Amazingly, after four weeks of recess, Rep. Kristi Noem has finally worked up the courage to appear at an open town hall meeting. Intrepid reporter David Montgomery reports South Dakota's lone Congresswoman will hold court on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. at Avera Hall at University Center in Sioux Falls.

As usual, we get barely any notice that this event is happening. Kristi doesn't make it easy for working people to rearrange their schedules and come see her. She doesn't even mention the town hall on her official events page (at least not this morning... but stay tuned: maybe she'll write it in after the fact to make herself look busy). As with her unannounced telephone conferences, Kristi speaks when she finds it convenient, and expects us to all jump when she says so.

Still, this impromptu town hall is better than nothing. If you can get off work, get over to University Center tomorrow afternoon and ask Rep. Noem some tough questions!