Heard a talking head call Noem this today, and busted a gut.

This is not the picture you probably see in the ads for condos down by the district on the river.

Nothing more glimmering and beautiful then the stink rolling off this gem downtown.

It amazes me that you could sell a $1 million condo next to this, and the train sirens.

The packing plant is going nowhere and the trains are likely going nowhere.

They do plan to build some quiet zones on 6th street and 8th street, but to be effective, the entire DTSF area needs to be a quiet zone. You will still hear the train whistles from the switching yards and from Cliff and 14th street. In order for the quiet zones to work, it would have to encompass the entire downtown area. Likely not going to happen because of pushback from the Fed DOT and railroads and the cost.

As for the packing plant, that is likely not going anywhere and the smell is getting worse. I have heard rumors that several downtown dwellers have left renting down by Phillips to the Falls due to the smell. Can you imagine investing that much money only to smell burning flesh, urine and manure almost anytime you open your patio door?

It cracks me up to read about all these ‘luxurious’ options in these developments, but every time you walk out the door you smell death and poop.

Downtown has great developmental potential, but not until you get rid of the trains and the stink will it be worthwhile . . . and what about all the places quietly closing downtown? Something developers don’t like to talk about.

Hey there! Jordan Deffenbaugh here, I just want to invite you down to a good ol’ fashioned pancake breakfast this Saturday, April 27th at ICON Lounge/Dada Gastropub (402 N Main Avenue). We are cooking up pancakes and Dada is selling them for $7/stack.

The breakfast is from 9-11am. Just a block away, the Minnehaha County Admin building is doing early voting from 8am-noon. Come out, have some pancakes, hang out with friends, and then go vote.
Hope you can make it! Looking forward to seeing you there, and thank you for your support,

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This is a bad idea for several reasons. The main reason is you don’t want a partisan primary race with a non-partisan race it’s confusing to voters.

Secondly the reason they’re pushing this is because Republicans in the state want to control all the nonpartisan offices like school boards, county commissions, city commissions, etc. So what they’re trying to do is get people to vote in the primaries for non-partisan races because most of those people will be Republicans.

Why?

Because independents cannot vote in their primary and neither can Democrats. Independents can only vote in Democratic primaries so another words Independents and Democrats likely wouldn’t show up to these elections which would guarantee conservative leaning candidates in the non-partisan races. It’s an old hat trick the Repugs have been playing for years.

More candidates and initiatives aren’t going to drive voter participation, government engagement will. If we had open and transparent government in Sioux Falls we would have more voter participation. I am predicting around 5,000 voters will show up on Tuesday, I have some local politicos telling me it is closer to 3,000 voters.

I think the voters are sending a message by NOT voting. We don’t care, because you don’t care.

Poops PAC sent out this postcard today (Jordan’s flyer is also attached in the photo, because I like it 🙂 even though we can’t have public restrooms DTSF because certain people use them to fornicate and intoxicate). Paul seems to miss the point, the public isn’t engaged because you don’t engage them. It really is that simple.

And if you were going to spend all this money to send out a postcard and highlight Thomason’s platform as for the reason to vote, why not just send out an endorsement postcard? I even wonder if Thomason knew about it?

What struck me was how it looked like a Mike Huether campaign postcard. Are these two hanging out? God help us!

UPDATE: So this is becoming more interesting then I thought. I guess the LCC didn’t provide our city clerk with the agenda because Commissioner Joel Arends put the item on the agenda and they were NOT sure of what he was going to say so they decided to hide it from the city council. This WAS NOT the fault of our city clerk. He was simply NOT informed. I guess all the local governments around Sioux Falls like to practice the illegal posting of agendas.

So what’s Arend’s beef? The joint jurisdiction between the city of Sioux Falls and Harrisburg. The commission is saying they have a majority ready to change those boundaries if the city doesn’t play nice about some sewer lines and development.

The issue is that the taxpayers of Sioux Falls have ALREADY invested in the area with infrastructure so why would we turn that over to Harrisburg?

This quiet fight hasn’t really been on the media’s radar, but I’m sure if Harrisburg hosted a food truck Friday on the disputed land, the media would be there.

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If you watch the joint meeting below, you will notice that at the end the LCC decided to present an idea about having quarterly planning meetings with the commission, which I think is a good idea, problem is, they didn’t notice the city council (or did they?) So after they all went on and on about how we need this, councilor Starr points out that the city council cannot take action in the meeting because they were NOT noticed properly.

Once again, another meeting not noticed properly. A rep from Lincoln County said they did send the notice to the city before the meeting . . .

WTH is going on? The LCC properly noticed it.