Ugly Table #69
l3wis POINTLESS
Yes, someone at work decided that putting an empty milk carton into a very tiny paper receptacle was a good idea.
Remember, The Ugly Table is almost 90% customers, and 10% co-workers.
S. L. Ehrisman (c) 8/25/12
2012
Open Government in SD? LOL! (Guest Poster)
Just got done rereading Randall Beck’s open government committee article under Ellis’ byline in the Argue Endorser and it made me chuckle. We at South Dacola have been real interested in the open.sd.gov website lately. Who wrote this? Under whose guidance? With the results we see, why bother? It kind of reminds us of putting lipstick on a pig.
Was it worth it?
The reporting / contracting agency is responsible for up-loading their contracts and expenditures when and if they want to. Just go look for a company, law firm, or medical firm you know is doing business with the state.
Try to find the contract and the terms.
How do these outfits get paid? And how many of these companies (individual owners) are donating to the same old yahoos getting elected to run our state every year?
Look for contracts – payments the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, Governor or any other office out of Pierre. You will be hard pressed to find anything out there. So much for the phoniness of ‘open’ SD government. With all the legislative hearings without contract questions, no-bid contracts, hidden contracts, Governor’s club arrangements and other special deals reported out of Pierre we at South Dacola want to be able to trust something out of Pierre. But you know what they say, “You can only get the shit so shiny when you polish a turd (Pierre).”
RIP Neil Armstrong
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LX7WrHCaUA[/youtube]
The heck with the legislature, Maynard for Governor!
I will admit, I don’t know much about Maynard Konechne, but after watching most of the SDPB candidate vids, I liked his the most. He reminds me of my grandpa Carl, Scotland, SD native, in more ways then I can ever imagine. Hardworking, yet realizing helping others is what is most important.
Go Maynard! (but I would lose the tie, all those American flags are making your chest look like an optical illusion)
RC Mayor Sam Kooiker is South DaCola’s Patriot of the week
Sam got praise from me August 1, for lowering garbage rates. Sam is the recipient of my first ever Patriot of the week for putting his fist down on property tax increases;
Rapid City Mayor Sam Kooiker has vetoed the city council’s decision to raise city property taxes next year.
The city council voted 6-4 earlier in the week to increase property taxes by the rate of inflation, an adjustment done to offset rising costs.
Kooiker says the property tax is not needed. The mayor says city sales tax collections are rising more than had been expected and eight tax increment financing districts are expiring.
The inflationary increase in the property tax would bring in an extra $402,000 in revenue to the city.
Sam has it right. If a tax increase is not needed why do it? Every year I see the SF city council and recently the Minnehaha County Commission make this same stupid decision while the mayor sits and brags about the great economic shape we are in. Municipal government’s job is to provide services to citizens from the taxes they pay. Not entertainment or more prosecutions (spending money on crime prevention makes more sense, and saves tax payers $$$).
BRAVO SAM!