“The proposed transaction, if consummated, clearly would allow Gray to operate KSFY-TV and KDLT-TV together to increase efficiencies, reinvest capital resources to improve the stations’ service to their viewers and improve the stations’ abilities to compete with the dominant in-market station – KELO-TV,†Gray said in its federal filing.
“Gray Television has expressed that the merger will increase local news coverage and programming,†Rounds wrote.
Would it? I would think there would be a lot repetition between the two stations (there already is). If a KSFY reporter is getting an exclusive on a ‘BIG’ story, wouldn’t they share that with KDLT? I would think so. So how would we get MORE news? I will admit adding a Pierre office and expanding weather would be good, I’m just not sure eliminating a competing station would give us a different perspective in local news. I have a feeling the FCC has been delaying this merger for a reason.
City Council Vice-Chair and Leader of the RS5, Greg ‘Man-Child’ Neitzert basically said this during the city council open discussion at the informational meeting after Councilor Brekke offered her disappointment in NOT being allowed to make a presentation to the super secret operations committee.
First off, Brekke made the point that ANY city councilor that is fairly elected to the council should have the opportunity to make a presentation to the full council.
Janet’s presentation is about the phone texting ban (basically) during the meetings. She was simply asking for input before putting it as a 1st reading. The chair of the ops committee (that hasn’t probably met in over a year) Neitzert said he consulted the other members and decided he would refuse Janet’s request. First off, that is a flat out lie. Councilor Starr is on the committee and he said he was never asked. Secondly, I’m not even sure they can deny a fellow city councilor an opportunity to make a presentation about anything, and thirdly, I think the meetings should be in public.
That didn’t stop councilor Christine AirBNBrickson from making all kinds of excuses from scheduling conflicts, time limits (which by charter don’t exist) to whether this could be a public meeting.
And while Greg had the audacity to say the council was acting like toddlers (I think Brekke was very professional and kept her cool) HE was the one that acted like the big baby in refusing to allow Janet the opportunity to make the presentation. Kettle meet black.
FINANCIAL DIRECTOR TRIES TO SPLIT HAIRS
Also during the informational, financial director, Shawn Pritchett tells councilor Stehly that water rates are NOT going up but sewer is. I was wondering if Shawn knew that we don’t get separate water/sewer bills and that they are tied into one bill? In other words, your water & sewer is going up, no matter how he wants to spin it. He also said we already made a bond payment on the Bunker ramp. The payments will be between $1.5-1.7 Million per year for the next 15 years.
PRESIDENT OF THE TEA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION . . . UH . . . I MEAN, SF HOUSING DIRECTOR CHELLAC UNRUH GIVES A CONFUSING PRESENTATION
Unruh basically says we will continue to bail out the poorest of the poor making sure developers are making a buck along the way while taxpayers are definitely not maximizing their investment. Same program, different person.
While there were some differences, I didn’t see any major changes. Like stopping global warming, we are beyond a simple fix for affordable housing solutions, but I do think the city could use a 4-tier approach, or a combination of any of these things to get a handle on it. I suggest we start in four different core neighborhoods for a pilot program.
You start with fixing curb and gutter, parking strips, sidewalks, streets and lighting (this would be no out of pocket costs to homeowners and apartment owners in these neighborhoods)
You look for Federal Grants that can help with EPA cleanup requirements like lead paint or mold remediation.
For those that qualify you use community development loans for minor repairs to windows, roofs, furnaces etc. These loans are often low interest to no interest. There are options to be on a payment program or pay off the loan when or if you sell the home in the future.
Probably with a change to state law, we start applying TIF rebates to larger fixes and remodels, like adding bedrooms, fixing basements, etc. to single family homes.
I think the fixes are there, and if you break it down into different programs, the neighborhoods have options.
LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES – DUMP OUR LOCAL PAPER
In one of the council’s priorities, they suggested alternative publishing options for public notices. During public input, I suggested putting them online (which I think they are already) and ditch the newspaper (which basically takes about $70K a year from taxpayers to print the notices in 4 PT type on a Monday or Saturday issue that no one reads). I also suggested for those who don’t have the internet, to have printed copies of the notices at all the public libraries, Carnegie and City Hall. The city has it’s own media/digital department. It would cost them very little to provide printed copies at the libraries. Of course, this will have to change in the state legislature. I think they could simplify the law by giving municipalities carte blanche on how they want handle public notices.
I guess this is how our mayor spends his time, concerned that an elderly lady who is probably oblivious to her image being used for satire (I had to have someone tell me it was her). He really needs to concentrate on the mess in Whittier neighborhood instead.
I will agree with some of the concerns that the artist should have maybe asked permission. She’s not hard to find, I know where she lives because I saw her one day mowing her lawn in a bikini.
I don’t think he was ‘making fun’ of her. The way he drew her took in consideration to not portray her in an unflattering way, and besides, I think anyone at that age who can powerwalk while reading a book is a superhero. I can barely chew gum and ride bike at the same time.
I also think that most acentric people are oblivious to the attention they receive, and probably don’t care. I’m guessing if she even knows about it, she would be happy some of the proceeds from the t-shirt sales is going towards charity.
Sometimes people automatically think that satire is only used to make people look bad or embarrass them, but sometimes, like in this image, it can be flattering. But for the record Paul, the satire twitter page about your selfies, WAS making fun of you, and it was LMFAO funny.
Here’s some fun facts, when the guy ran into Mr. Bendo, he was my neighbor at the time. Let’s just say that ‘drugs’ make you do stupid things. Also, Bikini lady has a male twin that I call ‘Biker Bill’ he can be seen riding around Sioux Falls usually just wearing jogging shorts. He has a permanent tan and bushy white hair.
As the last mayor of Sioux Falls celebrates his 57th birthday tomorrow, some have been wondering when his ‘tell all’ book is coming out.
In a media story from April, he said the book was coming out in June, yet there has been no announcement as to when it will debut.
I find it a little ironic that a guy who pushed through so many projects so fast in order to ‘get things done’ has yet to release his book? A month overdue. It’s too bad he didn’t take this kind of due diligence when pushing to get the EC, admin building, indoor pool and parking ramp done.
First they decided to push a $300 million dollar bond issue, have the finance department hand count the votes, then don’t allow the public access to the ballots.
They pushed this public funding without having a location picked for the new HS, middle school or when and if Whittier would be replaced. They also had NO plans on how to fund staffing these facilities (and still don’t) they also didn’t bother telling the public they planned a new 10 year opt-out (we all know this was in the works all along).
Now they want to draw new boundaries for the school district. While I don’t disagree this needs to be done, it should have been done way before we voted on a bond issue. The SFSD likes to do things A**backwards because they know they wouldn’t get support for the bonding if they would have drawn lines, picked new school locations and proposed a 10 year opt-out before the vote.
The SFSD has to be the sneakiest, most scheming, money grubbin’ local government agency in the state where administrators are only concerned about their own benefits and wages while local restaurants have to have bake sales to buy cheese sandwiches for the poor kids.
It’s going to be entertaining watching the new lines being drawn. Do you think the SFSD will finally become fully integrated or will the trailer park and minority students still have to go to their schools while the Lilly White still will have there’s? Will open enrollment be finally eliminated?
Just like NOT having voting precincts in the Northern half of the city in the past three school elections, I expect the segregation to continue. People who do things a**backwards often have no backbones. Now go eat your cheese sandwich and shut up!
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