Christmas in The Good Life

Christmas is nearly upon us, but in The Good Life, the spirit of the season lasts all month long. You may recall that last year I featured our state’s Christmas City of Minden in my Christmas column.
U.S. Senator Deb Fischer

Letter to the Editor

Note: Denver Air Connection is the Essential Air Service provider at three airports in Nebraska: Alliance, Chadron and McCook. Dear Editors, We want to inform your readers, and our neighbors, of a troubling development affecting our region.

Lifting Nebraskans out of Loneliness

The holidays are a special time in Nebraska. We volunteer to serve our communities. Families and friends spend more time together. But for too many Nebraskans, the holidays can be lonely. Families are increasingly spread apart.
Lifting Nebraskans out of Loneliness

Nebraska’s School Funding Formula

Following the news that, as a result of Nebraska’s Tax Equity and Educational Opportunities Support Act (TEEOSA) formula, $30 million was overpaid to Omaha Public Schools, Senator Dave Murman, Chair of the Nebraska Legislature’s Education Committee, issued the following statement: “The TEEOSA...
Nebraska’s School Funding Formula

The most successful people fail a lot

I don’t think I ever have looked to Jerritt Elliott, the University of Texas Volleyball Coach, to provide perspective after an excruciating result. Following Nebraska’s stunning volleyball defeat to Texas A&M on Sunday in the NCAA Regional Final, I jumped aboard the Wisconsin bandwagon for an hour.
The most successful people fail a lot

Signal Under Siege in the Heartland

Most of us don’t think twice about the networks that connect our phones, schools, or workplaces. But those systems — parts of our daily lives that we often take for granted — are increasingly valuable targets for bad actors and foreign adversaries.
Signal Under Siege in the Heartland
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