Apparently, the Rapid City Journal reporter Denise Ross is leaving her political reporting to become an editor and a new woman from New York is coming in:
This year marked my sixth legislative session and my last, at least for the time being. I'll be moving off the politics and state government beat to the night editor job here at the Rapid City Journal. ... South Dakota politics is still the best entertainment going, in my opinion, but I'll be watching it, not covering it, from now on. Celeste Calvitto, a New Yorker who has escaped the East Coast in the Black Hills, will now ask the tough questions.
She notes one of her reporting memories:
The Saturday right between New Year's and the start of the legislative session in 2003, I meet Daschle for breakfast and, his eyes sparkling, he tells me how awesome it would be for South Dakota if he were president. His words say he is "leaning" towards a presidential bid; his eyes say, "I'm in, baby!" The next Monday morning I would say to the newsroom at large that we should get ready to send a team to Aberdeen for Daschle's announcement. I would then leave to move my car and return to have Heidi Bell-Gease tell me that the wire is reporting Daschle has announced he will not run for president. I will think she is playing a joke on me, even after she shows me the wire story on her computer screen.
I don't think Daschle's decision to run for President and then decision not to run has ever been explained very well, which is too bad.
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