Stories from Saturday, December 27, 2008

There's no reason to celebrate yet, but an arbitrator's decision that Kansas could collect for only what it allegedly lost in the Republican River conflict with Nebraska stands to reason. Kansas is seeking $72 million in damages for alleged Nebraska overuse of river water in 2005 and 2006...

Christmas was a wonderful holiday when I was growing up in Arkansas. Although I was raised in a religious home (Southern Baptist and Assembly of God), it was celebrated more in a secular way than a religious way; at least that's the way I remember it...

A series of news stories in the Gazette last summer about early aviation in McCook fascinated the two surviving daughters of Steve Tuttle, the pilot of the "Newsboy" airplane that the Daily Gazette used in 1929 and 1930 as the first newspaper in the world to deliver its daily paper by air...