It’s easy to understand but hard to remember that the one task of the Nebraska Legislature is to pass a balanced budget during the ninety-day session and to make adjustments to and pass that budget again in the sixty-day session.

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.”

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?