Tag: Community
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Sanford Bought the Microphone- Paying for its own Q&A about its own Deal
Rapid City SD- On August 13, Mayor Jason Salamun sat on a stage at an Elevate Rapid City luncheon, one of several panelists arranged across a small riser, answering questions about the Indoor Sports Complex rising off Mall Drive. Also on the panel: Domico Rodriguez, executive director of the Rapid City Sports Commission. Caleb Arceneaux,…
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The Tzadik Mount Rushmore Hotel Files for Bankruptcy -And the Paperwork Wasn’t Even Signed
Rapid City SD – The company that owns downtown Rapid City’s Rushmore Hotel & Suites filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on August 13 — the second time in just over a year that a Tzadik-affiliated entity has put South Dakota property into federal bankruptcy court, and the first time it’s happened to a property…
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Radio Silence: Pennington County Stopped Updating It’s Own Incident Page Three Weeks Ago
Rapid City SD – Pennington County has a dedicated page for its cybersecurity incident. It’s the county’s own words, posted by its own spokesperson, with timestamps. It’s also been silent since July 20 — even as the county kept talking to reporters about the same recovery. The Official Record The county disclosed the incident on…
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Shooters on the Sidewalk: Why Rapid City Council President Tamang is Taking a Second Look at Single-Serve Alcohol
Rapid City SD – It started with a walk. Council President Stephen Tamang posted on Facebook about what he found on a recent neighborhood walk: empty vodka shooters, scattered along the route like they’d become part of the landscape. It read like a small, personal observation. It wasn’t. That Facebook post has become the starting…
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Two Sidewalk Waivers, One Agenda: Committee Grills Corporate Request, Punts the Other to September
Rapid City SD – The Rapid City Public Works Committee meeting opened with a chaotic public comment period. Concerned citizen Mark Millar was first to the microphone, telling the committee they were starting to look like a “bunch of clowns” before noting the state is stepping in to fix the deck of the bridge that…
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August 12th Legal And Finance Committee Rundown: Contracts After the Naming Ceremony, Single – Serve Alcohol Restrictions proposed and Tzadik on the Nuisance List
Rapid City SD –The Rapid City Legal and Finance Committee meets Wednesday, August 12, at 12:30 p.m. in Council Chambers. From high-dollar sports complex agreements to serious municipal code enforcement against absentee landlords, tomorrow’s agenda offers a wide window into city priorities and administrative spending. The Sports Complex: Formalizing the Photo-Op The committee is slated…
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The Sidewalks to Nowhere: A Stroll through Rapid City’s Sidewalk Variance Routes
Rapid City SD- Tuesday’s Public Works Committee agenda is, for the most part, the routine business of running a city: a $129,450 tracked conveyor for the Solid Waste Division, a $21,102 change order for Well 13 pump equipment, $235,000 in advertised bids for upgrades at McKeague Field. Sixteen items, most of them numbers nobody will…
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Filed Under a Hotel Tax Board: How Rapid City’s Sports Complex Financing Hid in Plain Sight
Rapid City SD- For nearly a year, the entity actually bonding money for Rapid City’s new sports complex has not been the City Council, not Parks and Recreation, not even the Rapid City Sports Commission whose name is on the original feasibility study. It’s been the Business Improvement District No. 2 District Board — a…
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The Sports Complex, Full Circle? What’s Coming to Wednesday’s Legal and Finance Committee and the History that Got it this Far
Rapid City SD- Next Wednesday, the Legal and Finance Committee will take up a naming rights agreement that would lock Sanford Health’s name onto the city’s new sports complex for the next 21 years. It’s a small procedural step on its face — an origination at Legal and Finance on August 12, ahead of a…