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 [...]

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 [...]

In a presentation to the Grand Island Rotary Club on Tuesday, John Jordison of the rural-focused group Nebraska Renaissance outlined a strategy to boost Nebraska’s population to 2 million by 2020. (It’s at about 1.78 million right now.) The strategy, from a study (PDF) commissioned by the group last month, is remarkably thorough, with 47 [...]