I’ve covered several school bond issues over the past three years, and I often get questions from people in one town about how things happened in another town. Many of the area’s bond issues center on the same few general issues — “Think of the children!” vs. “But is now the right time?” is a big [...]

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 [...]

One of the regular routines of the Central Nebraska beat involves going through many of the area’s weekly newspapers for nuggets of news. Sometimes those nuggets are splashed across the front page, and other times they’re hidden in the tiny print of public meeting minutes or even advertisements. I don’t typically report on many of [...]

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 [...]