🎧 The hosts discuss the importance of good sportsmanship and why, unlike in politics, sports almost always rewards the people with the most skill.
There’s an acronym that has been stirring things up in government for the last 30-plus years. It’s called TEEOSA and the mere mention of its name sends senators to consult with staff, lobbyists to check their wallets and school administrators to check with their budget gurus.
Every day, 2.4 million people tune in to watch Dr. Phil give mental health advice. Described as the top mental health show on TV, it is widely trusted by many Americans because Dr. Phil examines some of our society’s difficult issues.
Tortilla prices and trade relations between the United States and Mexico are at stake in a feud that could undermine trade relations between Mexico and the United States.
Lacking regulatory intervention, the only obstacle between a young person and a nasty vaping addiction are his parents.
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OUR VIEW: A clean break is needed, not timid hedging that hopes he’ll go away on his own
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STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Congress should allow fair negotiations with Google and Facebook
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Congress should allow fair negotiations with Google and Facebook
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Congress should allow fair negotiations with Google and Facebook
Public ignorance and blind party loyalty are a candidate's best friend.
Three of the Missouri and Kansas region’s four U.S. senators decided Wednesday to hold sick veterans hostage to their own anger. It’s appalling and childish.
When conservatives talk about so-called “entitlements,” they act as if it’s charity.
His name is unknown to most, but few have done more for higher education than the late Claiborne Pell, a six-term senator from Rhode Island. It was Pell who sponsored a 1972 bill that reformed the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant, which provides financial aid to American college students.…
STATE JOURNAL VIEW: Chronic distraction to learning needs restriction so teachers can teach
The hallmark of a safe boater is knowing how to practice restraint. If weather and water conditions threaten the safety of his crew, the safe boater knows better than to venture out. As the saying goes, there are old sailors and bold sailors, but no old, bold sailors.
It’s a well-known saying — strike while the iron is hot — but that good advice has been mostly ignored by our elected representatives in Congress. If those lawmakers had struck boldly and decisively, they would have produced meaningful gun safety legislation. However, it has been 29 years si…
Gun owners have vigorously defended their Second Amendment right to own guns, and we can’t blame them. The constitutional protection for gun owners is under constant assault because most Americans are emotionally and spiritually exhausted by our nation’s plague of violence and our inability …
Americans are giving President Joe Biden low marks for his job performance. He’s scoring poorly in both urban and rural America. Where Nebraskans are concerned, there are justifiable reasons to be dissatisfied. According to a recent message written by the Nebraska Farm Bureau’s Board of Dire…
Young parents and many teachers have been treading down a long dark path with their children and students, and it all adds up to a deeply traumatic time. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been the lead story on newscasts for the past several weeks. All of that on-screen chaos comes on the hee…
This will make us unpopular among the Hub’s many conservative readers, but we have grave concerns about the conceal-carry proposal that’s barreling through the Nebraska Legislature, so we’re compelled to speak out.
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Maybe you heard about the guys who were out for a paddle in their kayak. The weather was bitterly cold so they decided to light a fire in the bottom of the boat. Bad idea. The boat sank and the two guys had to swim back to shore. But they learned a valuable lesson: You can’t have your kayak …
Vladimir Putin and the Russian army didn’t shock anyone by invading Ukraine, but they’ve upset the order of things and may have pushed nations of the planet across the border of the nuclear danger zone. If you were preparing to suffer through the unpleasant side effects of allied sanctions a…
Is opioid addiction a problem in Nebraska? You bet it is, but the king of the hill is methamphetamine abuse. According to research, meth is involved in more deaths than synthetic opioids. From 2018-19, Nebraska experienced a 58.8% increase in psychostimulant-involved overdose deaths.
A rose to ... the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles. For generations, the DMV has been lampooned as the place that dooms motorists to wait for hours in long lines to renew driver’s licenses or relicense their vehicles. Well, the days of waiting are behind us. DMV last week posted an anno…
You might be like a lot of Nebraskans who never have heard the name Eric Thompson, or known that he’s a top economist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Experts are warning it’s going to be a busy Christmas on the nation’s highways and in its airports. There’s going to be a lot of traveling. Americans who were locked up last year during the first wave of the COVID pandemic are ready to put 2020 behind them.
A rose to ... the hundreds of professionals in the Kearney area who will be giving up their holiday time to serve their community. They are the “front liners,” as we now label people who risk their own well-being to ensure critical services are available to the people who need them. As Chris…
Some Americans say we should update the Bill of Rights. Their suggestion might seem valid because we’re in a period of division and disagreement so it’s time to update our government. On Wednesday, the Bill of Rights will be 230 years old. That’s a long time, but the document has not outlive…