(Patience: just like the someday-trail from Kadoka, this story goes somewhere!) A couple bicyclists from Southern Nazarene University are riding across America this summer, from the Big Apple to Portland, Oregon. See their trip blog here. They are riding across…
Posts tagged as “Rapid City”
Mr. Sanborn's class warfare argument on the Hanks-vs.-Kooiker mayoral contest in Rapid City got me wondering not just who's voting for whom but who's donating to whom. The Rapid City Journal covered this topic pre-election as did Emilie Rusch on…
Yes, I'm reaching on that last one. :-) The Rapid City runoffs have Michael Sanborn scratching his blog itch hard. Three posts on The Decorum Forum give me three separate reasons to respect this conservative blogger: 1. We Don't Need…
Why can't Madison ever have a mayoral campaign this fun? On Mount Blogmore, Kevin Woster notes that Rapid City mayoral candidate Sam Kooiker continues to brand the man he wants to replace, Mayor Alan Hanks, with the word "fraud," even…
Congratulations to Ritchie Nordstrom for coming out as the top vote-getter in Rapid City's Ward 2 City Council election yesterday. He faces a run-off in two weeks against incumbent and second-place finisher Deb Hadcock. Whichever way the run-off goes, Nordstrom…
Rapid City Mayor Alan Hanks takes the same positive tack in his final mailing as his main challenger in today's election, Sam Kooiker. Unlike Kooiker, Hanks has graphic designers who get that positive means positive: Construction downtown, endorsements... ...and there's…
In effective advertising, word and image work together. So when you hear the words positive and forward-looking, what images come to mind? Smiles? Happy family? Steady gaze toward a brilliant West River sunrise? How about... ...a dark room crawling with…
Bob Ellis returns to writing about real South Dakota politics... but alas! He does so only to peddle hate, deception, and his persecution complex. Ellis crows about the pink flyer being circulated by his fellow fundagelicals to damage Ritchie Nordstrom's…