North Platte City Council members Tuesday will finally be asked to officially lend the city’s aid to the Sustainable Beef LLC meatpacking project.
It’s clear, in pondering reactions to North Platte’s recent big economic projects, that there’s one thing local residents want from their lead…
It’s been four months today since our Nebraska ranching neighbors first publicly said they want to build an 875-employee beef processing plant…
It’s so very easy, especially now, to assume the worst about persons and people:
We’re blessed to be at peace this Independence Day — with other nations, if not completely among ourselves.
Every now and then, the name of North Platte pops up in unusual places.
So what’s there to write about when Nebraskaland Days is over, Independence Day is a week away and there’s an extra week between city meetings?
During North Platte’s first century, today — not tomorrow — was the day to observe Memorial Day.
North Platte has had another run of good economic news. It again shows what happens when a community with so much going for it resolves to tak…
After leading his nation during the carnage of World War I, the wartime French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau famously remarked that war wa…
While they’re at it, Nebraskans ought to ask their state senators why they’re talking again about ending their “long” session early.
One thing’s for sure: Today’s high school graduations in North Platte will be a lot cooler.
We submit this as a Top 5 list of typical gripes about economic development proposals and how local leaders handle them:
I was confronted by a fellow senator this session about a change of mind I’d made on an issue. I explained that after examining the facts and …
Episode 18: Scott Rada and Richard Kyte also discuss how the pandemic has contributed to job burnout and why the withdrawal last week of Olymp…
Opinion: The key to resolving burnout may not be working less but rather working more deliberately at the things that give us energy.
The middle of last month, my youngest daughter married a very nice young man. This was the last of our four girls to tie the knot, and the sig…
Hosts Alison Dagnes and Lawrence Eppard are joined by Kathleen Romig, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, t…
In this week's column, Master Gardener Julie Jacobson writes about the plants and trees you can use to attract birds to your yard.
In this week's column, Rick Windham writes about Nebraska's first hunting season of the year, squirrel.
For the people who are not immune to COVID-19, there are two ways to become immune: injection or infection. Those who choose the infection rat…
This and that:
To Dan Timm (letter to editor, July 30):
If you grew up listening to KRVN —“the best farm station in the nation!” — you might remember radio legend Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story.”
This letter is in response to Mitchel Rickett’s letter published July 24.
Responding to Mr. Touchy Feely’s letter to the editor (June 22), a while back Mr. Holscher, in an earlier letter, described himself as a touch…
Mitchel Rickett, (letter to the editor, July 24) you listed many, and I know of many more, injustices and horrors perpetrated upon Blacks, Ind…
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