7 thoughts on “Event Center talk on KSOO’s 1140 AM University Viewpoint today”
Be sure to mention that the best plan would include a payback analysis of the downtown site vs. the Arena.
I personally think CSL has provided this, but the TF has buried the info, due to the fact it doesn’t support their crappy reccommendaion.
A smaller, downtown EC would yield the type of payback that could be financed with B&B taxes, just like the Qwest Center.
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Don’t accept a peace from Knobe. You wouldn’t know what was in it or would you!
Listened to you and Ruth yesterday. Good job.I think you were especially point on when you brought the Tyson Center into the discussion. Yes, both cities will compete for one “event”. Nobody is going to make stops in both cities. Especially when a good percentage of those who are among the 6,000 paid in a 10,000 seat center are from Lincoln or Minnehaha county. I still would like to hear what “events” SC has had in 6 years of existence that our own current facility could not have accomadated. Crucial to the discussion. But FUTURE GROWTH some might argue. Is that a written in stone guarantee? Now that the predator credit card companiies have rules to follow, will SF continue to grow?
And KSOO…the talk of Sioux Falls. I’m not certain how long it has been since Randy McDanial left VPU, but shortly after he left is when I stopped listening. The show had a good point, counterpoint angle to it back then.
Ruth seemed like a nice enough person but it always seemed to me she was held back from letting her true opinion out.
Listening in yesterday to more than just your segment she does seem more outgoing…but I sense she, like Rick, only parrots what KSOO has on ALLLLLL DAY LONG prior to VPU.
I was surprised that Ruth let me talk without interuption for so long, but of course I didn’t give her an opportunity. I agree, I’m glad she brought up SC. I have been to some fantastic shows there and constantly tell people that the facility and staff at the SC Orpheum is much better then the facility. She probably regrets going there. I am often amused by people who consider SC dumpy, which it is, but they know how to put on concerts and have fun they are far more culturally advanced then we are in SF.
…they know how to put on concerts and have fun they are far more culturally advanced then we are in SF
As a kid growing up in SF we were always juuuust a little bit smaller than SC. We had Morrells. They had Morrells and a dog track. SC is now absent the dog track, replaced by riverboat gambling. So HOW did we surpass Sioux City in population? The answer lies here.
ROBERT MANNING: So, if you moved your headquarters to another state, you could export the interest rate of that state to any customers.
Citibank relocated its credit-card operations to South Dakota, where it could charge cardholders any interest rate it wanted to. Janklow still has a memento from the deal.
JANKLOW: What we’re looking at now is a piece of ribbon, inter-dispersed on it are credit cards. And this was the groundbreaking on the first building for the credit-card operation with Citibank, which was a heck of a deal for my state.
And a heck of a deal for banks. Wells Fargo, HSBC, Target Card and dozens of others followed Citi to Sioux Falls and immediately jacked up the interest rates on their cards. Card applications went out by the millions and consumers, lured by easy money, embraced the credit-card culture.
CREDIT-CARD AD: If you need a card without going through credit checks, employment verifications or establishing a bank account…You should get one!…But I don’t have a bank account and my credit, you know…It doesn’t matter!
Plastic became the profit-center for big banks. Sioux Falls, where cows still outnumber people, became the back office for the booming credit-card industry. Jim Schmidt is a local county commissioner. He says before the bank boom, white-collar jobs were almost nonexistent in Sioux Falls. Now, roughly 20,000 people work in financial services. That’s almost 15 percent of the population.
Not a hell of a lot to hang your hat on is it? 20,000 cubicle warriors and we think we’re culturally advanced to SC? Not a chance in hell as long as our bread and butter comes from the likes of predators like First Premier, Citi, HSBC, Wells Fargo, just to name a few. Is it any wonder SC is more culturally advanced than SF?
Rocco, Hos and I go there quite a bit, Rocco’s band plays there a lot. The people are a lot of fun. REAL working class folks and super friendly, no bullshit.
