...and demographic musing! Mr. Ehrisman posts the results of a new Nielson Brothers poll on the upcoming Sioux Falls event center vote. The voting public remains evenly split, 42% in favor, 41% opposed, and a whole bunch of votes still…
Posts tagged as “culture”
My blog neighbors Jennifer Holsen and Scott Ehrisman have been waging war against the big event center that goes before Sioux Falls voters on November 8. I naturally sympathize with Holsen and Ehrisman and other event center opponents, if for…
The agenda for tonight's Madison City Commission meeting includes a letter penned by Sportsman's Lounge operator Kyle Ackerman... or at least signed by him. A cursory review of the penmanship reveals the text of the letter was written by (gasp!)…
You may recall that earlier this year, the Madison City Commission denied the Madison Area Arts Council's request to block off the south end of Main Street for an evening of live music and other frivolity. Commissioners fretted that blocking…
I shouldn't pay any more attention to The Right Side, part of Gordon Howie's pretend blog empire. Ed Randazzo has closed the comments, which means he isn't really writing a blog anymore. However, I keep an eye on his rantings,…
Via Grist and Smart Planet, I find the Project for Public Spaces has published a guide for determining whether your city is doing development right. The criteria seem to focus on larger cities rather than small rural communities, but we…
The erudite Mr. Gebhart directs my attention to this fine essay on jock culture, which reminds me of the deep cultural reason I don't want to see our high school renovation swallowed up in another plan to build a new…
I'm a terrible concert-goer. I go to White Night 2011 at Prairie Village. I have good South Dakota bands playing live for me... and I end up talking to people the whole time. I chat with an old neighbor lady…