The old 7-Eleven on 18th & Minnesota that has had several failed businesses at that location has just flipped again. Probably hard to see from my shitty cell-phone picture, but they have flowers, grass and butterflies painted in the window.
“Yeah, I would like to take a look at that super-soaker you have behind the case, please.”
And the Obama administration has done just that;
Pro-lifers are horrified at the announcement Monday that the Obama administration has approved a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to guarantee full health insurance coverage for birth control, including the so-called “morning-after†pill, under the Affordable Care Act.
Okay, I’m a little late on this announcement (no pun intended) but it ties in well with this story on Stormland TV (by my new favorite reporter, Ms. Winters) about free and reduced lunches increasing;
SIOUX FALLS, SD – More and more families are applying for free or reduced lunch in the Sioux Falls School District.
Every year, for the past six years, the numbers have increased at the elementary, middle school and high school levels.
Make no mistake folks, over population is the root of most of our problems in this world. Global warming, hunger, war, annoying text messages, can all be blamed on it. Wear a freaking rubber for God’s sake, or for at least my sake.
Do I want Noem as our congressperson? Hell no! In fact I would prefer an indy in that position that does not have to tow the party line. The liberal in me likes Jeff Barth. He is about as liberal as you can get, he is even a little on the nanny-stater side.
He is all about raising taxes to spend on social programs. I don’t have a problem with that, as long as the money is spent wisely. But the fiscal conservative in me doesn’t care much for Mr. Barth.
He recently wanted to raise taxes so he could give raises to county workers. Here’s the deal, I agree they deserve a raise, but don’t we all? What goes around comes around, and while the rest of are taking it in the shorts, the county workers have to also. That’s just how the cookie crumbles. They chose to work in the public sector, the pay should be reflective of society as a whole.
But the thing that worries me the most about Jeff is his chances of beating Noem. In fact I would give her 65-70% of the vote. I hope the Dems dig up someone young, smart, progressive, moderate, and with deep pockets before the primaries. Jeff isn’t going to cut the mustard.
Maybe one of those Weiland kids ain’t busy over the next year?
Is this what Huether means by being neighborly?
Notice there is no description of what is considered a bad pot-hole. Here’s the deal, unless I see rotting corpses or piles of garbage in my neighbor’s yard, I don’t feel the need to nark them off. It’s their property, and if they choose to have grass 8.25″ high, that is their business, not mine. There is such a thing as property rights. But, hey, this is SF city government, an entity that ignores the US Constitution on a regular basis.
This should come as no surprise that the school board wants to belly up to a trough;
The board voted unanimously recently to adopt a resolution urging voters to support the Moving South Dakota Forward group’s initiated measure, which seeks to increase the sales tax rate from 4 percent to 5 percent, splitting the proceeds evenly between public schools and Medicaid providers.
Yet there is NO guarantee the money will go towards these objectives. Remember video lottery? Or better yet the state’s investment fund that has $800 million dollars sitting in it to help with school funding when we come up short? Instead of encouraging increasing a regressive sales tax why not lobby our legislature to use the investment fund? If this makes the ballot, it will fail hard, and we will be back to square one, an irresponsible governor and legislature refusing to use emergency funds for their original intent. It’s time school boards across the state hold down our governor and legislature and give them a good old fashioned apple rub.
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