The recent passage of LB 753 has created a serious threat to education across the state of Nebraska.  LB 753

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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