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• The City Council last week accepted some referral petitions and scheduled a July 9 election on some aspects of the Riverwalk Landing project. Council members rejected a petition on zoning changes and a deferred development fee, saying the petition was ambiguous and also dealt with administrative actions that couldn't be subjected to a public vote.
• Organizers say the new petition is clear. Mayor Sam Tidball says city lawyers will be reviewing it.
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Sioux Falls completes cleanup from April storm
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Officials in Sioux Falls say they have finished the cleanup from a three-day ice and snow storm in April.
• The storm that began April 9 downed trees, tree branches and electrical lines in the region, knocking out power at one point to more than 115,000 people.
• Public Works Director Mark Cotter on Tuesday said a citywide branch pickup effort was complete.
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DOE report faults $450K payments to ex-Rep. Wilson
JERI CLAUSING,Associated Press
MATTHEW DALY,Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson collected nearly half a million dollars in questionable payments from four federally funded nuclear labs after she left office, the Energy Department's inspector general says in a new report.
• Wilson failed to provide documentation for the work she did to earn $20,000 a month from the Los Alamos and Sandia national labs in New Mexico from January 2009 to March 2011, the report said. Officials at the Nevada Test Site and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee acknowledged there "were no deliverables" associated with $30,000 the two labs paid Wilson. And Sandia and Los Alamos appear to have asked Wilson to help them secure more work for the labs, an apparent violation of her contract, the report said.
• In total, nearly $450,000 in questionable payments were identified, the bulk from Los Alamos and Sandia.
• The contractors that run the labs billed the payments to the government, "even though they did not receive evidence that work performed under the agreements had been completed," the report said. The payments were fully reimbursed by the government.
• The contractors, which include Lockheed Martin, Bechtel and other companies, (Continued on page 18)
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