Opinion/Editorial

Right or Wrong, It’s my Opinion – 2023 Spring Game

On Saturday afternoon, Husker fans, football was back, albeit for just a brief moment, but it was great to see

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Senator Slama proposes bills

Nebraska State Senators reconvened Tuesday, January 17, in Lincoln. Senator Julie Slama introduced several bills into this year’s session. Her

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Editorial – The bullying problem is a community problem

By Nikki McKim The Kids are Not All-right, EVERYWHERE. I hate to say it, but the bullying isn’t just at

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“City Sales Tax”

A bit of history about Nebraska State Sales Tax. January 1984, Nebraska dropped sales tax on food. State sales tax

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Falls City’s Michelle Keithley releases statement on Charles Herbster

STATEMENT FROM MICHELLE KEITHLEY Charles W. Herbster’s Executive Assistant comes forward to tell her side of the story about the

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Right or Wrong, It’s my Opnion.

By Brian McKim In a not-so-surprising turn of events, the Nebraska Cornhuskers lost for the third straight game and the

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Walk Don’t Run – Six months of Parosmia caused by COVID

This week I hit my sixth month of suffering from Parosmia and phantosmia cause by COVID I had in November

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Walk Don’t Run – One Year since the Pandemic started

It’s been one year. I can’t wrap my mind around this whole thing. It still feels so surreal—people wearing masks

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Walk Don’t Run – I had COVID

I’ve kicked around the idea of writing a series on local residents and how they’ve been affected by COVID for

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Walk Don’t Run – 2020 Richardson County Fair

By Nikki McKim This year the Richardson County Fair is doing things a little different. They’re doing a one day

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Right or Wrong, It’s my Opinion.

By Brian McKim Who needs some good news?  Go ahead, raise your hands. I know, I know, we all do. 

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Right or Wrong, It’s my opinion 6/3/20

It was announced last week that many major league baseball clubs would cease paying their minor league players that are

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‘Please stop permitting the use of stigmatic and categorical labels such as obese and overweight’

Recently I received my child’s ESU4 health screening results in the mail. After reviewing the results and literature as it

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‘What a shame’

What a shame we can’t even decorate outside for Fall without some careless person stealing your decorations. We had not

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Hangin’ Out The Warsh — April 22, 2014

Much as been written about Braniff International Flight #250 which crashed in Tony Schawang’s soybean field northeast of Falls City

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Hanging Out The Warsh — December 3, 2013

It’s overdue time to toss a bouquet to the Auxiliary of  Veterans of Foreign Wars Post l765. Auxiliary member Sherry

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Hanging Out The Warsh — October 29, 2013

The “Days of Yore” column a couple of weeks ago noted that several county men had been inducted into their

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Hanging Out The Warsh — July 30, 2013

I know that I have mentioned this before.  Helen Thomas, who died recently at the age of 92, was married

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Hanging Out The Warsh — June 18, 2013

The recent death of Charles Schlicker ended one era of old Company B of the l34th Infantry, Nebraska National Guard.

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Storm Chaser down

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.

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Hanging Out the Warsh 6-4-13

Several weeks ago the Journal ran a photo/story about a dilapidated crate which Louie Fritz of Verdon had found when

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Hanging Out the Warsh 5-7-13

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

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Hanging Out the Warsh 4-9-13

The Sweet Sixteen Louisville-Duke basketball game in Indianapolis and the emotion which took over the arena when Louisville’s Kevin Ware

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Hanging Out the Warsh 3-5-13

This is some turning back the clock stuff. A couple of years back when Del and Shirley Bowers were living

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