Why I Believe in Santa
Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you see, Jim Higley writes, it just matters what you believe.It was our last Christmas in North Carolina. My son, Kevin, was eight and my daughter, Wallis, was five....
View ArticleArmy Surplus
John Tinseth can’t walk through the Army Navy Surplus Store without thinking of the guys he knew in the Army.The basement of I. Goldberg in Philadelphia is a diverse mix of mostly European military...
View ArticleSeven Days of Memories: His Soundtrack
The son of Major FM Tinseth remembers his father and the music that brings him to life in his memory.Major FM Tinseth, South Korea, 1971A change—due to my father’s death—is the ability to suffer...
View ArticleThe Secret to a Long Marriage: Matching Outfits
It’s a phenomenon I’ve been observing in my own home for the last 6 or so years of my 8+ years of being with Ivan. I buy a pair of shoes, and being as I’m a complete Tomboy, my husband always copies...
View ArticleRemembering Tom Osborne
J.R. Reed looks at a coaching legend and the memories he shared with his dad. My first memories of football are of watching Nebraska in the 1970’s. My parents were both raised in the Cornhusker state...
View ArticleFederal Judges Block Anti-Immigrant South Carolina Law
This latest ruling means the three South Carolina provisions will remain temporarily blocked until the court holds a full trial on the statute.—This post originally appeared at ThinkProgressBy Nicole...
View ArticleWho Was This Year’s Best Oscar-Nominated Dad: Christian Bale or Bruce Dern?
The 2014 Academy voters appear to be fans of the incredibly flawed fathers of “American Hustle” and “Nebraska”—2013 was not a great year for fathers in the movies. There was a lot for dads to enjoy at...
View ArticleIs the Key to Closing the Achievement Gap Found In… Nebraska?
Jennifer Berkshire (EduShyster) talks to Education Cities’ Ethan Gray about the new Education Equality Index, and challenges him to accompany her to the #1 gap-closing city in the USA: Omaha,...
View ArticleEnlightenment, the Hard Way
If you live long enough you’ll see every victory turns into a defeat. ~Simone de Beauvoir It wasn’t that long ago that I believed some of the more credible platitudes concerning the value of...
View ArticleIt’s Potty Time
It was a great idea, and one that should have been further developed. Nobody has really gone to the trouble of rating Interstate Rest Areas. These expensive, vital links to interstate travel and...
View ArticleDreams, Interrupted
It was the strangest thing, a day that started with a quiet, gentle rain shower. It was kind of peaceful, and kind of jarring. A peaceful dream of rolling hills, missed exits and giant, monolithic...
View ArticleAbortion Politics Lead to Power Struggles Over Family Planning Grants
By Katheryn Houghton BOZEMAN, Mont. — In a busy downtown coffee shop, a drawing of a ski lift with intrauterine devices for chairs draws the eyes of sleepy customers getting their morning underway...
View ArticleCentene Showers Politicians With Millions as It Courts Contracts and Settles...
By Samantha Young and Andy Miller and Rebecca Grapevine On Nov. 2, 2021, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s reelection campaign received 10 separate $10,000 contributions from what appeared to be unrelated...
View ArticleA Tweak to the University of Nebraska’s Logo Shows How the Once Benign ‘Ok’...
By Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis On April 17, 2023, the Nebraska Cornhuskers unveiled the latest version of their beloved mascot, Herbie Husker. Herbie’s left hand no longer forms the “OK”...
View ArticleThree Nebraska Tribes Are Buying Back Farmland, and Attempting to Reverse...
By Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press, Investigate Midwest This story is part of a series overseen by the Rural News Network. Read the other stories here. WINNEBAGO, Nebraska — Aaron LaPointe sits...
View ArticleWho’s Buying Nebraska? Corporations, Investors Grabbing Giant Chunks of...
By Yanqi Xu, Flatwater Free Press and Destiny Herbers, Flatwater Free Press, Investigate Midwest This story was originally published by the Flatwater Free Press. There’s never a Black Friday discount...
View ArticleNebraska Directs $2M To Boost Reading in Preschools, Eliminate ‘Book Deserts’
By Cindy Gonzalez, The 74 OMAHA — Seeking to eliminate “book deserts” in Nebraska, the State Department of Education has directed $2 million toward getting more than a half-million books into...
View ArticleRising Malpractice Premiums Price Small Clinics Out of Gender-Affirming Care...
By Cecilia Nowell After Iowa lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in March, managers of an LGBTQ+ health clinic located just across the state line in Moline, Illinois, decided...
View ArticleBathroom Bills Are Back — Broader and Stricter — In Several States
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match...
View ArticleDroughts, Complicated by Climate Change, Result in US Beef Herd Hitting...
By John McCracken, Investigate Midwest Thirty years ago, the weather on Annie Doerr’s family ranch felt reliable. Now that she’s taken over from her parents, it’s been anything but. In recent years,...
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