On today’s Dakota Midday, host Paul Guggenheimer interviews our own “political junkie” and SDPB News Director, Pat Mack. When will Senator Tim Johnson make the official announcement that he’s running for re-election? Will the legislature take on abortion again in the next session? Will Stephanie Herseth win out in her battle to restore SCHIP funding increases and FISA court rules on domestic spying? Pat attempts to answer these questions and more. Later, Paul interviews with director Charlotte Guyette and cast members of the University of South Dakota production of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” The play opens the USD Theatre Departments’s 2007-08 season on Wednesday night and runs through October 21st.