$50M is Beginning for $200M for Scholarships
Students attending South Dakota s six public universities will now have a huge incentive to stay in the state with a new need-based scholarship program. $50 million has been gifted by First PREMIER Bank, PREMIER Bankcard, and T. Denny Sanford to jump-start the program.
In addition to the gift, it is hoped that it will be the start of what will be a $200 million endowment to fund future need-based scholarships in perpetuity, according to a recent news release.
Schools in South Dakota include South Dakota State University, University of South Dakota, Dakota State University, Black Hills State University, Northern State University, and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Augustana University, and the University of Sioux Falls.
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More GOP lawmakers enlist in Trump effort to undo Biden win
By Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick The Associated Press,Updated January 2, 2021, 10:19 p.m.
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Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spoke at a campaign rally for Senator Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., on Saturday in Cumming, Ga.Brynn Anderson/Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) â A growing number of Republican lawmakers are joining President Donald Trumpâs extraordinary effort to overturn the election, pledging to reject the results when Congress meets next week to count the Electoral College votes and certify President-elect Joe Bidenâs win.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Saturday announced a coalition of 11 senators and senators-elect who have been enlisted for Trumpâs effort to subvert the will of American voters.
John Bolton Says Trump Aims to Tear Apart the GOP as Their Feud Continues
On 1/2/21 at 11:25 AM EST
Former national security adviser John Bolton has said that Donald Trump s attacks on senior GOP figures shows that the president s ambition in the final weeks of his presidency is to tear apart his party.
Bolton was fired from the Trump administration in September 2019, and penned an explosive memoir of his time in the White House,
On Saturday, Bolton shared on Twitter a CNN article that focused on Trump s attack on Sen. John Thune, the second-highest ranking Republican in the Senate.
Trump started the New Year by tweeting how he would like to see South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem take on Thune in the 2022 primary and that South Dakota wants strong leadership, NOW! Trump also described the Senate majority whip as a RINO the derogatory term that stands for Republicans In Name Only.
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Avera Tyler hospital staff members hold a community testing event on July 15 in reaction to Lincoln County spike in COVID-19 cases after the July Fourth weekend.
MARSHALL Â A lot can happen in the space of a year and at times, it seemed like 2020 was really putting that idea to the test.
The Independent’s top stories of the year include national and international events that touched, and in some cases drastically changed, life in southwest Minnesota. At the same time, area communities continued to move forward with school and municipal building projects that had been a long time in the planning.