Categories
Nebraska Politics

Seeing Red Editorial Cartoon Number 1: Chauncey

Categories
Immigration Nebraska Politics

“Suffer the Children” is Not an Immigration Policy

Editor’s Note: Reader submission by Gordon Hopkins   Her name is Phan Thi Kim Phúc. Do you know who she is? Perhaps not. If you are “of a certain age,” like myself, you have certainly seen her. Her image was every bit an icon of the early seventies as the bright yellow “smiley face” and […]

Categories
Civic Engagement Nebraska Politics Published

Has anyone seen Adrian Smith?

Adrian Smith, candidate for House of Representatives in Nebraska’s 3rd District, and I are about the same age and we both grew up in Gering, Nebraska. I must admit, I don’t remember a whole lot about him because, well, he’s not that memorable. As anyone from a small town knows, regardless of how well you […]

Categories
Nebraska Politics

Call it by its name Pt 1: The problem is guns

Last Thursday, a couple hundred Lincolnites filled the Lincoln High School auditorium for a panel advertised as covering a wide range of topics related to school security, including: hiring more school resource officers or installing metal detectors; improving mental health services, threat assessment techniques and coordination among law enforcement; balancing Second Amendment rights with calls […]

Categories
Nebraska Politics

WTF Andy Stebbing?

Early one morning last week as I was heading to work, I spotted a yard sign in my neighborhood that I could not for the life of me figure out.  ANDY STEBBING FOR TREASURER it said. Was this some kind of joke? A second court just ruled there was probable cause to move forward to […]

css.php