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School of Mines to host oil and gas conference
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota School of Mines & Technology will host an oil and gas conference later this month.
• The ninth annual New Horizons Oil & Gas Conference will focus on oil and gas activities in the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, especially as they affect the Williston, Powder River and Denver-Julesburg producing basins.
• The April 23-26 event attracts geoscientists and related professionals from the Rocky Mountain region.
• Geology and geological engineering professor emeritus Alvis Lisenbee says the Black Hills are an ideal location for the petroleum conference. He says rock layers, which produce oil in the surrounding areas, are at the surface, and geologists can walk up to an outcrop and see the material.
• Oil industry representatives from companies in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico also will attend.
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Rounds says Congress needs to regain discipline
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
First in a series of seven stories on candidates for
South Dakota's U.S. Senate seat.
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Former Gov. Mike Rounds says he wants to bring South Dakota common sense to Washington, D.C., and keep Washington out of South Dakota.
• Rounds, one of five Republicans seeking the party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, said Congress is broken and it needs to regain the discipline to get budgets and farm bills done on time so business owners have some predictability. Lawmakers also need to scale back the burdensome regulatory environment to get the economy moving again, he said.
• "To me, that is one of the most very important things that we have to do in order to allow our businesses to start to build and grow again, to get the regulatory agencies off their backs," said Rounds, 59.
• Rounds, president and chief executive of insurance and real estate agency Fischer, Rounds & Associates Inc., spent 10 years in the state Senate from 1991 (Continued on page 17)
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