Archive for July, 2005
Todd Epp in the news. (not the novak article)
Todd Epp of SD Watch fame made the national news for the second time today. In addition to a mention in the Bob Novak column, I just caught this article on the top of yahoo news this afternoon:
from Man Wants to Create Town for the Deaf:
Todd Epp, a lawyer representing a group of [...]
My Trip to lil’ Ol’ Brookingshat tip to my furniture store
Well I got my house bought yesterday, and I’m in the process of moving my stuff over there this weekend. The first day’s moving entailed bringing clothes and personal items over for seven people (Mine are staying here since I’m still working in Pierre for the forseeable future).
I’m back in Pierre for the day to [...]
UPDATES - No one left without an rss feed…A reader opinion poll
I’ve tracked down the last couple stragglers who didn’t have a readily obvious RSS feed - and they’re fired up into the system. So, I have the most complete RSS system monitoring in the SD Blogosphere - keeping watch over 35 SD related blogs. Don’t see one you know is posting? Drop me a note.
Otherwise, [...]
YEAH BABY!! Have I got a ten questions coming up for you!!
Since Jerry Hinkle at the Holabird Advocate is plagarising my schtick with the SD BlogWatch Man (damn, I should have thought of that), I better get back on track with it. And Jerry, I’m jealous because it was extremely interesting, and thoughtful. I can’t wait to see SDBWM come back.
I just sent off ten questions [...]
I got me a redneck pickup truckAn ACTUAL lesson you can use from the SD War College
When Todd Epp had lunch with me the other day, he saw my truck, and must have thought I was some sort of redneck. Yup! I’m a redneck with two ree-publican bumper stickers on my pickup truck, and I’m married to my cousin, livin’ in Ft. Pierre in a trailer with 6 kids and [...]
Senator Napoli is in the news again.
Did anyone read Dave Kranz’s column in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader this morning? The third story down, Dave had this quote from State Senator Bill Napoli:
State Sen. Bill Napoli, R-Rapid City, is encouraging Sen. Eric Bogue, R-Faith, to challenge Rounds in the 2006 primary.
“I think he could give him a tremendous run [...]
More updates
You should start to see the other sites migrating into aggregated feeds by this weekend. I’ve already started to do it, but I’m on my way back from lunch.
I’m upgraded, and you should see me getting rid of those little boxes that take so long to load.
Read it all at http://dakotawarcollege.blogspot.com - South Dakota’s Best [...]
On the fast track to the ballot box
www.STOP2006.org , the organizational arm of Bill Napoli’s effort to stabilize property tax assessments certainly has an interesting cast of players who are working on the effort behind the scenes. They also seem to have a strong sense of hustle.
In her Rapid City Journal column this week, Celeste Calvitto reported on the petition drive, which [...]
Just for funThe race for Capitol
Just for fun, a couple items out of my collection. I was at home working on a project, and the “Vote for Mitchell” stared at me for hours while I tried to make a video.
Pierre, Huron, Mitchell, Yankton, and another town or two were all involved in the fight to be the next State Capitol. [...]
NEW RSS FEATURE!!! (It’s ALIVE!)
Okay, I think I finally found something I like.
You’ll note the RSS feeds are aggregated at the side. Right now, I have three Blog Feeds each in 3 separate digests. This product is so new, they don’t even have on-line purchasing available yet to upgrade. If you’re in the SDBlogOSphere and if you’re towards the [...]
July 30 SD War College Political ReportAudio Blog
Music Courtesy of www.freeplaymusic.com
I’m going to be busy the next couple days, and after that, I’m moving furniture all weekend. So I’m filing this report early.
Please enjoy, and don’t hesitate to tell me how I can improve it.
Read it all at http://dakotawarcollege.blogspot.com - South Dakota’s Best Political Website.
Re-tooling
I’m noticing that not everyone has their screen resolution set as high as mine, and it’s causing the bars on the left to bleed over into the right.
I should have that fixed tonight.
Read it all at http://dakotawarcollege.blogspot.com - South Dakota’s Best Political Website.
Yay! I suck. Oh, no. That’s bad isn’t it?
Todd Epp was commenting on the Lunch Summit we had yesterday over on his website at SD Watch, and he had one of his loyal readers chime in on my mediocrity. I was going to reply on his site, but it started getting long for a comment, so I’m turning it into a post:
Todd: I [...]
Shilling for birthday gifts - the Day in politics, July 26th
Back about a week ago, I had a reply to the post on the day in politics on July 21 as follows:
Bob Newland said… A landmark date, indeed.My birthday is July 26. I’ll be 57.
Er, ok. Bob Newland was born today, 57 years ago. He’s run for nearly [...]
Changes *UPDATED*
Bear with me as I make a few changes to this site to better integrate some of what’s being published out there into it.
I would also concur with SD Watch that Blog Watch Man needs to continue. Please encourage him to do so.
I’m going to be doing some more experimenting with my blog in the [...]
If I was correct, why do I feel like a jerk?
Well, that sucked.
I earned bragging rights in figuring out one of our little mysteries, regarding SDBWM. He asked for my guess, and confirmed that I was correct. So why do I feel a little empty?
In figuring it out, I didn’t earn anything more than just doing it. More than anything I kind of feel diminished. [...]
Did I say we speculated as to who the Blog Watch Man is?I figured it out.
At the Bipartisan Blogging Summit luncheon today in Pierre, Todd Epp and I briefly talked about who the Blog Watch Man might be. And, it really piqued my curiosity. Sibby has an APB out on it, others have speculated. Basically, everybody is wondering who SD Blogdom’s favorite classroom monitor is. And I think I got [...]
Lunch with the nutty professor. (me)
I had lunch with Todd Epp today in Pierre, and we had a nice conversation. I suppose it was a little awkward for both of us, since we’ve just e-mailed back and forth before, and now we’re sitting down for lunch in person to shoot the bull, and speculate who Blog Watch Man is.
It must [...]
What is the worth of a man?More campaign finance fun!
I could go on about this stuff forever. Mainly, because there’s a huge disparity between how much is spent on legislative campaigns in South Dakota. You have some candidates who will raise tons of money, and you have those that won’t spend a dime.
Think it’s us Republicans who always dominate in campaign spending? Wrong [...]
Thar’s Napoli trouble in them Black Hills.
Political Button collector (and reporter) Dave Kranz noted in his column in today’s Argus Leader that Bill Napoli may face a challenge at the next primary election from Representative Alice McCoy:
A Republican primary is shaping up in Rapid City’s District 35. State Rep. Alice McCoy is term-limited and will run in a 2006 Senate primary [...]