Be sure to mention that the best plan would include a payback analysis of the downtown site vs. the Arena.
I personally think CSL has provided this, but the TF has buried the info, due to the fact it doesn’t support their crappy reccommendaion.
A smaller, downtown EC would yield the type of payback that could be financed with B&B taxes, just like the Qwest Center.
Call in!
Don’t accept a peace from Knobe. You wouldn’t know what was in it or would you!
Listened to you and Ruth yesterday. Good job.I think you were especially point on when you brought the Tyson Center into the discussion. Yes, both cities will compete for one “event”. Nobody is going to make stops in both cities. Especially when a good percentage of those who are among the 6,000 paid in a 10,000 seat center are from Lincoln or Minnehaha county. I still would like to hear what “events” SC has had in 6 years of existence that our own current facility could not have accomadated. Crucial to the discussion. But FUTURE GROWTH some might argue. Is that a written in stone guarantee? Now that the predator credit card companiies have rules to follow, will SF continue to grow?
And KSOO…the talk of Sioux Falls. I’m not certain how long it has been since Randy McDanial left VPU, but shortly after he left is when I stopped listening. The show had a good point, counterpoint angle to it back then.
Ruth seemed like a nice enough person but it always seemed to me she was held back from letting her true opinion out.
Listening in yesterday to more than just your segment she does seem more outgoing…but I sense she, like Rick, only parrots what KSOO has on ALLLLLL DAY LONG prior to VPU.
I was surprised that Ruth let me talk without interuption for so long, but of course I didn’t give her an opportunity. I agree, I’m glad she brought up SC. I have been to some fantastic shows there and constantly tell people that the facility and staff at the SC Orpheum is much better then the facility. She probably regrets going there. I am often amused by people who consider SC dumpy, which it is, but they know how to put on concerts and have fun they are far more culturally advanced then we are in SF.
…they know how to put on concerts and have fun they are far more culturally advanced then we are in SF
As a kid growing up in SF we were always juuuust a little bit smaller than SC. We had Morrells. They had Morrells and a dog track. SC is now absent the dog track, replaced by riverboat gambling. So HOW did we surpass Sioux City in population? The answer lies here.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/25/pm_sioux_falls_i/
ROBERT MANNING: So, if you moved your headquarters to another state, you could export the interest rate of that state to any customers.
Citibank relocated its credit-card operations to South Dakota, where it could charge cardholders any interest rate it wanted to. Janklow still has a memento from the deal.
JANKLOW: What we’re looking at now is a piece of ribbon, inter-dispersed on it are credit cards. And this was the groundbreaking on the first building for the credit-card operation with Citibank, which was a heck of a deal for my state.
And a heck of a deal for banks. Wells Fargo, HSBC, Target Card and dozens of others followed Citi to Sioux Falls and immediately jacked up the interest rates on their cards. Card applications went out by the millions and consumers, lured by easy money, embraced the credit-card culture.
CREDIT-CARD AD: If you need a card without going through credit checks, employment verifications or establishing a bank account…You should get one!…But I don’t have a bank account and my credit, you know…It doesn’t matter!
Plastic became the profit-center for big banks. Sioux Falls, where cows still outnumber people, became the back office for the booming credit-card industry. Jim Schmidt is a local county commissioner. He says before the bank boom, white-collar jobs were almost nonexistent in Sioux Falls. Now, roughly 20,000 people work in financial services. That’s almost 15 percent of the population.
Not a hell of a lot to hang your hat on is it? 20,000 cubicle warriors and we think we’re culturally advanced to SC? Not a chance in hell as long as our bread and butter comes from the likes of predators like First Premier, Citi, HSBC, Wells Fargo, just to name a few. Is it any wonder SC is more culturally advanced than SF?
Rocco, Hos and I go there quite a bit, Rocco’s band plays there a lot. The people are a lot of fun. REAL working class folks and super friendly, no bullshit.