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Medicaid expansion would hurt state priorities
(Column ~ 03/11/13)
The Nebraska Legislature recently held a public hearing on LB 577, a bill to bring President Obama's massive unfunded Medicaid expansion to Nebraska. To no one's surprise, liberal advocacy groups have voiced support for the optional expansion, but ultimately it would be at the expense of our state priorities, including education. What you don't hear from them is a discussion about the enormous and unsustainable costs of this expansion and who's going to pay for it...
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Gary L. Rogers
(Obituary ~ 03/11/13)
Gary L. Rogers March 21, 1939 - March 9, 2013 BEAVER CITY, Nebraska -- Gary L. Rogers, 73, of Beaver City, died Saturday (March 9, 2013), at the Beaver City Manor. He was born March 21, 1939, in Glendale, California, to Clarence E. and Jessie E. (Juelfs) Rogers...
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Carolyn F. Rosenfelt
(Obituary ~ 03/11/13)
Carolyn F. Rosenfelt Oct 4, 1931 - March 8, 2013 BENKELMAN, Nebraska -- Carolyn F. Rosenfelt, 81, died Friday (March 8, 2013), at Community Hospital of McCook. She was born in Menlo, Kansas, on Oct 4, 1931, to Ottis and Esther (Thieler) Cogdill. She attended school in Kansas...
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Marjorie Reisher
(Obituary ~ 03/11/13)
Marjorie Reisher BENKELMAN, Nebraska --Marjorie Reisher, 91, died Friday (March 8, 2013), at the Dundy County Hospital. Survivors include her brother, Glenn Ellis and wife, Betty, of Benkelman; brother-in-law, Roger Reisher and wife, Margaret, of Denver, Colorado and many nieces and nephews...
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Eric 'Trotter' Moore
(Obituary ~ 03/11/13)
Eric 'Trotter' Moore Jan. 2, 1959 - March 7, 2013 MANHATTAN, Kansas -- Eric "Trotter" Moore went home to his heavenly Father, March 7, 2013, at the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Manhattan. Eric was born Jan. 2, 1959, in Oberlin, Kansas, the son of Melvin Moore and Dorothy (Reith) Moore. He graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1977 and Kansas State University in 1982 with a degree in ag economics...
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On the record
(Other Record ~ 03/11/13)
This information is gathered at the McCook Public Safety Center, the McCook office of the Nebraska State Patrol, the Red Willow County Courthouse, the Red Willow County Sheriff's Office and the McCook Humane Society. Police activity Activity log...
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Important hearings scheduled
(Column ~ 03/11/13)
This week I would first like to say thank you to all of you who stopped by the Capitol while in Lincoln for the Girls and Boys State Basketball Tournaments. It is always a great opportunity to meet and catch up with people from the district. If you are in Lincoln for any reason, please feel free to stop in my office...
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Served ice-cold
(Local News ~ 03/11/13)
This bird feeder on Peggy Rawn's deck in Bartley serves up a layer of ice crystals for her fine-feathered friends.The McCook Daily Gazette would love to showcase your weather photos. Readers can contribute to our daily weather page, subject to space and color availability, by emailing photos to editor2@ocsmccook.com or bringing them into the Gazette offices at West First and E Streets. ...
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Plea agreement reached in string of burglaries
(Local News ~ 03/11/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- A plea agreement was reached in Red Willow County District Court with the second burglar arrested in connection with several November burglaries. The offender, 18-year-old Matthew J. Clinton of McCook, admitted guilt to two Class III felony burglary offenses, one Class IV felony criminal mischief offense, and three misdemeanor offenses of criminal mischief...
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McCook farmer wins $5,000 for McCook Pantry, College Foundation
(Local News ~ 03/11/13)
McCOOK, Nebraska -- Thanks to Monsanto and the John Palic family, two gifts of $2,500 each were presented to McCook entities. John and Melinda Palic were selected as winners in the America's Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund and they chose the McCook Pantry and the McCook College Foundation as recipients...
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College seeks input for evaluation
(Local News ~ 03/11/13)
NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Mid-Plains Community College is seeking comments from the public about the college in preparation for its periodic evaluation by its regional accrediting agency. The college will host a visit April 24-26 with a team representing the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association...
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Tickets still available for benefit concert
(Local News ~ 03/11/13)
McCook, Nebraska--Tickets are still available for a Concert for Cancer Care Saturday, March 16, sponsored by Community Hospital and Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, The country western concert presents the Great Plains Opry featuring Nashville's award-winning Collin Raye as a guest celebrity at the McCook historic Fox Theater at 7:30 p.m...
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Winter landscape
(Local News ~ 03/11/13)
A predicted blizzard didn't turn out to be as bad as predicted in Southwest Nebraska, but any precipitation is welcome. Even a major snowstorm would not have lasted long, with temperatures expected to climb into the 70s later this week.
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The Chautauqua
(Column ~ 03/11/13)
For many many years, before there was television, one very popular forms of entertainment in communities across the land was the traveling tent show. These productions set up in vacant lots in cities and small towns for a day or two, to as much as a week, providing live entertainment for young and old alike. ...
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Ohio tragedy reminder of teenage dangers
(Column ~ 03/11/13)
It's an all-too-common story, but few fatal accidents involving teens are as horrific as the one Sunday morning in a small town near Youngstown, Ohio. A 19-year-old woman was driving an SUV -- taken without permission -- at a "high rate of speed" when it struck a guardrail and flipped over into a swampy pond...
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Robert Nation
(Obituary ~ 03/11/13)
Robert Nation Feb. 22, 1977 - March 10, 2013 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Robert Nation, 36, died Sunday (March 10, 2013), near Pueblo, Colorado, as the result of a motor vehicle accident Services are pending with Carpenter Breland Funeral Home in McCook.
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