were complaining and calling for change. Within a day, Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced a six-part plan that included kiosks, hiring more staff, extended hours and more.
• Sometimes we get jaded and think it is so unlike government to listen to complaints of problems and implement changes. It's nice to see that leadership and response on this issue in a common-sense way. Daugaard said he wouldn't appreciate standing in line two hours to renew his driver's license and others shouldn't do it either.
• When voters elected Daugaard, we called on him to be a leader, and these swift resolutions are a good example of how he steps up to solve problems. We'd like to see that approach become consistent on issues such as low-grade gasoline, but we appreciate the recent driver's license exam solutions.
• Daugaard meets each Monday afternoon with a group of six of his advisers and hashes out issues. That seems like a good model for considering various sides of an issue and making thoughtful decisions. It's a chance for Daugaard to ask lots of questions and formulate sound opinions. It means more than one person is advising the governor.
• Add with the speed at which Daugaard recently responded, that is the kind of leadership all of us appreciate.
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• Rapid City Journal. July 19, 2012
• Review should restore trust
• There is probably no other state agency with more interaction with the public than the Game, Fish and Parks Department. Nor is there another department that takes more heat from the public than the GF&P.
• South Dakota is blessed with an abundance of wildlife, and how that resource is managed is subject to intense public scrutiny and criticism. And there is no more controversial subject than the GF&P's handling of mountain lions in South Dakota.

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