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USD med school expanding class size in fall 2015
• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- The University of South Dakota is expanding its medical school class size starting in the fall of 2015.
• USD Sanford Medical School currently admits 56 students to its medical degree program every year. Eleven more students will be added per class during the next four years.
• Dr. Mary Nettleman is the medical school's dean and vice president for health affairs at USD. Nettleman says the expansion is under the directive of a task force created by South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard.
• The Primary Care Task Force is looking into how a potential shortage of rural health care providers could affect South Dakotans.
Pressler looks to restore bipartisanship to Senate
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Former Republican U.S. Sen. Larry Pressler doesn't think his political philosophy has changed much over the years, although the descriptive phrase "moderately conservative Republican" didn't fit after he changed his party affiliation to independent.
• Pressler, who served two terms in the House followed by three Senate terms from 1975 to 1997, is calling himself a "passionate centrist" as he seeks to win his old seat back, this time as an independent.
• Republicans and Democrats are spending too much energy fighting each other, the 72-year-old Pressler said, adding that he wants to return to the chamber to help end the deadlock and restore bipartisanship to Washington.
• "Maybe I can make a contribution toward the end of my life to breaking some of the poisonous atmosphere between Republicans and Democrats in the United States Senate that I've observed," he said.
• Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson announced last March that he was retiring from the Senate seat he has held since beating Pressler in the 1996 general election.
• Five Republicans are seeking the GOP nomination for the seat: former Gov. Mike Rounds, who is considered the front-runner; state Rep. Stace Nelson, of Fulton; state Sen. Larry Rhoden, of Union Center; Yankton attorney and soldier Jason Ravnsborg; and Sioux Falls physician Annette Bosworth. The GOP primary election is June 3.
• The sole Democrat running for the seat is Rick Weiland, a Sioux Falls small busi (Continued on page 19)
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