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 [...]

I was out of the office (and out of town, too) all last week, and as is often the case when we return from time off work, I spent most of Monday catching up on everything that happened in Central Nebraska. I thought it might be helpful to round it up for you as well: [...]

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 [...]