August 2012

Wet dead tree

A South Dacola foot soldier sent me this photo of his wet newspaper. He says it happens quite often. I asked him if it was bagged? He said it was, but they don’t tie the ends or the bag has holes in it so the water gets right in. Ah, nothing like pulling a wet paper out a wet bag.

There is one benefit of reading a wet paper, you can see pages 1-3 without even turning a page 🙂

Instead of focusing on ‘investigative reporting’ I suggest they ‘investigate’ how their carriers are delivering papers.

Sanford’s VP, Dave Knudson, makes a curious statement about the EC

Image: Dave Knudson

Besides the fact that the council is not allowed to make changes to the contract, I found Dave’s statement yesterday during the working session meeting a bit odd (watch the entire meeting);

“We were very surprised to discover last Thursday that we were the only group to submit a bid,” Sanford Health Vice President Dave Knudson said.

What?! Was Dave told that by Smith and the Mayor or is he just flat out misleading the public and council?

On the day of the announcement of the naming rights, the councilors and members of the media were handed a packet that said that there were other companies that had interest in naming rights;

KELO-TV

Avera

Orthopedic Institute

First Dakota Bank

It is also well known that ONE of these entities did make an offer. Rumor has it was around $400,000 a year for 20 years, obviously not even close to Sanford’s offer, BUT, still an offer. What would be the harm in mentioning that an offer was made, without saying who it was?

As Huether was rumored to say at the CNA Surety building ribbon cutting, (Paraphrasing) “There some deals made the public cannot be let in on.” (and have to be made behind closed doors)

Who needs transparency when we have leaders like this? Huh?

COPY OF AGREEMENT: dennyt

UPDATED: Why is the co-owner of one the largest development companies in Sioux Falls sitting on the SF Parks board?

Image: Chamber News

I have known about Pat Lloyd’s appointment for a long time, which was just recently renewed by mayor Huether;

Pat Lloyd – Term Expires – May 2017 *

It has been a concern of mine for quite a while, but after the recent River Greenway improvements in front of a proposed hotel being developed by Pat’s husband, Craig Lloyd, that concern has been turned up a notch.

To be honest with you, I have fielded many complaints about this from former city volunteer board members, citizens and even council members that think this is a clear conflict of interest.

Yah think?

There is something I have known about Sioux Falls for a very long time, it’s who you know, not what you know. Not to sound like Tim Stenga, but there is a select group of people controlling things in Sioux Falls. Do you think it was an accident that the Events Center is going to be named after Denny Sanford? Do you think that any other business in Sioux Falls or even regionally or nationally had a chance?

What shocks me about Pat’s appointment is the blatant in your face conflict of interest. Why would she vote against anything that would benefit her husband’s development business?

Notice who is not sitting on the parks board . . . Joe Six-Pack. There is a reason for that. Joe would never vote for a spray park in front of a hotel.

UPDATE: According to Lloyd Companies website, she is listed as co-owner with Craig, so this even worries me more.

Maybe Pitty Patt quit the SOS’s office so he could do more fat men underwear research?

How ironic, the guy who was in charge of updating the SOS’s webpage, doesn’t understand how internet marketing works;

Did facebook plan to display these ads in this way?

I guess he doesn’t understand how ads are placed on webpages when subscribed to ad servers or when on Facebook.  In order for the ad server for these sites to serve ads to you, they take your cookies and previous machine ID and / or your Facebook login to give you ads based on your ‘interests’.  These ‘interests’ could have been something you were trying to research for an order or just an ‘interest’.

He has some interesting interests . . .

Okay, I added the BK ad, I couldn’t resist.

Pukey is gone

You may, or may not have noticed that my intro page is gone. I may bring it back, but me puking out politicians is no longer.

It is something I have been meaning to change for awhile.

We will miss you Pukey.