By Gordon Garnos
AT ISSUE: Five major issues have now been identified by South Dakota¹s legislators. Will these issues be resolved by March 17, the final day of this session? A couple of weeks ago I mentioned there were a number of "maintainers" in the Legislature, but what was needed were more "enablers." The major issues have been recognized by these five legislators. We will have to wait until March 18, to find out whether they or others are "enablers."
THERE WAS A KNOT in the little town of Gordian, in Asia Minor, many, many, years ago that had a prophecy that the person who undid the knot would become ruler of the world. Hundreds, maybe thousands, tried, but to no avail until Alexander the Great came along. He supposedly undid the knot. Whether he untied it or slashed it with his saber is a question debated by some historians. Needless to say the rest is history. For untold centuries people the world over, the Gordian Knot represented the difficult, the intractable and often an insolvable problem. There may be some of these knots in Pierre. (Full Article)
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