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August 2024

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Sioux Falls Mayor TenHaken; ‘I am going to close the Dudley House, because I will end homelessness in Sioux Falls.’ How’s that working out for yah?

l3wis 11Comments

It was quite possibly the most ludicrous campaign comment I have heard in a long time. When Poops was running for his first term he did a Q & A with other candidates at Democratic Forum and when asked what he would do about the Dudley House, he made the above comment.

It is obviously not working out for him.

Also, a rumor that has gotten a lot of traction is that Oklahoma sent a couple busloads of Native American homeless folks to South Dakota because ‘we have more resources’ for Natives. What happened next was a massive brawl between Lakota tribal members and natives from Oklahoma.

How does this happen? Lack of leadership, that we will get to in a moment.

If you talk to downtown business owners they will tell you, it is killing business. I was riding Friday and Saturday night downtown (First Friday) and it was pretty mediocre for crowds. Normally First Fridays downtown in the summer are packed.

So we are talking about homelessness Downtown Sioux Falls and the mayor said he was ‘over it’. That is great leadership. NOT!

But in this article, obviously written by Poops’ media staff, he contradicts his feelings on the homeless, just look at these obvious competing quotes;

“Quite honestly, I’m over it,” TenHaken said.

“I’m very passionate about this issue right now,” TenHaken said.

So you don’t care but you are passionate? Huh? You are so full of it, it oozes from your ears and your staff can’t even scoop the bullsh!t away.

We have a homeless issue downtown, isn’t that obvious? Yet our part-time mayor just throws his hands in the air and says let someone else handle it. He should have been on the phone with our DC delegation to have them send a very curt message to the Oklahoma delegation, “The next time a bus shows up from your state, we are going to refuel it, order takeout for the passengers and send them back.”

That’s leadership, not just doing jumping jacks at a middle school.

This of course is no surprise, our city government is so dysfunctional now I even have folks who don’t follow city politics tell me it’s bad. And the city is not willing to spend any money on the issue, just look how they dropped the ball completely on child care, giving a contract to a private law firm to identify the problem. Are you F’ing blind! Apparently so.

I am also extremely annoyed that pigeon605 thought it was okay to show pictures of transients faces. Awful! They deserve privacy just like the rest of us and I am extremely disappointed in them allowing these pics to be posted (notice the police officer pictures you don’t see their faces).

Audit Leah Anderson Minnehaha County

If you got sometin’ to say, say it to my face

l3wis 4Comments

Elected officials should avoid social media. I used to tell this to Theresa all the time. I will defend Leah on one point; She is an elected official and if she wants to play on TurdBook all day, that is her deal, and they ain’t much you can do about it. Mayor Munson used to say, “Mayor is 24/7, 365 day a year job.” In other words, as an elected official you are always on duty.

Arterial Roads Downtown Sioux Falls recreational Road Funding Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Parks and Rec

UPDATE II: BREAKING: LOCAL TV STATION TRACKS DOWN NEWEST HOT DOG CART!!!

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UPDATE II: As you can see, cars are already hitting and damaging these devices, and they have only been on the street for a couple of weeks. I think this will end badly, mark my words.

UPDATE: As I suspected they are using these bands in the wrong way, they are for protected bike lanes;

Bicycle lanes should feel safe and inviting. But that doesn’t mean they have to be eyesores. The Wave Delineator accomplishes this by quickly and easily creating protected bike lanes, while providing a visually appealing alternative to its traffic cone and flex post counterparts. Ideal for temporary pop-up bike lanes during day- or week-long events, or when communities want to pilot a location for a longer-term protected bikeway.

Now that I have your attention I really wanted to talk about the city’s traffic calming efforts. While I get how this works, these white bands are actually not only a hazard to passing car they are also to bicyclists who are trying to navigate around these contraptions. I am all for the other stuff, but not this floating thingy that I have almost hit twice now. The city has a bad habit of doing this all over town, building pedestrian crossings where the curb slopes are NOT cut out and other hazards like barriers, light posts, weird angles, etc. Can’t wait to see this wrapped around someone’s driveshaft.

We need to educate drivers on pedestrian safety. This city needs to drop about $500K on driver education thru a multiple media platforms. We can paint every intersection like Willy Wonka, but until drivers wakeup, doesn’t matter.

Speaking of idiotic things the city does, after former councilor Neitzert spent months on changing the rec trail ordinances the city employees fart around installing inadequate signage;

Notice how small the MPH sign is. They also have E-Bike crossed out and you have to read the small print to realize you can ride an E1 or E2. And where are the speed signs? I think that the SFPD probably told the Parks Department they won’t be enforcing speeds on the trail, and probably the reason there is NO speed signage along the trail. Can’t ticket someone for speeding if there is no speed limit notice on the trail.

Still waiting for a road biker doing 25 hitting a grandma on her E2 doing 10, then we can have a discussion about speed, braking and physics.

Crime David ZoKaites Media Sioux Falls

UPDATE: David Zokaites has all charges against him dismissed

l3wis 5Comments

UPDATE: David told me this week he did a video interview with a local videographer and after it is edited, produced and posted to YouTube I will share.

I got word yesterday that all charges against David were dropped before the hearing.

Ever since this happened I have had several conversations with David about the incident. Initially, as I understand it there was three charges against David, two were dropped pretty quickly but the 3rd charge didn’t get dropped until this week.

I told David after he gets the all clear to send me a guest post about his side of the story.

One of the reasons I never posted about this when it happened is because I know David, and didn’t think he did it, but felt it must go thru the court system before I comment on it.

I think the media owes David a massive apology jumping to judgement. Domestic disputes occur several times a day in this community, why isn’t the media reporting on that? Oh because David is ‘weird’. Funny how the media will report a candidate for mayor alledgedly involved in a domestic assault situation but won’t say anything about Marshall Selberg ILLEGALLY living out of his district for a year. I guess the David thing is a bigger story.

Once again, our Food Truck media in Sioux Falls can’t see the story in the forrest.

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