July 2013

SD #4 in the Nation for Beer Swillin’ (H/T – GP)

Just think how much of this beer drinking is Old Mil Light since they can’t afford Budweiser on their minimum wage jobs?

This week also marks the release of a new analysis of state-by-state beer consumption data from the Beer Institute, the national trade association representing America’s brewers, beer importers and industry suppliers. The annual ranking can be found in its entirety below. The analysis found that the five states that consumed the most beer per capita in 2012 were:

North Dakota – 45.8 gallons of beer consumed per person in 2012

New Hampshire  – 43.9 gallons of beer consumed per person in 2012

Montana – 41.0 gallons of beer consumed per person in 2012

South Dakota – 38.9 gallons of beer consumed per person in 2012

Wisconsin – 36.2 gallons of beer consumed per person in 2012

For the full per capita consumption ranking, please click here.

A ‘Mysterious’ Land Swap

Before everyone calls the Whambulance and starts crying that I am am cooking up new city government conspiracy, STOP. I am posting about Item #6 on the city council agenda out of curiosity (DOC: TheGreatLandSwap ).

This is the first time on an agenda I have seen such a ‘swap’.

1) Why does Schoeneman own land that our bike trail is on to begin with?

2) Why not just sell the land to the city? Why swap it?

3) Why would they ‘give/swap’ land that is adjacent to the RR relocation project that hasn’t been completed yet?

Just questions. No conspiracies . . . yet.

Our local media doesn’t really get it (H/T – BG)

‘Just another schlump looking for the easy story?’

So a KSFY reporter decides to show up to a parade named after our mayor, where MMM will be handing out free sandmiches, then asks people in attendance to grade the mayor;

It was a simple survey of three questions, each asking if Mayor Huether has delivered on his three campaign goals. Campaign goal number one: keep moving Sioux Falls forward.

The questions were ‘topical’ in nature. I would have asked them about transparency and open government. I would have asked them about catering to special interests, I would have asked them about personal gain. Afterall, anybody can tell someone to fix a street, it’s our money, yah know. While I will give the mayor high grades on fixing the streets, it really is just smoke and mirrors.

I also wonder if KSFY tracked anybody down yesterday who was not a Huether fan? Like I said, this was a parade named after him, so that is highly unlikely that those peeps were in attendance, except for me 🙂

The thing that bothers me the most is our local media putting themselves in positions where they know they will get no negative press. There also seems to be a bit of ignorance.

I watched the AL promote the F’ck out of Tour SF this past couple of weeks, GREAT! I love riding bike, and I will give kudos to Managing Editor Patrick Lalley for his passion for bike riding in SF. But Pat, I really think you need to focus on your job, you know, editor. He likes to brag about the ‘100 Eyes’ show being the #1 political talk show in the region, so you would suspect he would know his ‘politics’. On the last episode he mentioned that Sue Roust still works for the SOS, and did not realize she was only a temp employee. WOW!

And then the AL wonders why they have to go door-to-door to try to scrape up subscriptions. Have they hit your neighborhood yet?