Tag: Municipal government
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Cone-troversy on Main Street – Editorial Cartoon
Rapid City Council Recap 8/17: Sanford Deal Sails Through, Sidewalk Fight Goes the Developers Way
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Rapid City Council Recap 8/17: Sanford Deal Sails Through, Sidewalk Fight Goes the Developers Way
Rapid City SD – Public comment opened the night with its usual range — a resident pushing to beautify the city with flowers, a few of the meeting’s regulars returning to familiar themes, a man asking in apparent earnest whether he’d be arrested for putting a traffic cone on a president’s head downtown, a speaker…
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The Recap Prior to Monday’s City Council: Split Decisions and Supplemental Funds
What’s on the Rapid City Council Agenda for Aug. 17, 2026: Council takes up the Reasonable Accommodation ordinance, a $1.28M appropriation, and decides who actually wins the sidewalk waiver argument. Consent Agenda Highlights Council opens Monday with 20 consent items — five sets of minutes going back to late July. A string of Public Works…
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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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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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Rapid Transit System Opens “Youth Ride Free” Orientation August 17-28
Rapid City SD- Somewhere between the school-supply list and the “is this backpack cool enough” negotiations, there’s one back-to-school line item Rapid City families can actually cross off for free: the bus ride. Rapid Transit System (RTS) is opening up free orientation rides Monday, Aug. 17 through Friday, Aug. 28, letting parents ride along with…
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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…