Norman Krivosha Remembered

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January, 2021 Lincoln –  Norman Krivosha, former chief justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, made remarkable contributions to Lincoln and t...

Naming Lincoln's New High Schools

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January, 2021 Lincoln –  Two new high schools in Lincoln are about to be named .  The school board historically has named high schools with ...

Virginia Smith and Donald Trump

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January, 2021 Lincoln – Two Nebraskans with long experience in Washington have reacted in print to the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. ...

Reasons to Disregard 11th-hour Memo on Student Loans

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January, 2021 Washington – The Trump administration is making an eleventh-hour attempt to limit the ability of the incoming Biden administra...

The Case for Methodical and Bi-Partisan Impeachment

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January, 2021 Washington –  What a week. The accounts of those trapped in the U.S. Capitol, calling for help, are the most unsettling to me...

The Colossal Crises

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January, 2021 Washington and Lincoln –  In September, 2016, this blog predicted a "colossal crisis" if Donald Trump were to be el...

The Department of Education "lies in ruins." Now what?

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January, 2021 Washington – Readers of this blog will not be surprised to find me in agreement with much of what the New York Times said yes...

Unknown Nebraska Hero

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December, 2020 Lincoln – This fall, when the spread of Covid-19 was raging across Nebraska, one person, an unidentified state employee worki...

Reality at Bryan Hospital

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December, 2020 Lincoln – Nebraska's Covid crisis is out of control.  Despite repeated pleas from health professionals, pandemic avoidanc...

Joe Biden and Tom Vilsack

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December, 2020 Washington – Tom Vilsack will be nominated for Secretary of Agriculture.  Some readers of this blog may have preferred other ...