South DaCola

Editorial Cartoonist from South Dakota

November 2018

SF School District

Could school for the deaf still become a new Whittier school?

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There have been plenty of rumors swirling around the purchase of the former school for the deaf by a large church in Sioux Falls wanting to add a third location, but they may run into a snag.

According to one of South Dacola’s sources there may be something written into state law that if they sell it, the money goes back to the general fund and the Board of Regents loses it. But if they do a complicated transaction where the church buys a building for CSD, they can do a 1031 exchange and BOR can maintain control of those financial resources.

Another source told me that they may only be able to buy some of the private buildings but would have to lease the land (long term) from the state and BOR.

This may be why Lloyd companies backed out on a previous deal. We’ll see if the church succeeds, if it gets too complicated for them, we may be able to use the space for it’s intended use EDUCATION and a new Whittier school.

Billie Sutton Kristi Noem

Could NOEM be knocked off her pedestal?

l3wis 7Comments

In this story, Sutton pretty much sums up NOEM’s climb of nothingness;

It also helps that he’s a young politician who has stayed in South Dakota while his opponent is a congresswoman who has spent the last seven years casting votes in Congress ― a body that is not popular in any state. He has hammered Noem as an ambitious Washington insider who is running a campaign with money that she transferred from her federal campaign account. This was a practice that was banned in the referendum passed by voters in 2016 and reversed by the Republican Legislature almost immediately after.

“She’s just been climbing the ladder, one elected office at a time,” Sutton said.

She also has been pretty good at wearing trucker hats.

District 9 Elections Michael Clark Michael Saba

SABA gets important endorsement from Walt Bones, Former SD Secretary of Agriculture

l3wis 3Comments

PAID FOR BY VOTE SABA

Mike also has endorsements from former D9 Representative Tom Dempster(R) and Former CEO of Avera Health & Sioux Falls Chamber President, Dr. David Kapaska.

PAID FOR BY VOTE SABA

PAID FOR BY VOTE SABA

PAID FOR BY VOTE SABA

And how can we forget who is running against Saba?

And how about these headlines?

We don’t need more bigots and do nothings in Pierre. VOTE SABA!

Developers Development Sioux Falls TIFs

Record Building Permits only prove TIF’s are NOT needed

l3wis 2Comments

Here we go again, record growth and record building permits;

The city of Sioux Falls has surpassed $700 million in building activity through October, continuing a record-setting pace.

In the first 10 months of the year, the city has issued $701.3 million in building permits, up from $624.6 million for the same period in 2017.

The record for building activity was set last year at almost $739.3 million.

It is further proof that developers in Sioux Falls don’t need incentives like TIF’s, which are gigantic, long term, tax rebates. If anything, with this kind of growth, we should be raising fees and taxes on developers and putting that money towards technical education or better yet tax cuts for the rest of us stiffs.

Just a thought.

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