Under the age of 27?

The new 'law of the land' health care bill needs to be discussed on this blog. Allowing your children up to the age of 27 to be on your current health insurance plan is counterproductive. The goal is to get the young and healthy to pay into the insurance pool. Why extend the umbrella of their parent's policy? Obama said everyone in, no one out. Get a job! Drop the Xbox headset and show some desire to earn some cash.

Border war

A crowd of over 300 gathered Thursday evening at the convention center off of exit 48.

The quickly announced special zoning for Meade county residents near the border with the city of Summerset took place Thursday evening. It began with confusion and ended with a question. What happens next?

Meade county officials are proposing a new special zoning committee that would hold the title of number 5 in layers of government bureaucracy. Government chain of command currently is the state of SD, the city of Summerset, the county of Meade, and current covenants of homeowners associations that would be grandfathered in.

Why create something that will have no taxing authority or legal recourse to enforce codes that are on the books? Why get the people excited over a committee that has been hyped with a false sense of bravado?

Is this being created to provide a blueprint for Summerset to annex the area and for the Meade county commission to wash their hands of us?

All in a day's work.

My work routine takes me to a variety of homes, apartments and businesses throughout the day. These pictures were taken at a rental unit in Rapid City. The image to the left is the entrance to the rental. Notice the punched-out sheet rock. At the upper right hand corner is trash piled at the main door. Cost monthly for this tenant is $600 dollars.