Fiegen To Run To Retain PUC Spot

The newest member of the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission says it has been an interesting, learning year. Kristi Fiegen  of Sioux Falls was appointed last year by Governor Dennis Daugaard to the seat vacated when Steve Kolbeck resigned to take a job in the telecommunications industry. Fiegen says there have been some surprises…

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Fiegen says the commission has been seeing pages of new federal regulations…

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Fiegen says she wants the PUC to be able to streamline many of those new regulations…

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Fiegen is running for election to the remainder of that term on the PUC, and is being challenged by Democrat Matt McGovern.
  
 
 
 
(courtesy WNAX Yankton)