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.

We should know soon if a group called Support Our Schools Nebraska was successful in gathering enough petition signatures to allow voters to decide the fate of the Opportunity Scholarship Act passed by the Legislature in its tumultuous session.

Over the years, I have written a lot of unique stories. However, on Friday evening, I believe I was confronted with writing one of the most unexpected and toughest stories of my career.

In May, ten Nebraska State Patrol troopers went to Texas for two weeks to help with drone surveillance of the border with Mexico. Recently, sixty Nebraska National Guard members went to Texas for a month for a similar assignment.

It is such a nuisance that there have been entire plot lines in sitcoms about it. There has been advertising created for it.

Ten Years Ago, 2013 The Greeley-Wolbach Board of Education’s building committee is in the process of formulating plans for constructing additions and renovations at the Greeley site.

As the youngest of four children, you would think I would be the black sheep of the family. Well, in some regards you would be right.

“Jack Sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean.” The Governor put a committee on it.

A couple years ago, I was sitting around a campfire a couple miles from my home in Howard County, when an out-of-town guest asked me what I thought about a local attraction. Caught off guard by the question, I answered as truthfully as I could.

There are eight petitions circulating with hopes of making the 2024 General Election ballot, according to Secretary of State Bob Evnen. The action is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gives people the right to “petition the government for a redress of grievances.”