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• "The overall question we need to ask is, how are we going to recruit and retain good teachers?" Waltman said. "I think we all need to sit down and talk about what approaches will work."
• Daugaard also lost on another signature proposal for a new program providing incentive grants for big construction projects to get companies to expand or move to South Dakota. The grants would have been funded with 22 percent of the receipts from the contractor's excise tax. Democrats had argued the money would be better spent on education.
• David Owen, president of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said he and other supporters had a hard time explaining the complicated grant program to voters. But even Democrats who referred the measure to the ballot agree the state needs some kind of incentive program, so a compromise will be sought, he said.
• Owen also thought voters' rejection of some ballot measures wouldn't hurt Daugaard's clout. While they may disagree with him on some issues, they give him high marks for balancing the budget and guiding state government through the economic downturn, he said.
• Owen said the question in his mind was whether people who oppose measures passed by the Legislature will continue to refer so many for statewide public votes.
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• MELLETTE, S.D. (AP) -- Four Michigan men have died and a fifth received life-threatening injuries in a two-vehicle crash in northeast South Dakota.
• The South Dakota Highway Patrol says the Michigan men were traveling east on Highway 20 near Mellette Wednesday morning about 5: 40 a.m. when the vehicle driven by 71-year-old Wesley Allen Frasard failed to stop and was struck by a southbound semi-trick. Killed were Frasard, 68-year-old Ledger John Frasard Jr., 77-year-old William Edward Petrocy, all of St. Clair Shores, Mich., and 69-year-old Nikolaos Andreopoulos, of New Baltimore, Mich. Fifty-two-year-old Thomas Edward Thorngate, of St. Clair Shores, was taken to an Aberdeen hospital with life-threatening injuries.
• The driver of the truck, 50-year-old Doug Elmer Carnahan, of Bottineau, N.D., received minor injuries.
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