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ings, he said.
• The state court system's computer programs are being upgraded to allow electronic filing and public access to case files, and officials are seeking to help people who represent themselves in court because they cannot afford to hire lawyers.
• Gilbertson said the court system faces challenges in the next decade because many judges will likely retire. He said all the Supreme Court justices and 40 percent of the circuit judge are eligible to retire now if they chose to do so.
• Supreme Court justices are appointed by the governor and then face retention elections for eight-year terms. Gilbertson and three other justices face retention elections next year on the general election ballot.
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Governor appoints Curd to vacant SD Senate seat
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard is appointing Republican Blake Curd to fill a vacant South Dakota Senate seat in Sioux Falls.
• The former state lawmaker will represent District 12, filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Sen. Mark Johnston.
• The governor says that as an Air Force veteran and a physician, Curd has great intelligence and ability and a commitment to public service. Daugaard says the former legislator "can hit the ground running."
• Curd, a 45-year-old orthopedic surgeon, represented District 12 in the state House of Representatives from 2009 through 2011.
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Fertility drugs, nature better than horse roundups
SCOTT SONNER,Associated Press
• RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A scathing independent scientific review of wild horse roundups in the West concludes the U.S. government would be better off investing in widespread fertility control of the mustangs and let nature cull any excess herds instead of spending millions to house them in overflowing holding pens.
• A 14-member panel assembled by the National Science Academy's National Research Council, at the request of the Bureau of Land Management, concluded BLM's removal of nearly 100,000 horses from the Western range over the past decade is probably having the opposite effect of its intention to ease ecological damage and reduce overpopulated herds.
• By stepping in prematurely when food and water supplies remain adequate, and with most natural predators long gone, the land management agency is producing artificial conditions that ultimately serve to perpetuate population growth, the com (Continued on page 20)
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