The middlemen who comprise a growing share of America’s convoluted health care system find themselves in a bind. The public is angry about the inflated costs and opaque dealings that govern their access to medical care. Lawmakers, despite recent setbacks, are eager to respond. Intermediaries…
To say that President-elect Donald Trump has a lot of plans for his second term would be a gross understatement. He has vowed to implement the largest deportation operation in American history, secure the U.S.-Mexico border and negotiate a peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia.
This week our focus has shifted to tragic news: the escalating Los Angeles fires, deaths from a Tibet earthquake, and airplane crashes
 would recommend “The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife†by Anna Johnson to readers who want to read a book that makes them feel good about humanity.
As we turn the page on 2024, and look forward to new opportunities in 2025, it is a great time to look back on all that we have accomplished together at Scottsbluff Public Schools over the past year.
Pollsters are declaring President Joe Biden a “failure.†But the prevailing narrative will be little more than media noise for historians reckoning with economic signals.
We can’t have it both ways. We can’t.
Migrants aren’t the only ones dying — more than 5,000 in the last decade — because politics has replaced common sense as a way to solve the human crisis occurring daily at the U.S. border with Mexico.
Young men are not launching -- that is, growing up as traditionally holds -- at the same rate as young women. Among Americans ages 25 to 34, about 20% of the men are still living with their parents compared with 12% of the women. Fewer young males than females are attending college or job training.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Joe.
We are learning more about the world leaders who have received invitations to the ceremony –– and who have not.
🎧 The hosts discuss the emotional pull and practical considerations of choosing between a stationary existence or a life of perpetual exploration.
President Joe Biden’s decision to block Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.S. Steel on national security grounds will have disastrous consequences for some Pennsylvania steel workers, who will lose their jobs and won’t be able to pay mortgages and support their families. The decision should be reconsidered.
My mother was obsessed with national politics.
Nebraska’s conservative political establishment fought against medical marijuana for nearly a decade, killing the “Cannabis Compassion and Care Act†when it was introduced in the Legislature in 2015, getting a 2020 medical cannabis ballot initiative thrown out by the Nebraska Supreme Court and filing multiple challenges to the initiative put before voters in November.
Why is Congress protecting untraceable weapons?
If nothing else, we can be grateful for surviving another election season. But if you look a little harder -- and a little closer to home -- there is a wealth of things for which we can give thanks. They are often the things we take most for granted -- food, shelter, relationships, the goodness of today and the hope for even better things tomorrow.Â
This fall, 17 Nebraska students who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT college-entrance exam are receiving free tuition and room and board, as well as a $5,000 stipend, to attend the University of Nebraska.
The middlemen who comprise a growing share of America’s convoluted health care system find themselves in a bind. The public is angry about the inflated costs and opaque dealings that govern their access to medical care. Lawmakers, despite recent setbacks, are eager to respond. Intermediaries have become an obvious target for blame and reform.
To say that President-elect Donald Trump has a lot of plans for his second term would be a gross understatement. He has vowed to implement the largest deportation operation in American history, secure the U.S.-Mexico border and negotiate a peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia.
This week our focus has shifted to tragic news: the escalating Los Angeles fires, deaths from a Tibet earthquake, and airplane crashes
 would recommend “The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife†by Anna Johnson to readers who want to read a book that makes them feel good about humanity.
The implementation of voter ID requirements in Nebraska is more than a bureaucratic inconvenience — it's an outright gift to domestic violence abusers. While this law may have been introduced under the guise of protecting democracy, its real effect is to strip the most vulnerable among us of…
I am stunned and heartbroken to still see half the voters support Donald Trump when he is exactly the despot many of our ancestors came to this country to escape. This deranged man is now saying he would use the military to roundup his political enemies (he calls scum and the enemies within …
This November, the city council is asking us voters to renew the sales tax and the economic development plan. This 1.5 % sales tax is applies to just about everything, even taxing our utility bills and the city services bill.Â
I can’t think of any other elected official that better represents and embodies their constituents than Senator Deb Fischer.
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