If you watch the presentation and look at the map above you will see there is a plan to move bus routes out of the ‘lily-white’ neighborhoods permanently, especially North Harrisburg (SE Sioux Falls).
Is this a backdoor way of making sure likely riders of public transit would not have options in affordable or accessible housing in these neighborhoods?
The city council took the opportunity to NOT talk about this obvious glaring problem but to take up most of the Q & A time to complain about batteries for electric buses, because, you know, climate change is a hoax.
If you watch this video and read the online comments you come to the conclusion that the welcoming wagon isn’t being rolled out for Sanford. Several if not most of the people who testified, testified against the merger including advocates of the University medical center, children’s heart medical care, nurse’s unions and mental health officials.
Ellison said his office is conducting its own investigation into the merger plan, along with taking public comment, and expects to make a decision sometime around the end of the month on whether to intervene.
“We’re going to test it for its compliance with antitrust laws, test it for its compliance with the charities laws. And then we’re just going to ask ourselves, is it good for Minnesota?” he said.
As the public meetings and comments on the merger continue it will be interesting to see how the AG rules on this.
The one thing PTH has NOT kept secret; his total disregard for open and transparent government.
You would think after the failures of the bunker ramp due to the lack of financial transparency they would have learned something. Nope;
The city won’t say if or how many developers have expressed interest in buying or leasing the unfinished downtown parking ramp on 10th Street.
“Ultimately, this is how we set up the process,” said Dustin Powers, community development coordinator for the city.
Dustin, just who is this ‘WE’ you speak of? It certainly wasn’t the public that requested this process, or the legislative body, the city council. Maybe it was the mayor’s COS, who is a former executive for one of the largest developers in the city and state. Her former employer has ‘mysteriously’ received millions in tax breaks, land deals, TIFs, etc. since she was appointed. Are they on the short list? We will never know.
It’ll be a lot of behind-the-scenes work until the city chooses a potential buyer/lessee and makes that information public.
Yup. And once again we have learned nothing about the benefits of open government.
It doesn’t fail, when you run a city blog as long as I have, whenever it snows I hear about the removal. I have come to the realization that most people are being nit-picky, but the latest blowback is concerning.
SNOWGATES. By ordinance the city has to use them, unless they decide not to. I know, seems like a pretty big out. During and before the petition drive, Staggers and especially Stehly did extensive research on them, and unless the snow is super wet they work well up to almost 20 inches. The city continues to use a mulligan on them, but they could have been easily used the last two times, which brings us to another problem;
CLEARING INTERSECTIONS. One of the benefits of having snowgates is clearing intersections when the north/south and east/west streets are cleared, instead of creating a massive windrow they can be alleviated immediately.
Looks like the city is supposed to be clearing snow curb to curb.
I have also heard the city has scaled back on private contractor use. I am not opposed to that, and would rather see city union employees getting the OT instead of a private contractor, but you wonder why this relationship has changed?
Isn’t life so wonderful that the only thing we have to bitch about with local government is how they take the white crap away?
I have often looked at things like public transit and snow removal as basic economic development. When people can safely get to work and make wages that’s a good thing. You kind of wonder how many folks were either terminated or reprimanded during this past storm because they couldn’t make it to work?
Local government is easy. Collect taxes, provide essential services.
I asked DTSF recently about the traditional rule of having a beef patty base and if that still applies? They told me that since the Cattleman’s Foundation no longer sponsors the event they have dropped those parameters.
Good to know. I have bugged DTSF for years to bend the rules anyway and allow restaurants to make their burger patty out of any protein base (fish, fowl, beef, pork, lamb, plant, wild game, etc.) can you imagine the concoctions? Nothing beats a lamb burger with tzatziki and feta!
This year one participant is offering a 100% Bison patty (don’t get it cooked over medium rare, or it will taste like a shoe) and another participant, while using beef, is offering a sloppy joe on a hoagie.
Like I said, I am all for dropping the beef patty rule, but it would have been nice to know that before this year’s battle has begun, you wonder what if the participants knew?
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