Opinion

Over the Easter weekend I found myself somewhat forced to go through a series of boxes that I had packed away after moving years ago. I would like to say that what I had packed away were treasures that I had wanted to keep forever.

“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” – Thumper “The tongue of the wise makes knowledge attractive, but the mouth of fools blurts out foolishness.” Proverbs 15:2 CSB Nebraska’s unique one-house Legislature is back in the national spotlight again, for all the wrong reasons again. Last year, it was a session-slowing filibuster accomplished by a couple senators who were upset with a bill restricting access to medical services for transgender youth.

The older I get, the more I realize a simple fact of life. There is nothing more important than a good night’s sleep.

Let’s talk about that big day coming up this weekend, Easter. Some of you, like me, consider it a holy day.

If you are a plumper fella like me, there is one rule on laundry day that trumps all others. Never put your jeans in the dryer.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely is a proverbial saying reportedly coined by the English nobleman Lord Acton in 1857. How much power should be given to the Executive Branch of Nebraska state government is a topic for discussion by state lawmakers and political observers alike.

If there is one thing that someone in my profession is never lacking, it is the right word. At least, you hope not.

I have a feeling that, on Sunday morning, if you were in church, you were praying for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Sunday provided a bevy of action for college basketball fans across Nebraska.

There are a lot of ins and outs in party politics during an election year. Who’s in the race and who’s out? All eyes have been on the Legislature, where the big surprise came from Republican Julie Slama — rhymes with drama — who announced she wouldn’t seek a second term representing southeast Nebraska’s District One because she was going to take her recently earned law degree in another direction.

Three of the four kids in my family were born on the same day in December over a span of fourteen years. The “other” one was born on March 1st.