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Should have resurfaced the bike trail

l3wis December 27, 2025 7Comments

As I pointed out this summer when all the contractors who were fixing the trail and yelling at bicyclists there was this section going to family park that they decided to use crack and seal on and then spray a thin coat of oil over the fixes. As I mentioned at the time, all his does is create 4 bumps instead the existing 2, and they really should fill the cracks with asphalt then resurface. I new this job wasn’t going to last and is like putting a finger in a dam. So imagine my surprise today when I rode this section.

As you can see the crack and seal seeped into the cracks creating 4 bumps now and not fixing the problem, actually making it worse.

I was going to do a video because almost every crack they filled this summer looks like this. This was done about 6 months ago!

Incompetence. No surprise.

I would get a refund from the contractor and use the money to resurface the trail.

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Awwww Tiger

l3wis December 26, 2025 0Comments

I took my mom to the zoo today, it was nice. The animals were pretty active because of the nice weather, but we did laugh about the penguins being indoors. There was supposed to be like a half-price thing thru the holidays but when I asked the clerk she said, ‘Tomorrow’. It reminded me of the sign you see above bars that says ‘FREE BEER, tomorrow.’ Our zoo may be a heavily funded municipal zoo, but they certainly don’t pass those funds on to us. The ZOO should have a FREE day once a month during the summer. I would open every vending stand they have and open more and make your money on vending sales. It makes you wonder who got the payout on the Notre Dame dusty monkey transfer? You damn well know money was exchanged. Probably one of the worst managed issues I have ever seen in this city. Corrupt, not transparent and I think ILLEGAL.

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Trump’s RACIST economic policies are starting to seep into Sioux Falls

l3wis December 22, 2025 2Comments

I knew it was only a matter of time;

The City of Sioux Falls notified LSS South Dakota on Friday, December 19, that the City will no longer financially support the Multi-Cultural Center starting December 31.

The city has supported this institution for 28 years. The yearly grant is $146K. Is it a lot of money? Sure, but just last week the council OK’d a social media contract for $100K with NO objections from council. So the money is there.

I think the city is doing this with pressure from the Governor’s office and ultimately DHS. Notice most of the services are for immigrants. I will agree with the city on one thing, the city really shouldn’t be funding the center, it should be funded thru the state, school district, county and Feds, but as I have told councilors in the past, while the money comes out of different buckets, we are all paying into those buckets, so does it really matter?

This is just racist policies coming down from DC and Pierre because the city knows they can afford this for decades to come. I guess if I was walking out of office in June, the last thing I would want my legacy is being a RACIST. There really is no other way to look at this. The city has the money and has funded this for almost 3 decades! This is not an economic decision. So I guess Trump, Noem and Rhoden are running Sioux Falls under white hoods.

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Seems we are a we bit behind on snow plowing

l3wis November 30, 2025 9Comments

I have been watching how the city will handle snow removal using mostly city workers and equipment. While this snow event wasn’t that bad and most residential streets are passable (especially if you go e-trike) there are challenges. The street crews were out early, which was great, but it seems they are behind on residential plowing;

Zone 2:

North / South Streets plowing will begin at 8 a.m. on Sunday, November 30, 2025
All vehicles parked on north/south streets are subject to ticketing and towing until streets have been plowed or until 5 p.m., whichever is earlier. Although this requirement is in effect only until 5 p.m., any continuing snow removal operations may impact your use of the street for parking.

East / West Streets plowing will begin at 8 p.m. on Sunday, November 30, 2025
All vehicles parked on east/west streets are subject to ticketing and towing until streets have been plowed or until 5 a.m., whichever is earlier. Although this requirement is in effect only until 5 a.m., any continuing snow removal operations may impact your use of the street for parking.

I live in this zone on a N/S route. Normally if the Alert is at 8 AM, I am plowed out no later than Noon. It is almost 4 PM, and they just rode by, and didn’t even bother to use snowgates even though they were on the plow. The next mayor needs to immediately fire any operator who is caught on video NOT using the snowgate. It is city ordinance and when you violate it, it is grounds for termination. This is worrisome for many reasons. It means they are behind, and no surprise, and this wasn’t even a major storm.

I HATE predicting these things, but I knew with fewer resources there was NO WAY the city was going to be plowed out at the same rate when using private contractors and equipment. Hopefully there wasn’t 150 car accidents in one day!!!