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Follow the Historic Trail of the Pony Express Jun. 01, 2025
By Victor Block Around 1857, a man named Gerat Hollenberg and his wife, Sophia, built a modest wood-... Read More
The Man's Man vs. the Man Child Aug. 16, 2024
If Kamala Harris becomes the first woman president, her first accomplishment could well have already... Read More
Will Walz Keep Nebraska's Blue Dot Blue? Aug. 13, 2024
The 2024 presidential election, we are told, will be decided in a handful of battleground states. Th... Read More
As Nebraska Goes, So Could Go Maine Apr. 16, 2024
Every state is different. Nebraska is quite different. It is one of only two states that doesn't use... Read More
Nebraska Is Different in Some Very Good Ways Dec. 07, 2023
There's only one Nebraska. Reminders of its uniqueness appeared in the obituaries of Charlie Munger,... Read More
This Month, Anti-Abortion Extremists Showed Us Who They Really Are May. 22, 2023
Rights & Resistance with the ACLU
Last week was a heartbreaking one for those of us who believe in the freedom to fully control our bo... Read More
More Important Than the President Nov. 18, 2022
Out there in Nebraska, where the air is clean and pure, up there in Minnesota, where they have those... Read More
Perfect Can't Be Improved Upon Nov. 28, 2018
Feb. 3, 1997, was a memorable day for Jeremey Sonnenfeld because this sophomore bowler from the Univ... Read More
Nature's Great Bird Migration Under Threat by You-Know-Who Apr. 05, 2018
You could call it the Nebraska bird eclipse. At the first dart of morning light, so many sandhill cr... Read More
Souls vs. Fossil Fuels Aug. 10, 2017
There are regions where economic stress coexists with a beloved way of life. It can be hard to make ... Read More
More States Should Ban the Death Penalty Oct. 04, 2016
Most of the civilized world has come to regard killing someone held in captivity as barbaric. The de... Read More
Death Penalty for Tsarnaev Hurts Boston May. 19, 2015
Why was 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to die in a state so generally opposed to capital pu... Read More
Casinos Just Aren't the Answer Sep. 09, 2014
The video for the Bruce Springsteen song "Atlantic City" opens with a scene of the grand Marlborough... Read More
The Old West Begins in the Nebraska Panhandle Aug. 02, 2014
By Steve Bergsman I was standing in the small Nebraska Panhandle city of Sidney, staring at a big st... Read More
A Visit to Nebraska Yields Connections With History Mar. 22, 2014
By Kathryn Lemmon How is American folk legend Wild Bill Hickock connected to the modern-day space sh... Read More
'Nebraska' and 'Charlie Countryman': A Road Trip With Bruce Dern and Will Forte, A Romanian Holiday With Shia LaBeouf Nov. 15, 2013
Bruce Dern gives a brave and unfaltering performance in "Nebraska," the new movie by Alexa... Read More
Mad Scientists in the Laboratories of Democracy Mar. 17, 2011
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said that states are the "laboratories of democracy.&... Read More
No Spin: Windmills Fail Aug. 29, 2010
Is wind power a viable alternative to low-cost fossil fuels? Consider this: relying on windmills to ... Read More
Chip Bok
Dec. 23, 2009
