Earlier this week, the great rural blog The Daily Yonder posted a cool map of government data of average compensation in rural counties (includes wages, employer contributions for pension plans, insurance plans, government social insurance and bonuses). Here’s the post and a larger version of the map. The data is from 2008, which might be a [...]
Aventine Renewable Energy has announced its plans to finish the Aurora West ethanol plant sometime in 2011.
When state Sen. Annette Dubas of Fullerton announced last month that she is filing to run for re-election to the Legislature from Dist. 34* in 2010, she said she didn’t plan on doing anything different than what she’s already doing — attending public events, meeting with constituents and generally remaining visible within the district. (She repeated that assertion [...]
A nice, quiet weekend shift on Saturday gave me plenty of time to check in on what’s going on around Central Nebraska. Here’s a few items I found noteworthy — I wrote this on Saturday, and I must have been hungry. (An explanation of Nebraska Notes is here.) Albion (and Ord) — The Albion News reports that city [...]
Monday was a pretty cheerful first day of school for Gibbon students, with a new $18 million, 139,000-square-foot building to explore. But longtime business and technology teacher Linda Brodine wasted no time impressing on her students that with such a shiny new toy comes a lot of responsibility, too. Gibbon’s taxpayers have made an incredible investment [...]
Mark Coddington is The Independent's Regional Beat reporter covering a large area of Central Nebraska.