The Nebraska Public Service Commission recently approved an Order (C-5272) awarding 60 grants totaling nearly $18 million from the Nebraska Broadband Bridge Program (NBBP). The vote to approve the Order (C-5272) was 4-1 with Commissioner Crystal Rhoades dissenting.
Lawmakers gave first-round approval Jan. 11 to a bill that would cut Nebraska’s inheritance tax rates while increasing the amount of property value that is exempt from the tax.
Two Syracuse graduates are participating in Division I Track and Field at the University of South Dakota this season, Meredith Clark and Lauren Meyer. With the indoor season underway, both competed at the Hawkeye Invitational in Iowa City, Iowa on Friday and Saturday.
The Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca wrestlers picked up Thursday dual wins at home against Fairbury, 63-16, with wins by Colton Sprague, Carter Wander, Caleb Caudill, Jace Goebel, Noah McKenzie, Barret Brandt, Cy Petersen, Tieran Cox, Barrett Bischoff, Owen Wander, and against Norris, 42-30, with wins for the Rockets by Colton Sprague, Jace Goebel, Barret Brandt, Cy Petersen, Jackson Nordhues, Treyton Jones and Chance Buchanan. Barret Brandt picked up his 100th win.
It’s Martin Luther King’s birthday. He had a dream, you know.
Nebraska Public Service Commissioners recently elected leadership positions for 2022. District 1 Commissioner Dan Watermeier will remain chair for a second year.
With 1.4 billion consumers, China is a place with abundant potential. China also is ruled by the Chinese Communist Party, a longtime belligerent which enslaves its own people, steals intellectual and tangible property, and flouts fundamental values like national sovereignty, free enterprise, democracy, and the rule of law around the world. While Congress has taken several small steps to restrain China this year, including passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act which bans products made with slave labor in China’s Xinjiang region, the Biden Administration is failing to more directly confront China’s aggression.
One of my favorite parables describes the difference between heaven and hell. In both places, hungry people sit at tables laden with delicious food. In hell, people suffer and starve because they cannot eat with the long utensils provided. In heaven, people are happy and thrive because they use the utensils to feed each other.
Todd Daniel Schmucker of North Port Florida and Unadilla, NE passed away 31 December 2021 at Venice SMH after six and half years fight against Stage 4 Colon-Rectum cancer. Todd was born in Lincoln, Nebraska to Ernest Hal Schmucker and Catherine Lucille Means Schmucker on…
Alene Eloise (Henry) Landwehr was born October 14, 1927 in the family farm house near Talmage to Merle & Letha (Jackson) Henry. She passed away January 12, 2022 in her farm home by Lorton at the age of 94. She graduated…