Body Anymore, having high-speed internet at your home, farm, or business has become as important as having electricity. You run a business and have a website? You need high-speed internet.

Body Early last week, the humidity started to spike, and it got hot in the Cornhusker State. While sweating out the dog days of summer, your local newspaper publisher got a unique craving: watermelon.

Body This is probably speaking to the choir, because if you’re reading this, you already believe that maintaining a healthy media—with fact-checking editors instead of conspiracy spreading folks in pajama pants—is really important.

Body Western Nebraska rocks, or at least it is full of them. That is one of the many realizations that I had over the past week, as my service on the Nebraska Press Association Board of Directors took me west, to Bridgeport and the Nebraska Panhandle, for a couple of days.

Body New superintendent is settling in at Centura For Dr. Kaela Heneger, a tiny wave from a student at Centura Elementary School was the first sign that she could one day find a home in the Centura community.

Body Back in the day, when I worked the full-service island at the Palmer Service Center in the summer, there were only a couple of rules. I didn’t know the first thing about cars—I still don’t, if I am being completely honest—and I was a terrible window washer.

Body We appear to be done bombing Iran, and to be back to helping Ukraine repel invaders from Russia. Plus, it looks like the trade war we started is going to raise our cost of buying coffee from Brazil and beer from Mexico.

Body In case you are curious, I spend a lot of time on the golf course. Oddly though, it has been years since I last touched a club.

Body Well, it’s that time of year—when the corn is rising in the fields, the calves are fattening on the pastures, and politicians aplenty are announcing their candidacies for elected office. Those announcements seem to come earlier than ever, as do the negative campaign ads.

Body There’s some good news and plenty of bad news for Nebraska’s rural hospitals.