shabazz, the Rapper Raekwon (Wu Tang Clan) is 45. journalists who stood up to the madness were daughter of , was arrested in Singer Dan Haseltine (Jars of Clay) is 42. do not normally publish images or other mate- * * * Minneapolis on charges she’d tried to Rock musician Matt Wong (Reel Big Fish) rial deliberately intended to offend religious silenced, jailed and threatened with beheading. hire a hitman to kill leader is 42. Singer Melanie Chisholm (Spice sensibilities. After careful consideration, Times Cartoons did not start militant Islam’s fire. SUBSCRIPTION (the charges were later Girls) is 41. Contemporary Christian sing- editors decided that describing the cartoons in Neither did the Bushes, Israel, the Satanic Vers- RATES* dropped in a settlement with the govern- er Jeremy Camp is 37. Rhythm-and-blues question would give readers sufficient informa- es, the Pope, beauty pageants, KFC restaurants (Payable in advance) ment). singer Amerie is 35. Actress Naya Rivera In 2000, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. is 28. Actor Will Rothhaar is 28. Actor An- tion to understand today’s story.” in the Middle East, Mohammed teddy bears or a Carrier Delivery Supreme Court, in Illinois v. Wardlow, drew Lawrence is 27. 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