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Mike Huether Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Mayor Race

Have a drink on me (for $25)

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I got this in my email box last night

Join us for a happy hour benefiting Mike Huether for Sioux Falls Mayor!

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Electric Pulp
4901 S. Isabel Place, Suite 200
(east of Starbucks off of 57th and Western)

Suggested Donation $25 Per Person

While I think a happy hour is a great way to promote yourself, I would like to tell Mike I can get a Hell of a lot of two-fers for $25 at Tommy Jacks, I’m just saying.

And while we are on the topic of Mayor races, let’s talk a little about who I am NOT supporting and WHY; Vernon Brown. While I still don’t think Brown has a chance of Hell of even making it to the runoff, I think the thing that bothers me the most about Vernon’s candidacy is the fact that he thinks he is qualified to be mayor. Why does he think that? All the other candidates besides Brown have either manergerial, economic, governmental experience or all three. In fact if you were rating the candidates on that alone this is how the list would go;

STAGGERS, PETERSON, COSTELLO, HUETHER.

Being a TV journalist and marketing director for a company, that BTW has conflicts of interest with the city, doesn’t make you qualified to be mayor – councilor maybe – but not mayor. Throw in the towel Vernon before you start looking like an indoor pool.

Minnehaha County Sioux Falls

Oh boo hoo the poor country clubbers

l3wis 12Comments

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The recession is so bad, even the super rich in Sioux Falls are feeling the brunt of it

I feel the pain of so many people struggling during this recession. And now this;

The easement affects hole Nos. 14, 15 and 16. The levee expansion will take out all three tee boxes and split the holes in half in some areas. The construction also will initiate a domino effect that will require the club to redo seven or eight holes – a project with a seven-figure price tag, Sanford said.

Oh dear, I would hate for your precious golf course to be tampered with for the sake of some silly flood control.

I say we use eminent domain and take the whole damn course so we can build a road through there once and for all.

Hockey Sioux Falls

Is the Sioux Falls Hockey Association pursuing their own hockey rink?

l3wis 6Comments

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No city control. No taxpayer dollars?

I heard from a very reliable source last night that the SF Hockey Association is in the planning stages to build their own $12 million dollar facility. This is good news for several reasons;

• The association and parents will have control of the facility and will reap the benefits from managing it.

• If successful, it will prove once and for all that these organizations can run a facility on their own without the help of the city and maybe start a trend in Sioux Falls.

• City beauracrats have proven time and time again that they are wasteful when running these kind of facilities.

• It will cost taxpayers of Sioux Falls $0 and for once the people who will use the facility will be the ones paying for it (makes sense? Huh?)

I want to commend the SFHA ahead of time, if this is their plan. It is good to see an organization taking the bull by the horns for once. This is how these special interest projects should be done in Sioux Falls.

SF City Council Sioux Falls State Legislature

THE SIOUX FALLS CITY COUNCIL’S PRIORITIES FOR THE 2010 STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSION

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This is an interesting list, to say the least;

  • The Sioux Falls City Council strongly encourages the legislature to enact enabling legislation which allows municipalities to levy a local option tax, to raise funds for a specified purpose, to include a sunset clause, and to be voted on by the citizens.
  • The Sioux Falls City Council strongly encourages the legislature to ensure adequate funding to meet transportation needs.
  • The Sioux Falls City Council, in conjunction with the South Dakota Municipal League, encourages standards be developed to provide equal 911 service to all citizens and visitors, and encourages cooperative efforts to improve 911 services and efficiency.
  • The Sioux Falls City Council strongly encourages the legislature to continue to support a statewide ban on smoking in all enclosed workplaces, public buildings, restaurants, bars, and casinos.
  • The Sioux Falls City Council strongly encourages the legislature to make it permissible, convenient, and affordable to conduct background checks by establishing and maintaining an internet website containing South Dakota public criminal history for accessing information by any person who intends to access the website to obtain information regarding an applicant for employment, housing, or credit. The South Dakota criminal information would be added/available to the national database.
  • The Sioux Falls City Council strongly encourages the legislature to allow cities and counties to pool their resources through the bid process to aggregately purchase supplies and/or building materials.
Sioux Falls

Plaintiff Guy writes a funny letter

l3wis 0Comments

Before you get all worked up over what PG has to say, you must realize, I detect a bit of sarcasm;

City government has not served us well. A higher sales tax is proposed. Our homes have lost value, but real estate taxes are the same.

With home-rule government, the mayor is king and the council is virtually powerless.

Citizens watched while wind energy production chose Brandon, the oil industry chose Elk Point, Lifelight chose Worthing and a resort chose Larchwood. Principal business interests in Sioux Falls are banking, health care, construction and agriculture. Call centers are laying off, credit card companies have had legislative restrictions placed on them, health care could become nationalized, the construction pace is none, and agriculture is in overproduction with weak crop prices.

It’s looking like Route 60 in Minnesota and Iowa could become a new limited-access highway. Minneapolis-to-Omaha commerce would bypass Sioux Falls.

The downturn started early this year, and there are signs of a population exodus. Will the last one to leave Sioux Falls please turn off the lights?

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