South DaCola

Editorial Cartoonist from South Dakota

2019

SF City Council Sioux Falls

Will the recommended new Internal Auditor be announced today?

l3wis 0Comments

Usually on Friday afternoon, the Sioux Falls city council announces their agenda for the following Tuesday meeting. They are having a ‘special’ meeting next week to approve the special funding for the Lotta neighborhood (which I think has the full support of the council, though there may be some back and forth about where the money is coming from).

City Hall moles tell me that the agenda will also probably include a resolution to hire the new internal auditor, and here is the kicker, they are moving from a city department to work for the city council.

If this is the case, can you say ‘Conflict of Interest’?

Sioux Falls

Why doesn’t the City of Sioux Falls post (official) meetings to Youtube?

l3wis 2Comments

A question we have asked for a very long time. It didn’t happen in the last administration, and it isn’t happening in the current one.

First off, there is ZERO cost to post meetings on Youtube. The only cost would be converting and uploading the video, which essentially would take an IT developer a couple of minutes to start the process.

While the city does post a handful of produced videos from CityLink to Youtube, most important meetings like the official ones (City Council, boards, press conferences) are not.

In fact the city has gotten into the habit of doing live videos on FB. While this works great for live feeds, it does nothing for people who are not on FB. Those videos should be converted so they can not only post on the city’s official website (not just FB) but in Youtube also (you can also live feed in Youtube).

Many local governments across the state and region post Youtube videos of their meetings, including Brandon, Mitchell, Minnehaha County, SFSD and Omaha. In fact there is very few local governments that don’t use Youtube to post official meetings.

So with all this innovation, why can’t the city of Sioux Falls do something so simple that other governments have figured out? Beats me.

5G

Fiber-to-Home Networks much better than 5G

l3wis 9Comments

Communities across the country are doing the smart thing;

This is a list of citywide, municipal, Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks across the United States. Our Community Networks Map offers an interactive look at the many ways communities have improved Internet access with smart local investments. These communities have some of the best connectivity you can find in the entire country — supporting strong local economies and a high quality of life to ensure they can thrive.

As you can see, just 40 minutes North of us, Brookings, SD has invested in this kind of network. Pretty astounding considering they don’t have an innovation department at city hall 🙂

This is really what Sioux Falls should be investing in. But when you have to carry water for Ironic Johnny Thune-Bag, these things happen.

Hemp

Governor Noem must have a relative in the Nebraska Legislature

l3wis 2Comments

Seems Nebraska has it’s fair share of ‘whackies’ scared that industrial hemp will be smoked;

He said — despite several senators objecting with their own evidence — hemp could be dried and smoked to get high, which would proliferate with acres of the crop growing around the state.

The Kearney senator also said farmers who had reported feeding their livestock hemp witnessed animals born with deformities because of the drug content — an assertion Sen. Carol Blood of Bellevue called ridiculous.

Gee, would it be any different than all the other pharma chemicals and genetically altered crops we put into farm animals now? I would rather eat a stoned steer with 3 eyes. It just amazes me how ignorant some elected officials are.

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