A commenter last week got me thinking about South Dakotans' political maturity and capability. We put three measures on our 2012 ballot by petition, then voted all three down. We killed two really bad ideas from the Governor and one…
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I've posted a new column at South Dakota Magazine on Initiated Measure 15. The extra-penny sales tax (or, as Steve Sibson would prefer I label it, the 180-million-dollar tax increase) continues to delay the completion of the ballot sitting on…
In a sign that Madison's leaders may be coming to their senses, the Lake Area Improvement Corporation is finally putting together the Downtown Improvement Task Force: Ashley Kenneth Allen is happy to announce that he will be representing this group's…
Five weeks after local boosters proposed a downtown development task force to the Madison City Commission, four weeks after a group of citizens stepped forward to volunteer their services for that task force, and three weeks after the Lake Area…
The thrift store committee still isn't listening. At Tuesday's Lake County Commission meeting, Jerry Johnson said that he and his fellow boosters plan to forge ahead with their plan to build a million-dollar thrift store to replace three buildings in…
I think we're winning. That's a strange thing for me to say after coming home from a Madison City Commission meeting. Madison's leaders often respond to citizen input with defensive and condescending hogwash, and we heard some of that last…
It's this simple: Main Street program! The Madison City Commission meets Monday, July 16th, at 5:30 p.m. By sheer serendipity, the first three agenda items, under "Appearances, Acknowledgements, Correspondence," are the following: Ashley Allen, Eve Fisher, Gayle Maberry, Dean Kooiker,…
Commissioner Ericsson exhorts us to civil, respectful, intelligent conversation. In that spirit... Want to discuss downtown development? Got some ideas that the Madison City Commission didn't want to hear at last Monday's meeting? Then come chat with your neighbors tomorrow…