Our legislators haven’t put much in the hopper yet to deserve a whoopin’ (Senator Monroe’s stealth religion-in-science-class bill is the stand-out culture war distraction filed so far), but more whoppers are coming, I’m sure. You can grill your legislators on whatever bills are coming (and whatever smart bills they fail to bring, like DFP Bill 2017-1 to submit nuclear waste proposals to a statewide vote) at crackerbarrels around the state.
The Associated School Boards offer a statewide crackerbarrel schedule on their website; I copy it here with addenda from eager readers. If I miss any, add them in the comment section!
- Aberdeen: Saturdays, February 4, 11, 25 and March 4, NSU Centennial Rooms, 10 a.m.–12 p.m.
- Alexandria: Saturday, February 4, Library Community Room, 10 a.m.
- Avon: Saturday, February 25, location TBD, 9 a.m.
- Belle Fourche:
- Saturday, January 21, American West Steakhouse, 1–3 p.m.
- Saturday, February 4, Belle Fourche Country Club, 1–3 p.m.
- Brandon: Saturday, January 28, Bethany Meadows Community Room, 9–10:30 a.m.
- Chamberlain: Saturday, February 11, Community Center, 1 p.m.
- Custer: Saturday, February 4, Senior Center, 2:30–4:30 p.m., Custer Senior Center
- Gregory: Saturday, February 11, Gregory Lanes, 10 a.m.
- Highmore: Saturday, February 25, 10 a.m., Hyde County Memorial Auditorium
- Hill City: Saturday, February 4, noon, Little White Church
- Huron: Saturdays, January 21, February 4 & 25, City Hall Commission room, beginning at 9 a.m.
- Kimball: Saturday, February 11, Kimball Fire Hall, 9 a.m.
- Lake Andes: Saturday, February 25, location TBD, :30 p.m.
- Mitchell: Fridays, January 27 and February 17, City Council chambers, beginning at 12 p.m.
- Newell: Saturday, February 11, City Hall, Saturday, 10 a.m.
- Onida: Friday, February 17, 10 a.m., Sully Buttes High School study hall
- Platte: Saturday, February 11, Pizza Ranch, 1 p.m.
- Piedmont: Saturday, February 11, Piedmont American Legion, 2–4 p.m.
- Pierre: Saturday, January 21, Chamber of Commerce Community Room, Saturday, 9–10 a.m.
- Rapid City:
- Saturdays, January 21, February 4 & 25, and March 4, South Dakota School of Mines New Classroom Building, 9–11 a.m.
- Saturday, February 18, Outdoor Campus West, 9–11:30 a.m.—first hour dedicated to natural resource-related questions.
- Redfield: Monday, February 20, Historic CNW Train Depot, beginning at 2 p.m.
- Sioux Falls: Saturdays, February 4, 11, & 25, Ramada Hotel and Suites, beginning at 10 a.m.
- Sisseton: Saturday, January 21, Sisseton High School
- Spearfish:
- Saturday, January 28: High Plains Western Heritage Center, 9–10 a.m.
- Saturday, February 25: BHSU Joy Center, 9–10 a.m.
- Sturgis: Saturdays, January 21 and February 4, Erksine Building, 9:30 a.m.
- Union Center: Sunday, February 19, Bull Creek Restaurant, 2 p.m.
- Vermillion: Saturdays, January 28 and March 4, City Hall, 9–11 a.m.
- Wagner: Saturday, February 25, location TBD, 11 a.m.
- Watertown:
- Saturday, January 21: Lake Area Technical Institute Student Center, Room 514, 9 a.m.
- Saturday, February 11: Winter Farm Show, Fieldhouse, Highland Room, 9 a.m.
- Webster: Saturday, January 28, Webster Armory Guard Room, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
- Winner: Saturday, February 11, Statewide Ag Insurance Building, 8 a.m.
- Yankton: Saturdays, January 21 and February 4 & 25, Avera Sacred Heart Pavilion, 10–11 a.m.
BE THERE and ask your legislators about the Government Accountability and Anti-Corruption Act” known as IM 22.
GAACA?
The IM #22 was a bunch of caaca, that’s for sure.
Grudznick, you’re such a dupe. When this is settled I’ll tell you the full plan Mr. Weiland has and how it completely fooled you, tooled you and schooled you.
Mr. Weiland’s plan, as inferred by his well-known nickname across the state of South Dakota, is to make himself money.
Yeah, right Grud. You’ve got your fingers on the pulse of the position.
Well, Mr. Lansing, I don’t know about that but I do live in South Dakota.
Adding another of your goats to my pen.
Right not worth going I put m question in three times and never got an answer from the republican legislators in Sioux falls.Come and listen What I have to say but don’t say anything just listen.
It doesn’t matter where you live, Grudznick. If you have no new ideas of your own and you are afraid of new ideas from elsewhere, then you’re just a prisoner.
Regarding the statewide vote on radioactive waste disposal, several new bills have been introduced in Congress that may or may not affect DFP bill:
H.R. 474, H.R.431, HR 423, HR 456 and S. 95
Text of the bills are not yet available, but should be soon.
I, for one, would like it if we frequently had elections about nuclear waste storage as long as every one of them started out with the line “As you all know, The Borehole is not about nuclear waste storage.”
Notice for public comments on consent-based siting for storage and disposal of radioactive wastes. I note that these are not rulemaking, probably because there is no statutory authority for consent-based siting.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/13/2017-00670/request-for-public-comment-on-draft-consent-based-siting-process-for-consolidated-storage-and
Porter,
Kevin Woster started a new blog on South Dakota Public Broadcasting called On the Other Hand.
In his very post he refers to grudz’ as “the thing that calls himself grudz’s”
“The Thing” it is.