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‘F’ the Cops Man violated his suspended sentence

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It always seems there is another side to the story;

A man accused of resisting arrest and obstructing police earlier this year could receive jail time from a previous case in which he was given a suspended sentence. 

Mark Allen Burgess was in court Thursday morning on a motion to revoke a suspended sentence from a 2017 case, alleging that he broke the terms and conditions of that sentence.

So while, it is legal to flip off a cop, it’s probably not wise to do that when you are are essentially on probation. In fact, if you are on probation, I highly suggest you stay at your home and have ZERO interaction with police.

But what makes this puzzling is why didn’t the SFPD feel the need to fill us in?

Police have said they reviewed the “videoed encounter,” but aren’t sharing the results publicly, citing it as a personnel matter.

I have a sneaky suspicion they ‘knew’ Burgess’ legal situation before they approached him in August, and they were going to make hay with it. As I said before, I highly recommend people don’t call police names, etc., especially when you have a suspended sentence looming over your head. But I also want to know why the SFPD enjoy racking up charges (which ultimately cost taxpayers money) instead of just ignoring jackasses like this? It seems their low tolerance for criticism is costing us money.

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Spencer ‘Duck’ park officially open

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I had to laugh today as I cruised by the Spencer Dog Park, The Sioux Falls Headliner predicted this back in May. I have often felt this was one of the dumbest places to put this park. It’s central location is OK, but this area has flooded almost every year since it has been there. It’s almost like the Parks department wanted to put it there so they have something to cleanup after.

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FCC approves sale of KDLT

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I was actually surprised to hear this, I didn’t think the sale would be approved;

The FCC ruled Tuesday that Gray Television could buy KDLT-TV from Red River Broadcasting Co. Gray announced the $32.5 million deal in May 2018 and with approval from the FCC and Justice Department was able to complete the deal today, according to a KSFY report.

I thought for how long this was taking they may have been some hiccups, but it looks like Gray convinced the FCC they are going to provide us MORE news by acquiring KDLT, even though I think this is about advertising dollars and NOT providing us more news;

The FCC noted that the No. 1 station in the Sioux Falls market, KELO-TV, “has consistently earned a majority of advertising revenue, making it harder for the other stations in the market to effectively compete against it. The applicants note that KDLT-TV is already struggling to maintain a profitable local news operation and that, without relief, ‘it is only a matter of time before KDLT-TV is forced to eliminate its local news.’ ”

So in order for KSFY to compete with Stormland TV they need to buy up more stations? How about better programming and news instead of the latest food truck or dog race story? Oh, Oh, Oh, but wait . . .

Gray has committed to add at least 28 hours per week of local news programming across the two stations, more local news programming than either station currently airs in an average week, according to the FCC. The company also plans to open a news bureau in Pierre, the capital, to provide better coverage of state government and install a state-of-the-art weather radar that will enable it to provide more accurate information about severe weather in the Sioux Falls market, the order states.

So they will have a reporter in Pierre for 40 days? That’s nice. Where do I sign up for that miserable job? And I guess I was a little surprised to hear that neither station was providing state-of-the-art weather reporting. So what? Were they just winging it all these years? I actually get my forecasts from KDLT, because I think they lay it out better.

According to a statement from Gray, there will be no changes at either station for awhile.

LOL. And we won’t be holding our breath either. Bring on the Weiner Dog fashion show!

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