Some experiences define life in Grand Island.
The return of University of Nebraska at Kearney classes to Grand Island is a boost for educational opportunities here.
This National Small Business Week (Sept. 20-26) has a somber tone thanks to the 400,000 such businesses we’ve lost since the COVID-19 pandemic…
Fall is a time of change.
Little things mean a lot. Here’s a memory I’ll not soon forget:
A good friend says no to an outdoor barbecue. Your uncle doesn’t stop by when he passes your town en route to a vacation. A friend fails to ma…
One of those famous commercial jingles from my youth that would get stuck in your head informed everyone that “the best part of waking up is F…
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Farm wives do whatever it takes
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White people will contort themselves to justify police killing of Black people
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How dare schools teach that U.S. was built on backs of enslaved Black people?
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My patients can ‘feel well’ yet test positive for the coronavirus. They’re shocked, but I’m not
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Republicans refuse to give up on American dream
After revelations that President Donald Trump knew all along COVID-19 was a serious threat, he wants us to believe he was acting in the public…
Women truly can do it all
Like so much else in 2020, the wildfires engulfing the western half of the United States are without precedent.
As the Big Ten conference announced its about-turn on fall football Tuesday, the Northwestern University coach was ecstatic. “I’m excited for …
As a physician, I’m part of a COVID-19 task force that contacts coronavirus-positive patients and clarifies the next steps in their care. When…
So far this year, California has experienced three of the four largest fires in state history, and we’re only just entering the traditional fi…
Labor Day in the Pandemic Year of 2020 has come and gone, and by the day after, Tuesday, something had changed. You could feel it and hear it,…
The cable networks, including Fox News, could talk of little else Labor Day weekend but the Atlantic magazine piece by Jeffrey Goldberg allegi…
At a time when more people than ever are experiencing food insecurity and hardship — including thousands of Nebraskans who sought emergency fo…
You may not have heard the academic phrase “critical race theory,” but it’s playing an increasingly large role in the Republican campaign agai…
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man wealthy, healthy and wise,” is a saying of Benjamin Franklin’s, meaning he must have gone to bed ear…
My nominee for Patriot of the Week is Lauren Victor, in acknowledgement of her public demonstration of that most American of characteristics, …
It’s not easy to function when your internal biological clock gets thrown out of whack.
My grandmothers were about as different, one from the other, as any two women could be. One sang soprano, whistled it while she worked. The ot…
The Trump-Russia investigation effectively ended on July 24, 2019, the day special counsel Robert Mueller testified on Capitol Hill. Mueller’s…
The effort to provide additional relief for victims of the COVID-19 pandemic has become the poster child for what’s wrong with the legislative…
We are into the seventh month of the pandemic of the coronavirus. It is weighing heavily upon all of us, but especially upon the elderly, the …
A pastor in Plano, Texas, invited several families to come to the front of the church to be received as new members.
Dear Annie: My wife and I have just celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary.
About halfway through lockdown, I deleted Facebook and Twitter from my iPhone.
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