Stories from Saturday, April 26, 2008

If you haven't yet celebrated Arbor Day by planting a tree, there are some things to think about before you head toward the nursery. As the Norris Park situation in McCook has demonstrated, Nebraska has lost nearly half of its community forest resources, according to the University of Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources...

Good move at the McCook City Council meeting last Monday. The council rejected, and soundly, a proposed new tax, couched as a "fee" as if that would make it less objectionable, on cell phone service. Evidently a similar "fee" assessed against telephone land lines has been decreasing in revenue produced for city coffers. ...

If someone would have told me twenty five years ago that, at this stage in my life, I would be single, living alone in an apartment, and teaching at a community college in McCook, Nebraska, I would have, at the worst, went looking for a gun, and at best, considered myself an abject failure...