Opinion/Editorial

The recent passage of LB 753 has created a serious threat to education across the state of Nebraska.  LB 753 allows Nebraska citizens who owe […]

On Saturday afternoon, Husker fans, football was back, albeit for just a brief moment, but it was great to see the scarlet and cream on […]

Nebraska State Senators reconvened Tuesday, January 17, in Lincoln. Senator Julie Slama introduced several bills into this year’s session. Her Legislative Bill 212 relates to […]

By Nikki McKim The Kids are Not All-right, EVERYWHERE. I hate to say it, but the bullying isn’t just at Humbold Table-Rock Steinauer. It’s everywhere. […]

A bit of history about Nebraska State Sales Tax. January 1984, Nebraska dropped sales tax on food. State sales tax at that time was four […]

STATEMENT FROM MICHELLE KEITHLEY Charles W. Herbster’s Executive Assistant comes forward to tell her side of the story about the Elephant Remembers dinner in 2019. […]

By Brian McKim In a not-so-surprising turn of events, the Nebraska Cornhuskers lost for the third straight game and the fifth time in six contests. […]

This week I hit my sixth month of suffering from Parosmia and phantosmia cause by COVID I had in November 2020. Nearly half of people […]

It’s been one year. I can’t wrap my mind around this whole thing. It still feels so surreal—people wearing masks to do everyday things like […]

I’ve kicked around the idea of writing a series on local residents and how they’ve been affected by COVID for a few months now. I […]

By Nikki McKim This year the Richardson County Fair is doing things a little different. They’re doing a one day only fair instead of their […]

By Brian McKim Who needs some good news?  Go ahead, raise your hands. I know, I know, we all do.  Well, here is a little […]

It was announced last week that many major league baseball clubs would cease paying their minor league players that are still under contract.  The Kansas […]

Recently I received my child’s ESU4 health screening results in the mail. After reviewing the results and literature as it pertains to children as young […]

What a shame we can’t even decorate outside for Fall without some careless person stealing your decorations. We had not just one, but five pumpkins […]

Much as been written about Braniff International Flight #250 which crashed in Tony Schawang’s soybean field northeast of Falls City the night of Aug. 6, […]

It’s overdue time to toss a bouquet to the Auxiliary of  Veterans of Foreign Wars Post l765. Auxiliary member Sherry Maddox organized and ran the […]

The “Days of Yore” column a couple of weeks ago noted that several county men had been inducted into their college’s Halls of Fame.” Mentioned […]

I know that I have mentioned this before.  Helen Thomas, who died recently at the age of 92, was married to Doug Cornell, who grew […]

The recent death of Charles Schlicker ended one era of old Company B of the l34th Infantry, Nebraska National Guard. So far as I know […]

Last Friday Oklahoma was inundated with another round of tornadoes. Through the weekend we learned of a mother and her child being sucked out of their car and killed as well as veteran storm researchers Tim Samaras, his son Paul and Carl Young. Every life lost is as valuable as the last but Tim Samaras was a face a lot of us came to know and respect.

Several weeks ago the Journal ran a photo/story about a dilapidated crate which Louie Fritz of Verdon had found when he was dismantling an old […]

Some bits and pieces. The May—June issue of “Nebraska Life” has an excellent feature story with the headline, “Broadcaster Lance Schwartz Covers Nebraska.” Lance is […]

The Sweet Sixteen Louisville-Duke basketball game in Indianapolis and the emotion which took over the arena when Louisville’s Kevin Ware suffered a horribly broken leg […]

This is some turning back the clock stuff. A couple of years back when Del and Shirley Bowers were living here, just for kicks Del […]