Opinion

A couple weeks ago, I took a small road trip to cover some high school volleyball and when I came home, I was plumb tuckered out. In fact, the excitement of the matchup and the first two days of the work week was such that, after sitting down in my chair in the living room, I was soon out like a light.

Nothing ruins a public hearing on a legislative bill like the public showing up. Wait, what? A former boss said it years ago at the end of a particularly long day of hearings at the State Capitol.

An open letter to Colorado. It’s fitting that I am writing this on the twenty- second Anniversary of the September 11th attacks on America, the day that hatred manifested itself openly on American soil.

There once was a time when, if you wanted to be a newspaper man, or desired to carve out a living in any of the other trades for that matter, you would have had to first undergo a lengthy hands-on education.

At a time when people’s trust in government is waning, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued an opinion that the Legislature’s Office of the Public Counsel, better known as the Ombudsman’s Office, is unconstitutional.

A couple weeks ago, I was at the office on Sunday afternoon when I received the most peculiar phone call. A gentleman, who I instantly noticed had an accent that was far from that of any of my friends and neighbors, out of the blue, started yelling at me as soon as I picked up the phone.

Labor Day is an opportunity to acknowledge and show appreciation for the contributions of the American workforce. Unfortunately, American workers don’t have much to celebrate this Labor Day. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1.2 million workers have been unemployed for twenty-seven weeks or more. Some 5.2 million workers across the United States are “not in the labor force who currently want a job.” Real wages have decreased four percent since President Biden took office, overall prices are up over sixteen percent, and interest rates are soaring. This is the reality families everywhere are faced with as the Biden administration touts “Bidenomics.” No wonder a recent CNN poll found the majority of Americans are feeling pessimistic about the economy.

Early last month, I was at a party with some friends, when one of them had to excuse themselves. They had gotten a phone call, and their cows were out.

A couple of weeks ago, a brown patch started to show up in the middle of my front yard. Ample rain this summer, and relatively little trouble with sprinklers, had kept my yard green and lush all year.