Play Ball!
l3wis 
November 2016
Sioux Falls City Councilors to attend the National League of Cities conference
Councilors Neitzert, Starr and Stehly will be attending the conference this year next week. I think they will bring back a wealth of great information we can grow on in our city. Hopefully they won’t ’embarrass’ us 🙂
UPDATE: RIP Mr. Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg
One of my favorite song writers passed. Rest in peace sir.
“It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away,” the statement read. “We have lost one of music’s most revered and prolific visionaries. A memorial will take place in Los Angeles at a later date. The family requests privacy during their time of grief.” A cause of death and exact date of death was not given.
From Chuck Luden;
It is sad to learn of Leonard Cohen’s passing.
I bought his 1st LP upon release for $3.27 at Kmart on S. Minnesota Ave. I was a freshman at Augustana then. Followed his career ever since. He was a gracious man and had vision. Had a wonderful conversation with him in Minneapolis a few years ago in the lounge of the hotel I was staying at. We even exchanged gifts. A priceless memory for me. This cell phone photo was shot by my friend Ray Novak.  (I won’t say what Chuck got as a gift, but it was something Leonard hand made, and pretty cool. This was actually the second time Chuck met with him in the same lounge before a show).
Sioux Falls City Councilor Stehly opts to stay out of party politics
This past Tuesday, 4 city councilors decided to attend election parties of their designated parties. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Selberg, Erickson and Neitzert attended the GOP bash while Pat Starr made his way to the weeping room at DEM party headquarters. Starr opted out of speaking at their shin-digs, but Neitzert and Selberg made a brief statements and Erickson was the emcee at the GOP event. Like I said, nothing wrong with supporting your party even if you serve on the council as a supposed non-partisan. But I wondered why councilor Stehly did not attend the GOP event after being invited by Erickson.
Stehly told me she believed in staying non-partisan as a councilor, though she belongs to the Republican party and believes in a lot of their values, “Hey, I represent Republicans as well as Democrats and Independents on the city council. I don’t need to get myself tied up in party politics. We need to care about others and treat them with respect no matter what political party they belong to.”