There was a mass power outage last night in Northeast Nebraska, and officials there are asking residents to conserve power.
According to Northeast Public Power District, there was a mass power outage in their district due to a substation being out. Northeast Power provides energy to about 8,500 people in Pierce, Thurston, Wayne, Dixon and Dakota Counties.
Because of the extreme heat this week, some substations are taking on more load than normal. Northeast Power is asking their customers to conserve energy throughout the day, to ease demand for power.
Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson of Marion is proposing an expansion of the federal child tax credit to the time before the child is born. According to Radio Iowa, Hinson say that way parents would be able to retroactively claim it in the previous year, after a child is born.
The proposal is part of the “Providing for Life Act” that Hinson has introduced in the U.S. House. It would raise the annual child tax credit to $4500 per child under the age of six and then $3500 dollars until the child turns 18.
The child care tax credit was raised to similar levels in the American Rescue Plan Act, which Hinson opposed, but reverted to $2000 per child at the end of 2021. Parents would need to be employed to qualify for the credit and it would be reduced for higher income households.
The package would also expand some federal food aid for mothers with small children and let parents withdraw their Social Security taxes to finance up to three months of parental leave.
Iowa Rep. J.D. Scholten of Sioux City, says he will once again be playing baseball.
The former professional pitcher, today announced he has signed a contract to play professional baseball in the Netherlands with the Oosterhout Twins, in an eight-team Dutch league with a schedule that runs from April through September.
Scholten said the team, which plays in the southern Netherlands town of Oosterhout, needed an additional pitcher.
Scholten was elected to represent District 1 in the 2022 cycle. He is the lone Democratic legislator from Northwest Iowa serving in the statehouse in Des Moines.
The South Dakota High School Activities Association board this week approved a new rule governing fan ejections and set a $500 fine for schools that employ coaches who have not taken their required courses, according to the Argus Leader.
The group’s Executive Director said member schools have been asking for a fan ejection policy that could serve as a baseline for the actions taken when an adult is ejected from a contest.
The policy says once a spectator is ejected from a contest, that fan is banned from the next contest as well. A second ejection would result in a mandatory four-contest suspension. A third ejection in a single sports season would meant the fan would be suspended from the remaining contests.
Briar Cliff University is remodeling Faber Field. The only field on BCU’s campus is being turfed. They have started to scrape the top layer off and remove the soil underneath.
The goal is to level off the hilled area, to make it easier to host soccer and football games at the
