Opinion

Beth Sparrow is one of the co-owners of the Nance County Journal. Read her column each week in the newspaper and on the website.

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Wrestling & February holidays

Beth Sparrow

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

On the front page, I wrote an article on state wrestling. I have been watching wrestling literally my entire life, or as long as I can remember. I went to state wrestling last year. Here is my opinion: As media, we cover classes C and D and girls.

Alan’s Anecdotes

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Alan’s Anecdotes

Alan Sparrow

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

I’m a big fan of a radio personality from Iowa on Blaze Media named Steve Deace. I’ve learned a lot from him about polling, politics, and putting faith to work in everyday life. He has a statement that I have struggled with. He says: “We are not a nation of laws, and we never have been.

J.L. Schmidt has been covering Nebraska government and politics since 1979. He has been a registered Independent for more than 20 years.

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Governor vows to cut property taxes by $2 billion, somehow

J.L. Schmidt

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

I was not shocked, just disappointed when Governor Jim Pillen announced that he was going to reduce Nebraska’s collective property taxes by $2 billion this year, somehow. Imagine that.

Rick Holtz is one of the co-owners of the Nance County Journal. Read his column each week in the newspaper and on the website.

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Say what you mean and mean what you say

Rick Holtz

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

My daughter, Penny, finds it funny that I am not the most limber person out there. Well, last week she would have been pretty amazed at how flexible I have become. I managed to find a way to put my foot squarely in my mouth.

Beth Sparrow is one of the co-owners of the Nance County Journal. Read her column each week in the newspaper and on the website.

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Dishwasher woes

Beth Sparrow

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Our old dishwasher finally gave up. It basically stopped cleaning the dishes. It still ran, but you ended up washing dishes after it was supposed to wash dishes. We estimated it to be 20 years old so figured it was time for a new one.

Loren Lippincott represents Legislative District 34 in the Nebraska State Senate. Read his column in the Nance County Journal.

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Chaplains in Nebraska schools

Loren Lippincott

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

While campaigning for this senate seat in 2022, the number one question on many people’s minds was “What is happening in today’s schoolhouses?

Do you have alert fatigue?

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Do you have alert fatigue?

Alan Sparrow

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

I think I was pretty young when I was introduced to Aesop’s Fables. One of the more famous ones is the story of the boy who cried wolf. In the story, a boy cries out that there is a wolf, but it was a lie. The town’s people came out to rescue him but find that there was no wolf.

J.L. Schmidt has been covering Nebraska government and politics since 1979. He has been a registered Independent for more than 20 years.

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I like the idea of the legislature running the prison system

J.L. Schmidt

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Omaha Senator Justin Wayne, chair of the Judiciary Committee, has offered a bill that would put Nebraska’s Legislature in charge of the state’s prison system, which is currently under the purview of the executive branch.

Rick Holtz is one of the co-owners of the Nance County Journal. Read his column each week in the newspaper and on the website.

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Snow causes delays, confusion and cabin fever

Rick Holtz

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

It’s good to be out again. In my nearly 20 years in the newspaper business, I cannot remember a snow storm that completely shut things down like the one that hit central Nebraska last week. Sure, there would be snow days here and there — but that storm knocked me off my game.

Alan’s Anecdotes

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Are you a CID person?

Alan Sparrow

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

When I was in college, I learned a lot about leadership. I managed cleaning on campus before moving to Nebraska to get into IT. In the summer we took crews of students around to different parts of campus to clean what we couldn’t during the school year.