Gene Hetland

Another effort may be made in the South Dakota Legislature's 2013 session to ban texting while driving across the entire state.

Attempts to pass a statewide ban have been defeated before , but State Senator Mike Vehle of Mitchell said this week he may be ready to try again

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I've written before about how I notice gasoline prices as I drive down any street.

I just do. It's a habit with me.

But one day this week my car was under half-full, so I stopped where the price was $3

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Some studies claim most Americans have regifted, at one time or another.
'Fess up now. Have you ever regifted anything?

I saw a story that says many Americans have--in fact, there are those who would tell you most of us have, at one time or another

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Just our luck. We finally get some snow, not a lot in the Sioux Falls area, but areas to the north of us got more.

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I saw a story recently that made me shake my head in amazement. Again.

Seems Pizza Hut has been working on perfume, or cologne if you will, that smells like pizza.

The story in the New York Daily News says it all started out as a joke with Pizza Hut in Canada (no surprise there)

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America marked the 71st anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks on Friday, with flags flying at half-staff and a gathering of two thousand people at the Pearl Harbor Memorial in Hawaii.

I was born 9 1/2 years after the bombing, but my dad used to talk about it

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I'm the first to admit that I would make a lousy diplomat, and I wouldn't be much of a negotiator, either.

But are we going to go off the fiscal cliff?

And if we are, why?

President Obama and  Congress are supposed to be doing something about it, and it's not getting done

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I saw a story that both surprised and didn't surprise me.

The original report was in a publication called the New Mexico Business Weekly, but it was something we can all identify with.

The report quoted the Centre for Retail Research, which said shoplifting will cost the average family an additional $98 just this holiday season, $8

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They're mentioning the unmentionables at The Banquet in Sioux Falls.

They're collecting brand-new undergarments to give to Banquet guests later this month.

Project Director Madeline Shields tells me many Banquet guests go without socks and underwear because they can't buy them at the thrift stores where they buy most of their clothing

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