Burglaries, thefts from cars up from last year
Jul 11, 2009 | 10:27 pmSchools turn to advertising to compete for students
Jul 11, 2009 | 10:27 pmHastings book sale hits it out of the park for shoppers
Jul 11, 2009 | 10:38 pm
| July 2009 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Su | M | Tu | W | Th | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
SEARCH EVENTS
SEE MORE CALENDAR
Columnists
Grand Island Bloggers
Poison Ivy Herbal RemedyI can not believe how wonderful the poison ivy is growing this year! At my boys' scout camp, they are sending kids home in droves, due to the high ... What really constitutes a “car accident” in Mexico City anyway?Yesterday marked my first car accident (if you can even call it that) in Mexico City. Frankly, I am somewhat amazed that it took this long for my car ... Follow the Independent on Twitter
Independent Forums
New flights out of airportThem folks at the airport appear to be working pretty hard to get more flights in there. Their biggest task at hand is separating themselves from the other airports in the area while at the same time keeping the price somewhat competitive with Omaha. If people in Kearney can get the same flight out of Kearney then why would they travel to Grand Island? I believe there's enough demand in Central Nebraska for air service that they should be able to get off that federal subsidy but its only going to happen by pulling in people from all of central nebraska and not loosing them to other smaller airports. It's going to take money to get the flights but I can really see this paying off. I for one am glad because I hate having to fly into Omaha and then drive 2 hrs back. Anybody else have any take on this? I was somewhat surprised nobody had posted about this yet. Spaceflight TechnologyPretty cool development - Vasimir Powered To Spaceflight Levels Quote: Ad Astra Rocket Company has powered the first stage of its experimental Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (Vasimir) to spaceflight levels using a superconducting magnet to contain its superhot plasma. This concept engine is being considered to power an Earth/Moon Cargo Tug as well as to power an Earth/Mars spaceship - The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) From some of the other links I've looked at, by Goggling VASIMR, it would appear that it's being considered in 2 variants - As a low-power fuel efficient engine or a high powered engine which would be capable of reducing the Earth-Mars travel time by over half (4 months instead of 10 months) using Argon as fuel. New Tom Osborne Book On The Wayhttp://huskerextra.com/articles/2009/07 ... 165833.txt Tom Osborne obviously juggles many duties as Nebraska’s athletic director. Nonetheless, he has found time to write his fifth book. “Beyond the Final Score: There’s More to Life Than the Game” is due out in mid-August. “It wasn’t necessarily my idea,” Osborne said. “There’s a publisher (Regal Books of Ventura, Calif.), and they approached me about writing a book. I told them I was pretty busy. But they said they’d help me out with it.” Osborne has finished writing the vast majority of the book after working on it for about the past three months. “As we hit June, I was able to do a little bit more on it,” he said. “We think we have it fairly well whipped into shape.” Osborne, 72, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999 after compiling a record of 255-49-3 (.836) and winning three national titles as Nebraska’s head coach from 1973 to 1997. He was elected to Congress in 2000 and served six years in the U.S. House of Representatives. In October 2007, he took over as Nebraska’s interim athletic director, and the interim tag since has been removed. “The publisher felt that I had an odd variety of jobs — coaching for all those years, then going to Congress and returning as athletic director,” Osborne said. “They also have some interest in the TeamMates Mentoring Program.” Osborne and his wife, Nancy, founded the TeamMates in 1991 in an effort to provide support and encouragement to youths. For the book, “the idea was to write about several different topics — politics, some thoughts about the state of college athletics, and certainly mentoring,” Osborne said. “It’s just kind of wandering through what’s happened in the last 10 or 11 years and some thoughts about it. “I don’t want to get into any more detail because it hasn’t been finalized by the editors and publisher yet. It’s getting pretty close.” Any proceeds from the book will go to the TeamMates program and NU’s new student life center, scheduled for completion in the fall of 2010. Osborne’s other books are “More Than Winning” in 1985, “On Solid Ground” in 1996, “Faith in the Game: Lessons on Football, Work, and Life” in 2000, and “What It Means to Be a Husker” in 2004. “This will probably be the last,” Osborne said.  I am looking forward to this. And for the Record What it means to be a Husker really wasn't written by Tom so really this is his 4th book.  One can only wonder...how anything gets done in Washington DC: Lies Wide Shut I don't post this to hammer the Democrats, though they deserve the hammering. But this crap goes on whether there is a D or an R next to the politicians. The games, the deceit, the lying, the pack mentality. How on earth does anything get done up there? During a period that we are at war? Think of how these games impact the fine people who work for the CIA. The very agency that we are dependent upon to watch our enemies. Is it any wonder that fools like these craft a bill as ridiculous as the cap and trade one that just came out when they take time out from their political gamesmanship? No wonder good people go up there and become corrupt, or get driven out. I am with Obama on this issue. It's better to keep the present limit on which of those nutcases lays their eyes on certain classified information. This further reinforces my belief of limiting, rather than expanding, the power those nutcases have over me. However, this is not unprecedented, as sometime back, I read a book detailing Washington's struggles during the Revolutionary War. Similar types of political gamesmanship and deceit took place during a time when a young nation was fighting for it's very existence. I shook my head in disbelieve that this country actually made it through that period. If it weren't for the fact that the British were more experienced in their own self inflicted corruptness, I don't believe this country would exist as it does today. Finally, an honest jounalist admits it...Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin and the Piranhas of the Press This isn't a pity thread for Palin. It's has to do with the corruptness of the MSM. And, it isn't totally about GOPers, because all you have to do, is go back to the Democratic Primary, and see how the media turned on Hillary, and supported the community organizer now in office, who is now the most powerful person in this country. It's understandable that people were tired of the GOP running this country. Voters have every right to express this bias, at the booth. But the press, who were rightly granted power via the Constitution, and therefore are dutifully bound to provide the voters with honest and factual reporting, well, their bias as noted in that article above is absolutely inexcusable. If this doesn't change, who knows what damage to our personal liberties, the next inexperienced celebrity voted into the most powerful office of this country could do. It could even extend into the press itself. This crap HAS to stop. And maybe, just maybe, the internet, via it's competition with the MSM, can help change this.
Simply Cookin'
|
