The Orpheum Theatre and Tyson Events Center in downtown Sioux City have a new partnership with Ticketmaster. As of October 1st, you will be able to buy tickets at OrpheumLive.com, Ticketmaster.com, TysonCenter.com or by visiting the Primebank Box Office in the Tyson Events Center.
The Sioux City Explorers will continue to lease Lewis & Clark Park. Today a selection committee and the Sioux City Parks and Recreation Advisory Board recommended that the Explorers continue to lease the Park, according to the Sioux City Journal.
Sioux City Parks and Recreation Director Matt Salvatore said today that the selection committee and the board unanimously chose the Explorers over the Northwoods League for the ballpark’s lease. The Northwoods League is a collegiate wooden bat summer league.
The matter now goes to the City Council for a vote.
A labor union representing over two thousand graduate students at the University of Iowa says the cost of living in Johnson County outpaces their pay. They are calling on the Iowa Board of Regents to increase pay by 25 and 35 percent depending on the position.
During the Regents’ Wednesday meeting in Iowa City, protesters organized by the union shut down the proceedings.
The UI estimates a 25% increase in graduate student wages would cost the system $13.9 million dollars. Just this month the Regents requested an additional $15 million dollars from the state for the 2025 fiscal year.
The Iowa State Executive Director of the Farm Service Agency says a federal government shutdown would delay Conservation Reserve Program payments, which are issued in October.
John Whitaker tells Radio Iowa if CRP payments aren’t made by October 31, the federal government is required to pay a penalty and add interest onto those checks. Even a week-long federal government shutdown in October would create issues with CRP payments.
Two years ago, the federal government paid $382 million dollars on Iowa CRP contracts that keep the land out of corn and soybean production for up to 15 years.
Farm Service Agency offices will be closed if congress does not pass a spending plan for the next federal fiscal year, which begins Sunday.
