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square feet with classrooms, concessions, a stage and a large kitchen for 4-H competitions. It includes a 35,000-square-foot exhibit space.
• The state fair director says Monsanto has been a good partner through this donation and other sponsorships.
• The Monsanto Company is global developer of agricultural products including genetically engineered seed brands.
• A spokesman for Monsanto says the company is honored to support 4-H and the future of South Dakota agriculture.
• The State Fair Foundation has raised over half of the $4 million needed for the exhibit hall.
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GOP Senate candidates meet in public TV debate
• VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Five Republicans running for U.S. Senate sparred over health care, the budget deficit and Mike Rounds' record as governor in a televised debate Thursday.
• The debate, which was broadcast on South Dakota Public Broadcasting, was the second meeting for Rounds, state lawmakers Larry Rhoden and Stace Nelson, attorney and Army Reserves Maj. Jason Ravnsborg and physician Annette Bosworth.
• Among the notable moments:
• --AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
• Nelson accused Rounds of supporting President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act, and of benefiting financially from it and serving with former Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle on a panel that studied the law's provisions.
• "If Mike Rounds had opposed Obamacare with a Republican Legislature, we would not have Obamacare in South Dakota," Nelson said. He cited a 2011 story telling how Rounds was co-chairman of a health care initiative with Daschle that was to study provisions of the health care reform law.
• Rounds said he never supported the overhaul and has joined Attorney General Marty Jackley in opposing it in court. He also said the state doesn't have a health exchange because of his opposition to it and that he would seek to repeal it as a member of Congress.
• "We have opposed Obamacare from day one and ... never worked with Daschle," Rounds said. "Obamacare is bad for Medicare."
• --BUDGETS
• A question about whether the federal debt is as big of a problem as it's been made out to be prompted Nelson, Bosworth and Ravnsborg to criticize Rounds' han (Continued on page 15)
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