By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2021-08-03
I’d been thinking about Stephen King’s plague novel
The Stand since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. In that novel, a flu virus engineered (unlike the real coronavirus, which is worse than the flu but for which there is no clear evidence of laboratory origins or human engineering) by the U.S. military gets out and kills almost all of humanity in a couple weeks. (And that’s just King’s way of setting the stage for the novel’s real cosmic conflict.) Having read
The Stand in my formative years and thus always carried that dreadful apocalyptic vision in my worst-case-scenario soul, I found some relief as March and April and the rest of our dreadful 2020 dragged along and left most of us alive to worry and complain and wait for vaccines.
Argus Leader wins 34 awards at South Dakota newspaper contest
The Argus Leader won 34 awards at the South Dakota Newspaper Association s annual Better Newspapers, contest, following the announcement of the winners on Thursday afternoon.
The paper took home 16 first place awards in the category of daily newspapers with a circulation of over 7,000 including Best Website, Best Use of Social Media and Public Service.
The Argus Leader also placed first in that category s Sweepstakes award, based on total points accumulated from individual awards earned.
Best Digital Ad Idea/Campaign:
First place - Jennifer Burns