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Rick Holtz

Rick Holtz

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Electoral certification played a cruel joke

News Staff
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
This week our nation moved one step closer to a second Trump Administration.On Monday, Jan. 6, Congress had to certify the results of last November’s election. I’m into that sort of thing, so I watch along online as the House and the Senate counted the electoral vote.
View From the Sideline

View From the Sideline

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View From the Sideline

Rick Holtz
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
As we enter the new year, I have a simple question for you: Are you better today than you were yesterday?I know it is an open-ended question. Better at what?Anything. Everything. The question stems from the idea what the only constant in life is that everything is changing.
Representing You

Representing You

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Representing You

Loren Lippincott
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
With the opening of the 2025 session of the Nebraska Legislature only days away on Jan. 8, I have been asked several questions by constituents and members of the media about the upcoming session. In this column I will list some of those questions and my responses.

LETTER: Reader imagines interaction with Sen. Lippincott

News Staff
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
I just read Loren Lippincott’s column recommending Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. It put me in mind if a dialogue Captain Lippincott might have had with a passenger while flying his plane.Passenger: I have some really good ideas about how you should fly this plane.
Loren Lippincott

Loren Lippincott

New choices ahead in education

Loren Lippincott
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
With America’s education system coming under fire at all levels regarding everything from declining academic standards to the indoctrination of woke ideologies by government-sponsored schools, it’s obvious a new direction is needed.
Rick Holtz

Rick Holtz

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Don’t leave Christmas in December

Rick Holtz
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
We are days away from changing over to a new year and putting a new calendar on the wall.Don’t leave Christmas in December. Take it with you into January and beyond.It is so easy to take down the Christmas tree and put all the decorations back into storage.
Rick Holtz is just a big kid at heart. On Sunday, he even wore a chicken costume at his church's Christmas children's program.

Rick Holtz is just a big kid at heart. On Sunday, he even wore a chicken costume at his church's Christmas children's program.

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Christmas through the eyes of a child . . . sort of

Rick Holtz
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Churches all over the nation have been gearing up for Christmas. It is one of the few days where people who may not regularly attend a service will find themselves in a pew.Last weekend our church held the children’s Christmas program, and it went off wonderfully.
Traveling’s greatest gifts are the people you meet

Traveling’s greatest gifts are the people you meet

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Traveling’s greatest gifts are the people you meet

Paul Hammel
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
My family has always loved to travel.Whether it was camping trips, a road trip to the 1967 World’s Fair in Montreal, or a drive to the Black Hills to see relatives, we could put some miles on the family car.My dad was exposed early to international travelers.