Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen reversed course Monday, saying his administration will apply for $18 million in federal funds to provide extra funds for food over the summer for low-income families.
The program will deliver an additional $40 a month in grocery buying funds to 150,000 kids across the state who qualify for free and reduced school lunches.
Pillen says his plan includes a stronger outreach effort to families enrolled in the program which involves providing “touch points.” Pillen hopes to increase children’s participation in summer camps run by the State Department of Education and telling families about other state aid programs.
The Sioux City council Monday voted to approve a resolution on the development and minimum assessment agreement for Siouxland Splash. The waterpark is scheduled to open in summer 2025 along Highway 75.
A group of local investors called Frontline Development, LLC, says it will invest an estimated $12 to $15 million to build the waterpark Sioux City currently has no waterparks. Construction on Siouxland Splash is scheduled to begin this year.
More than 10,000 voter registrations in South Dakota weren't properly transferred to voter rolls due to a computer coding error dating back to 2022, South Dakota News Watch has learned.
Those affected were people who renewed their driver’s license online through the Department of Public Safety and didn’t “opt out” of the voter registration section. A coding discrepancy resulted in a failure of about 10,500 registrations from transferring properly to the Secretary of State’s office, according to DPS officials.
South Dakota has seen a rise in electoral activism from citizen groups demanding access to voting records and pointing to alleged vulnerabilities in state election software. But state officials insisted that no one eligible to vote was prevented from doing so because of this error.
