Monday,  August 27, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 043 • 24 of 34 •  Other Editions

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• First sites chosen for rural SD medicine program
• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Five towns have been selected as the first clinical sites for a rural health care project sponsored by the University of South Dakota medical school.
• The Frontier and Rural Medicine program, known as FARM, allows USD medical students nine months of training in rural areas. The goal is to increase the number of doctors in rural South Dakota.
• Eligible communities for the clinical sites had to have fewer than 10,000 people.
• The students will be based in Milbank, Mobridge, Winner, Platte and Parkston.

SD ballot question explanations posted online

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant has posted a pamphlet online to help voters understand the measures that will appear on the November ballot.
• Gant says the pamphlet includes Attorney General Marty Jackley's explanations and the pro and con statements submitted for each proposed constitutional amendment, referred law and initiated measure.
• He says the pamphlet is important to help voters understand the measures on the Nov. 6 ballot. Gant says his office will distribute paper versions of the pamphlet, but the online version will also help educate voters.
• South Dakota voters will decide the fate of seven ballot measures. They include a proposed sales tax increase to fund education and healthcare, referred laws dealing with grants to large construction projects and bonuses for teachers, and a balanced budget amendment. Click here to view the pamphlet.

10 Things to Know Today
The Associated Press

• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT):
• 1. GOP CONVENTION POISED FOR ANTI-CLIMATIC OPENING
• At 2 p.m., Romney's convention sputters to life with the banging of a gavel in a mostly empty hall, hardly the opening splash intended for the nation. It will recess 10 minutes later because of Tropical Storm Isaac.

• 2. ISAAC HEADED FOR GULF COAST STATES

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