Supreme Court had no choice but to knock down the loan reduction program
🎧 Topics include local politics, DNA tests and gender identity.
Commentary: Increasing polarization is behind the erosion of national pride.
A bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., would close several loopholes identified by The Washington Post in an investigative series published last fall. The investigation found hundreds of retired U.S. military officers taking lucrativ…
In celebration of the United States’ birthday, here are five surprising facts about the nation’s founding document:
More Americans over the last several decades have abandoned their faith — usually Christianity — to join the ranks of the non-religious. This includes people who describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular.”
The state of the republic is precarious. But I am hopeful that democracy will prevail because it is resilient.
A 2-year-old is so resourceful that if he’s confined, he’ll figure his way out eventually.
Every Monday, two library volunteers, Kathleen and Linda, show up to volunteer several hours in our book sale room to sort, categorize and shelve books which were donated since their last work day.
Many girls aged 10 to 18 years old are not getting enough physical activity.
It’s the little things you do together that keep your relationship happy and healthy. Just like a living thing, your love needs to be nurtured and protected.
They’re baaaaccck!! That’s right, the Japanese beetles are back.
A fellow went to the hospital to visit his dying business partner. Suddenly the dying man began to speak.
The death of a pregnant woman can only be a tragedy. But the loss of 2016 Olympic medalist Tori Bowie, a Mississippi native who died in May from childbirth complications, also serves as a reminder that America’s maternal mortality rate is far too high.
Alex Anastasio voted for Donald Trump for president twice, attended Trump rallies, organized events for him and placed signs in front of her home in Pennsylvania. And she was deeply hopeful in the early days following the 2020 election that once all of the votes were counted, he would serve a second term -- so hopeful, indeed, that she was initially involved in a voter recount effort in support of that.
Watch out for China. This nuclearized, troop-laden, threatening, ultra-aggressive military monster has just come up with another warning of evil intent. It is negotiating with Cuba about a joint military training and enhanced intelligence center 100 miles from Florida. The center would no doubt host vast numbers of China’s 2 million-plus active troops as combat readiness grows and U.S. military secrets become a reading pleasure.
During the failed August 1991 putsch in Russia, the good guys were reformers Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. The bad guys were an incompetent claque of the military and KGB within the Politburo, and the rebellion fizzled when Yeltsin climbed on that tank in Moscow. The Kremlin’s nukes were kept secure, and the world caught its breath. The once all-powerful Soviet Union then peacefully flickered out of existence.
🎧 The hosts discuss why such policies can hurt cities and often cause a lack of affordable housing.
My thoughts go out to their loved ones. Sincerely. But how sad should we feel about their deaths?
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie once was a Republican star. His Jersey tough talk and handling of Superstorm Sandy helped him coast to reelection in a blue state.
Like many people, I was glued to the news for much of Saturday, watching what seemed, at least for a moment, to be the first stages of a coup d'etat -- and it still might be. The only thing we know for certain is that if this is the beginning of the end of Vladimir Putin's rule, that story won't begin with the mutinous mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin leading an armored column of troops, guns a-blazing, into Moscow.
A rattled Vladimir Putin’s political end is approaching. All that really matters now is whether it comes sooner or later.
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“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” So said Abraham Lincoln in his “House Divided” speech, given 165 years ago.
The Justice Department must be more transparent about investigation
It’s summertime, and that means the library is bustling with activity. Of course much of that activity centers around kids and encouraging them to keep learning and practicing their reading throughout the summer, but we have lots of things for adults, too, I promise.
Summer break for kids is exciting, fun and relaxing.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among Americans, and physical inactivity is one of several major risk factors. So, put your heart into getting active.
It’s June and wedding season is upon us again.
Nebraska Extension will host its annual Weed Management Field Day on Wednesday, June 28, at the South Central Ag Lab near Clay Center.
The first question asked when a baby is born is their gender. That question is always binary — a boy or a girl.