Stories from Saturday, August 4, 2007

Red Willow County commissioners will discuss two recipients of county revolving loan funds at their weekly meeting Monday, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., in the commissioners' room on the third floor of the courthouse in McCook. The meeting will be adjourned for an 11 a.m. funeral, then reconvened...

The December ice storm cost the City of McCook more than $55,000, and it is being reimbursed nearly $50,000, according to city officials. The funding will be discussed at Monday's meeting of the McCook City Council, set for 7:30 p.m. in the council chambers at Memorial Auditorium...

Where has all the water gone? That is the question that Kansas is demanding to be answered so they can get their "fair share." Actually "they" know what happened to the water, it is consumed by irrigation that powers the economic engine of a fertile productive Southwest Nebraska. "They" don't care that if they demand and get their "fair share" it will wreak long term disaster to their neighbor...

A recent New York Times poll reveals that only 38 percent of the American people view the Republican Party favorably while 56 percent view it unfavorably with the remainder undecided, while 52 percent view the Democratic Party favorably, 41 percent unfavorably, and the remainder undecided. ...