- Park Madness. What's the best park in Sioux Falls? The city parks and recreation department created a Park Madness ballot with a bracket of 64 parks competing for the grand title. You can weigh in and fill out your bracket here.
- Vikings, two ways. The Augustana Vikings are partnering with the Minnesota Vikings to launch a new women's flag football league. Augie is one of six NCAA institutions that's part of this partnership, including Concordia, Gustavus, Bethel, University of Northwestern - St. Paul and University of Wisconsin, Stout. As part of the partnership, the Minnesota Vikings is contributing $140,000 to support the new league and its participating schools.
SODAK SIMPLIFIED
Three things from Pierre
- No eminent domain for carbon pipelines. A bill to prohibit companies from using eminent domain to use land for carbon pipelines is headed to Gov. Larry Rhoden's desk. South Dakota Searchlight has the full story.
- Maybe Medicaid? It'll be up to voters to decide if the state will continue to fund Medicaid expansion if federal funding for the program dips below a certain threshold. Voters voted to expand Medicaid to more low-income adults in 2022. Now, lawmakers are asking voters to weigh in again. Searchlight has more.
- A win for dual credit classes. Lawmakers also voted to continue subsidizing college-level classes for high school students through the dual credit program, defeating a proposal that would've increased the tuition high schoolers have to pay for these classes. Searchlight has more.