Knock on wood...Or else!
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When you grow up in rural America, there are some common sayings that you not only learn at a young age, but, over time, come to believe in yourself. If you don’t believe me, just ask around.
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Ricketts and Pillen on right side in electric vehicle debate
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Full Disclosure: My wife and I drive a fouryear- old hybrid sedan. It runs on the electric motor up to fifteen miles -per- hour before the gasoline engine engages. It feels and sounds like it’s dead at stop signs. It averages forty-four miles-pergallon in highway driving. But it’s a hybrid, not an all- electric vehicle.
We took a shot
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I have to tell you, I feel as though, recently, my luck has kind of run out. At least when it comes to games of chance.
Remember when
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Taken from the files of The Wolbach Messenger Ten Years Ago, 2014 Members of the Greeley-Wolbach FCCLA Chapter participated in the District 9 Students Taking Action for Recognition (STAR) events on Wednesday, January 29th at West Boyd High School in Spencer. Emily Houtby earned a gold medal and captured third place in Career Investigation senior division…Keely Butcher, Lindsay Lammers, and Sidney Wood earned gold medals and were named the district runners-up in the Focus on Children senior division event.
Governor vows to cut property taxes by $2 billion, somehow
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I was not shocked, just disappointed when Governor Jim Pillen announced that he was going to reduce Nebraska’s collective property taxes by two billion dollars this year, somehow. Imagine that.
Let’s get something streight straight
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In mid-January, the St. Paul High School boys’ wrestling team won its third consecutive conference title.
I like the idea of the legislature running the state prison system
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Omaha Senator Justin Wayne, chair of the Judiciary Committee, has offered a bill that would put Nebraska’s Legislature in charge of the state’s prison system, which is currently under the purview of the executive branch.
A small memento can hit you like a ton of bricks
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Years ago, when my family and I took a summer vacation to Yellowstone National Park, my mother had one very specific souvenir of our trip in mind. She wanted a rock.
Hopes for a “Normal” legislative session have diminished
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Comments from two state senators from Omaha have pretty much diminished hopes for a “normal” session of the Nebraska Legislature this year. “I think it will be a difficult session again.
Prime reporting from the Palmetto State
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I have to admit, at this time last week, I would have had a hard time coming up with a handful of facts that I knew about the state of South Carolina. Fast-forward to this week, and I may not be able to sweep a category about the Palmetto State on Jeopardy, but I now do know one additional thing about South Carolina.
