May 2024

Hey! How about a photo contest

l3wis May 2, 2024 1Comments

I’m to lazy to do the research, but I believe the city had a photography contest about 15 years ago that focused on our Parks System and some of the stuff was amazing.

While I do commend and applaud the Mayor’s 100 day fitness challenge (with all the Fast Food joints in this hole it should be the 365 day challenge) we should have another photography contest and have peeps submit to the SF Arts Council website and have people vote. They could do it in coordination with the city’s planning and parks department.

I ride constantly and a lot at night, I take several pics almost every night of our gorgeous park system. Truly a GEM! And it’s FREE (for now anyway)!

South Dakota Department of Propaganda offers some toons

l3wis May 2, 2024 9Comments

Thanks to southdakotatruth.com for the toons!

Levitt Unveils 2024 Season & 2023 Annual Report

l3wis May 2, 2024 3Comments

While the Levitt finally released their 2023 annual report (which we will get to later) they announced their performance series for the summer today. Tons of great acts, and I still have to do a full dive, but I was exited to hear Supaman is coming. He is absolutely incredible and fascinating. I had a chance to see him at the Black Hills Unity Concert in 2015 and can’t wait to see him perform again. He wears traditional dance garb when he raps.

As for the Annual Report, no surprises, the Levitt has tons of great sponsors and overall community support. But there was interesting tidbit in the report. 79% of revenue comes from contributions (which I always assumed was pretty high) and only 10% is ‘earned’. Which means the claims made by the Alcohol beverage provider is total boloney saying once if he couldn’t contribute a portion of his sales the Levitt would not survive. It was laughable.

NOW, they may put his sales in the contributor bracket, but I don’t see that as possible;

Contributed revenue refers to gifts made freely without receiving any goods or services in exchange. Donations, grants, and noncash donations are examples of contributed revenue. Earned revenue are funds where the person providing money will receive a good or service of equal or greater value in exchange.

I have said charge a $5 dollar cooler fee and only allow canned beer and wine and your contributions would be much higher and peeps would be much happier. The council could pass an ordinance overnight that allows people to bring their own beverages at Levitt events on the caveat that they have to pay a cooler fee.

Oh and one more thing while we are trying to make the Levitt experience better, BAN PETS!!!!!

SD District 13 Senate Race consists of two complete opposites

l3wis May 2, 2024 3Comments

Above you have Ali Rae Horsted, a Democrat running in District 13 Senate race and Sue Peterson, a Right-winger Republican, as her competitor.

Two complete opposites.

A prominent Pierre lobbyist told me last year that if there one legislator he would like to see gone, it was Peterson. I think they said, ‘She is the WORST!’

As for Ali I know her as an ‘aquaintance’ and we always say HI when we see each other. She is just a RAE of Sunshine, super positive, incredibly smart, extremely progressive.

I guess the choice for District 13 voters is pretty simple. You can have the old guard protect Pierre and have more of the same garbage, or as one of the most wealthiest districts in the state you could have a young progressive move in and move your district and the state forward.

*I belive Ali’s brother is Ned Horsted.

Big Bad Bully

l3wis May 1, 2024 5Comments

This didn’t come out during the general election or the runoff, and Jordan Deffenbaugh has all the details, I just heard the second hand version, but the mayor was ‘trying’ to bully him, but it really didn’t work, and he is aware that Jordan knows about it.

So I am not sure if these incidents took place BEFORE Jordan announced he was running or AFTER, but apparently when Jordan was organizing an event for Whittier Neighborhood last Fall he sent out a group email to several non-profits, volunteer orgs, city employees and the mayor.

Well, the mayor thought it wise to do a ‘reply all’ from his mayoral address that taxpayers pay for. He removed Jordan from the email and began to tell these fine folks (several of them are friends of Jordan and took screenshots and metadata on the emails) that Jordan was ‘no good’.

Like I said, I hope Jordan, releases the details of the email, and more importantly he NEEDS to file an ethics complaint against the mayor. He should have done it the second he saw the emails, but it is never to late.

If the mayor really did this using official correspondence while bullying a candidate for office and funding his opponent, it is some really nasty stuff, but it is what Poops has been doing since he ran ClickRain, destroy your opponent, especially if they are not a ring kissing boot licking Republican.