2025

Sioux Falls Mayor TenHaken needs to learn from the Mayor of Omaha on how to handle the Slumlord Tzadik

l3wis January 22, 2025 2Comments

So look how Omaha is handling this A-Hole;

Officials emphasized that law prevents the city from acting on behalf of tenants until there is a fully written and filed complaint. They can’t act on a YouTube video or a social media post.

City code enforcement can’t come in and inspect anything until a formal complaint is filed with the name of the resident, their contact information, and details about the specific issue the resident is complaining about.

“We cannot file a complaint or take a complaint from a social media post or a video posted on YouTube,” Stothert said.

Notice how this mayor is handling the situation compared to Poops. She is asking the residents to file complaints with her office. SHE IS TAKING OWNERSHIP OF THE SITUATION. Something Poops could never do because he is too busy trying to buy the properties. This is how code enforcement works. If the landlord is a Piece of Sh!t you should have a backup plan, that’s local government. I think the owner of these properties not only needs heavy fines but belongs in a f’ing jail cell. Anyone who treats humans like this is not even equivalent to the dried dog turd on the soles of my shoes. Leaders have courage and are not ‘wimps’ when faced with a challenge, they tackle it and hold the ones at fault accountable, while Poops is worried that a millionaire Floridian doesn’t get a return on his investment(?). I sometimes wonder what Paul does with his day, because he certainly isn’t working . . . or thinking.

Homeless Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls Mayor TenHaken continues his closed government idiocy

l3wis January 22, 2025 0Comments

Boy the hits keep a coming;

While I totally support this forum, I am not sure what Dean Karsky and Poops are going to contribute? That they have virtually done nothing about the issue? But what is even more intriguing is how they rolled this out. I asked two journalists today about when this was originally announced. Both said today, but one said he did know on Monday because he knew someone involved in its production. So you were organizing an event and didn’t bother to tell the public until the day before? Seriously? Don’t think this was an after thought or done by mistake, when you tell people about an event 24 hours before that event it is pretty clear to me you don’t want the public to show up. While I get many orgs were notified, why not notify the people who are affected? THE PUBLIC! Would love to go to this, but it is at an awful time, and since I just learned about it I could not plan for it. Poops, you keep crying about public engagement but at every corner you kick us in the face. Prime example here. I tell folks in the community that you best get used to the panhandlers and homeless because the current administration(s) don’t have the solution or care.

Censorship

Let’s Talk About Trump’s New Free Speech Executive Order

l3wis January 22, 2025 7Comments

This is from the NCAC (National Coalition Against Censorship) which have an interesting take on this;

Yesterday, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” The Executive Order aims to inhibit the government’s ability to censor–or pressure private companies to censor–constitutionally protected speech.

The National Coalition Against Censorship has long argued that the government should never use its power to pressure companies to censor voices that the government cannot censor itself. Last year, when we filed our amicus brief in the case Murthy v. Missouri with the Supreme Court, we argued that the Biden administration had overstepped its bounds in pressuring social media companies to remove speech it deemed misinformation. That brief was filed in service of the nonpartisan principle that our constitution rightly forbids the government from using its resources to silence unpopular viewpoints. At the very heart of our Democracy is the idea that we have a right to hear and engage with dissent over government policy.
We welcome new restrictions on the government’s complicity in censorship. However, the Executive Order is vague, and its true value will be in its application over the coming days, months, and years. The strength of our free expression right is defined by its consistency: free speech must be indivisible, and the government must avoid picking winners and losers in political debates regardless of politics or party and regardless of popularity and power. We hope that this Executive Order signals a true commitment to keeping all voices free from government censors.

This is something I have been telling my friends with Trump, he is so unpredictable that some of his policies might even be good. But you also have to understand that if he sees Libs praising him he will change course. Also, private companies can censor whoever they want to. The 1st Amendment applies to GOVERNMENT censorship, that’s it, full stop.

Elections Mayor TenHaken SF City Council SF School Board Member SF School District Sioux Falls

See what happens with public engagement in Sioux Falls

l3wis January 22, 2025 5Comments

Not sure which SFSD Board Members pulled their arses from their heads, but this was a wonderful way to engage the public about elections, etc.;

Nearly two dozen people attended an informational meeting about what it takes to be a school board member, and how to run for school board, for the Sioux Falls School District on Tuesday night.

Sioux Falls School District Board of Education President Carly Reiter and vice president Dawn Marie Johnson led the meeting, and explained that board members approve budgets and policies, hire and oversee the superintendent, develop and review policies, represent community interests in education and attend appropriate city, state and national events.

Imagine that, when you have a meeting at 6 PM on Tuesday night you can actually get people to attend (though this is at the same time of the council meeting.) You are also helping people to navigate the political landscape. While I appreciate the public engagement, we know that they will be handpicked, funded candidates that Poops and Matt Paulson pull from one of their prosperity gospel churches. The right wingers will likely put someone up to, though they didn’t have much luck the last two elections. I wonder if they also talked about how to file a campaign finance form that is not perjured?

I think it would be great if 24 people ran for school board. That’s what public engagement is about, not hiding in your basement doing jumping jacks.

SFPD Sioux Falls

More Closed Government in Sioux Falls

l3wis January 22, 2025 2Comments

I didn’t watch the police briefing on Tuesday over a long holiday weekend. Since the SFPD public info officer doesn’t usually tell us what is going on, I really don’t watch them anymore. If I wanted to listen to someone telling me nothing I would tune into the Greg Belfrage show. A concerned citizen told me yesterday they tuned in because of an incident in their neighborhood around 1 AM Sunday. If you look at the police log all that is listed was a weapons violation and a case report. The citizen tells me it was much deeper than that. Apparently some juveniles were drinking and shooting guns at a party. Did we not learn anything from the kids who wrecked their car on 18th street last year? I guess not. This would have been a great opportunity to alert the public about teenage drinking parties where guns are involved and ask the public for their help stopping these kind of incidents. I understand you can’t name the juveniles involved but you can certainly chastise and CHARGE the adults that are assisting in providing these kids a place to raise hell. Why wouldn’t you say something? I will say it again; OPEN GOVERNMENT = PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT. I guess the SFPD is doing such a whiz bang job these days they don’t even bother to tell us about who is committing crimes in our community because they have it handled. Sure. U Betcha!

Sioux Falls Mayor TenHaken needs to learn from the Mayor of Omaha on how to handle the Slumlord Tzadik

Sioux Falls Mayor TenHaken continues his closed government idiocy

Let’s Talk About Trump’s New Free Speech Executive Order

See what happens with public engagement in Sioux Falls

More Closed Government in Sioux Falls

You Missed

UPDATE III: A Generational Change? LOL!

Noemzi has a small problem

What is the City of Sioux Falls doing with our Data?

It pays to work in the Sioux Falls City Attorney’s office