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• He's worried about making sure his fellow Commerce Committee members understand complicated funding formulas.
• "I think we have a responsibility to pass that knowledge on. Because when we're gone, there's no institutional memory left," Maher said.
• Maher said he is looking forward to a break from the expenses -- both of time and money -- required of his current position. He called his eight years as senator his most expensive hobby.
• After finishing the term, Maher said he'll "go home and be an average Joe." Lust, R-Rapid City, said he will enjoy more time with his family. And Carson, a Mitchell Republican, said he will fill his time with turkey hunting and high school basketball games.
• Rep. Betty Olson hopes to slip into Maher's vacated position after her term expires this year. She said she's already filed her petitions.
• Representative Manny Steel and Marc Feinstein will both leave state politics when their terms expire this year, but they plan to run in different elections.
• Republican Steel said he is excited to run for the Sioux Falls City Council.
• "There's so much action that goes on there and it's grass roots," he said.
• And Democrat Marc Feinstein of Sioux Falls said being a lawmaker has prepared him for a run for a judge seat being vacated by Judge Peter H. Lieberman this year.
• Novstrup is eager to return to lawmaking next year, in his father's seat. He said eight years with 40-day sessions each year does not add up to enough time in the Capitol.
• "Eight years is so fast," Novstrup said.
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