Last week, I headed off to camp! I would love to say that my duffle bag was filled with my swim trunks, a flashlight, and all the fixings necessary to make some killer s’mores, but that might paint more of a rosy picture of camp than the one I experienced. Let’s just say that, after only about an hour, I was about ready to call my mom for a ride home! In the middle of October, across the Cornhusker State, fall sports seasons are making the rapid transition from regular-season events to postseason competition.

None of us like paying taxes. But even the Bible says we’re supposed to (“Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” is how I remember it).

I have been to Wilber, Nebraska once in my life, and it was a trip—or more like a pitstop— that I will never forget. Several years ago, while traveling from St.

A state senator—who will remain unnamed— once told me that “We’re all mammals” in reference to a sex scandal at the state capitol. Another senator had been caught using a state computer to, shall we say, do something naughty while watching a woman do something naughty online.

It had been a minute since I had browsed the candy aisle at the local gas station, so a couple of weeks ago, I decided to peruse and see just what exactly was being sold these days. Me, I am a habitual Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup lover, so I rarely look for anything but that bright orange packaging when it comes to selecting my candy of choice.

We live in a world where having adequate high-speed internet service is not just a luxury, but a necessity. With proper broadband, you can use a computer to run a business, manage a good website, work remotely, and operate the new generation of precision agriculture equipment.

“Where is the best place in town to eat?” That was the question that I heard multiple times late last week, as I hung around the storage bay of my office in downtown St. Paul.

“You should be allowed to say outrageous things.” “There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech.

For a lot of people, if you were asked to think about the year 2010, there is a good chance that a litany of headline-making events would come to the forefront of your mind. Haiti was devastated by an earthquake just a handful of days into the year, Steve Jobs and Apple announced the launch of the first iPad in the spring, thirty-three Chilean miners got trapped and were miraculously rescued late in the summer, and just before Christmas, the Big 12 gave Husker fans a going- away gift we will never forget, a gut-wrenching loss to Oklahoma in the conference championship game.

Alarm bells are sounding over the lack of robust job growth in the state’s two largest cities. A recent study commissioned by the Omaha-based Aksarben Foundation indicated that job growth in Omaha and Lincoln lagged behind its peer cities, such as Sioux Falls, Des Moines, and Oklahoma City.