Hill City Prevailer

What are your dreams?

Published by admin on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 9:51am

What are your dreams? I don’t mean those hazy and confusing stories that dance across your mind at night. I mean your hopes and goals. What do you want to do more than anything else? What makes you excited to get up in the morning and keep pushing through even though it is hard?

Responding to the swamp postcard

Published by admin on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 9:44am

When opening my mailbox last Wednesday I found the hit piece on me that most of you received as well.  It is ironic that the swamp members sent this postcard. South Dakota Strong is a liberal political action committee in Watertown where Sen. Lee Schoenbeck is the head Republican In Name Only (RINO).

Property tax study gets green light

Published by admin on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 9:43am

Good news! Last week at the executive board meeting in Pierre, the board and the Legislative Research Council (LRC) approved the “Property Tax Structure and Tax Burden Study” that I proposed last March. The study will take place over the summer.

FLDS compound goes up for sale

Published by admin on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 9:43am

Yep, the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) compound, located at 11584 Farmer Road outside Custer, is up for sale. It is actually a long way from the closest town of Pringle.  
Of course, everyone knows where Pringle is, right?  Cell service, internet service and GPS is intermittent at best, so here are my directions: Go to Pringle and stop in at the Hitchin’ Rail (or Hitchin’ Post?) restaurant/bar and ask the local patrons how to get to the compound. If you can’t find Pringle, maybe it is best you don’t venture out.

Five thousand dollars

Published by admin on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 10:16am

Five thousand dollars.
That’s my takeaway on what the Hill City Common Council and Planning and Zoning Commission decided that a firefighter’s life is worth.
Five thousand dollars.
 How did I or they come up with that number?

A letter about the sales tax proposal

Published by admin on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 9:03am

For discussion this week, I am, with her permission, printing the bulk of an email sent to me from a District 30 citizen:
“Dear Representative Goodwin, I read with interest your piece in the paper this week that proposes the elimination of private residence property tax via an increased sales tax (or consumption tax). My family wholeheartedly supports your proposal. If South Dakota could pull this off, it would be a revolutionary step in support of private citizen rights in this country.

Responding to the swamp postcard

Published by admin on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 9:02am

When opening my mailbox last Wednesday I found the hit piece on me that most of you received as well.  It is ironic that the swamp members sent this postcard. South Dakota Strong is a liberal political action committee in Watertown where Sen. Lee Schoenbeck is the head Republican In Name Only (RINO).

Answering some of your questions

Published by admin on Thu, 05/12/2022 - 10:32am
Several people have asked me if I am settled in Hill City yet. The answer is yes. I just passed six months with the Hill City Prevailer, and I already feel very at home here. The time has gone by fast, but it has been jam-packed with memories. 

A proposal to eliminate property tax

Published by admin on Thu, 05/12/2022 - 9:06am

Greetings! As promised, here is a proposal to eliminate all residential property taxes statewide. Before showing this proposal, I’d like to preface this by saying I feel our current property tax system is antiquated and quite frankly, broken. It picks winners and losers and is taxing homeowners out of their homes, not to mention the stress and strain it is putting on homeowners.  

Slide until your heart is content

Published by admin on Thu, 05/05/2022 - 10:18am
The other day I was sitting in the hot tub at the Roosevelt (by the way, shout out to the Roosevelt for being an amazing place. If you’ve never been there in my opinion you should check it out because for a very small fee you can swim and hot tub and staycation until your heart’s content).
But anyway, I digress.
I was in the hot tub when I saw a woman get up and head toward the stairs. I would estimate she was in her mid-60s. She was also about 50 pounds or so overweight.