May 2024

City of Sioux Falls Executive Order 157

l3wis May 28, 2024 2Comments

This one has to do with employee privacy and monitoring.

I’m sure some constitutional lawyers could have fun picking this apart. I think this all came about when MMM banned my blog from city computers, in which Staggers complained and the site was NOT blocked to councilors sitting on the dais at the meeting.

The only part I would question is on the third page, 2nd paragraph. While someone could certainly alert HR that a city employee is posting something less then flattering about the city on social media, I don’t think they can ‘monitor’ private social media sites and I am surprised a city employee hasn’t challenged this crap rule written on a bar napkin (that’s what I call EO’s because they don’t mean crap).

City employees don’t give up their 1st Amendment rights once they become employed by the taxpayers, and I would also like to say that city employees have a DUTY to whistleblow when they see corruption, you are protected by Federal Law.

Calling your co-worker a fat bitch on Facebook? Not a good idea. Turning in other city employees for corruption, embezzlement, etc., always good.

HyVee figures it out in Iowa

l3wis May 27, 2024 3Comments

So this is a intriguing story of how HyVee decided to help out a community just shy of 150K when they closed;

In a statement, Hy-Vee says “No business wants to close a location and that certainly includes Hy-Vee. Over the past several weeks, we have listened to community leaders and residents about the impact of our store closures… Unfortunately, these three stores have each been losing significant amounts of money for several years, and they are simply not feasible for us to operate any longer.”

Funny how HyVee does this in a smaller community in Iowa when they get called out on their crap, but in Sux, we just shrug our shoulders.

Have Pancakes and Help Design a Community Mural this Saturday!

l3wis May 27, 2024 2Comments

Painting & Pancakes: A Mural Design Discussion

Imagine a vibrant mural that tells the unique story of our Whittier neighborhood, painted by the very hands that call this place home. We are thrilled to invite you to Painting & Pancakes: A Mural Design Discussion, an event where Whittier stakeholders can come together to share ideas, enjoy delicious food, and contribute to the creation of a stunning piece of public art, that will be located on the north side of Wesley United Methodist Church

Date: Saturday, June 1st
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Wesley United Methodist Church (1700 E 6th St), Next to Meldrum Park

Delicious Breakfast: Enjoy pancakes, coffee, and sweets with your neighbors.

Family-Friendly: Bring the whole family! Kids are encouraged to join the discussion and share their ideas for what is painted.

Meet the Facilitators: Local artist Zach DeBoer will lead the discussion and help guide our mural design.

Community Collaboration: This mural will be painted by Whittier neighbors and stakeholders during the Rock the Block party happening June 22nd, made possible by Habitat for Humanity.

Contribute to Our Community: Help create a beautiful mural that reflects our neighborhood’s spirit.

Meet Your Neighbors: Make new friends and strengthen community bonds.

Express Your Creativity: Everyone’s ideas are welcome, and no artistic experience is needed.

Join us at 10:00 AM on June 1st for a morning of creativity, conversation, and community spirit. Let’s transform the north wall of Wesley United Methodist Church into a beautiful work of art that celebrates Whittier.

For more information, please contact Jordan Deffenbaugh at jordanjdeffenbaugh@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you there!–

Jordan J Deffenbaugh
Community Liason

Community Revitalization Collective

Is the South Dem Party getting compensated by the Repugs?

l3wis May 26, 2024 3Comments

I say this jokingly but you gotta kind of scratch your head and wonder with all the numbers and decreases with the party. Also, the SDDP recruited a candidate for Minnehaha County Commission, but because of a screwup with sigs or something, they are running as an Indy (they are a really good candidate, just unfortunate they can’t run under a party banner).

I left the party shortly after 911, after Tom Daschle voted for authorization to go into Iraq. I said, ‘Once this party believes in diplomacy again, I will return.’ Guess what? Still an Indy.

There is a group of local rabble-rousers that lean ‘old-school left’ that have a little drinky party on Friday nights, I sometimes attend. The organizer sends out an email each week about the state of politics, mostly statewide and nationally and he always has an update of how many registered voters the party has lost over the past week in the state. Well, that inflamed one of the former party execs who decided to do a respond all to the group trying to downplay the disastrous leadership while NOT addressing the real problem, LOSING PARTY MEMBERS.

I won’t even say who this person is, they have already embarrassed themself enough.

They also email responses with fake names so they can troll a group that literally just drinks beer and Diet Coke and bitches about how big of babies the current SDDP is. That’s about all that is happening, but ironically, they probably accomplish more then the Exec Board of the SDDP. Maybe they should move the meeting to the Dox?

You can’t have a party with no party goers. Some in the SDDP don’t seem to understand that concept, or maybe they do, and that is why they are cashing checks from the SD GOP 🙂 because unless you are actually TRYING, it is hard to lose members that fast and frequent.

I think the SDDP has a traitor . . . will be interesting to see who it is.

Homestead Fireworks

l3wis May 25, 2024 3Comments

This was the end of the show that lasted at least 45 minutes with a short intermission.