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    With apologies to companies that build the tennis barns that already exist in Woods Park, they are ugly. They are barns, pure and simple, and in no way add to a peaceful green space within a city.

      On Purple Heart Day, which was Aug. 7, we noted that the Major Richard Star Act, which gives full disability retirement pay to 50,000 severely combat-injured, is the most cosponsored bill in Congress. But not by Reps. Adrian Smith and Mike Flood.

        In May, the Nebraska Legislature made K-12 education better by finally passing Nebraska’s first school choice program to empower more families, especially lower-income families, to choose the right education for their children.

          Decades of excessive spending, paid with debt, are hitting America’s credit rating. On Aug. 1, Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States federal government’s rating from AAA, the best, to AA+, one notch below. Fitch blamed “the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, the erosion of governance” and two decades of “debt standoff” over raising the debt ceiling.

          Alicia Mohondro lost her home in the wildfire that tore through the western Maui community of Lahaina. She says she received no warnings before she was forced to flee amid heavy smoke and flames and hopes the disaster will lead to a change in the alert system. 'The fire was so fast, it was a…

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          In the recent point/counterpoint over the next farm bill (LJS, July 30), neither Benjamin Powell nor Lily Roberts mentioned the impact of our trade policy on foreign countries. The question I ask is this: Does subsidized agriculture bring immigrants to our border?

          With apologies to companies that build the tennis barns that already exist in Woods Park, they are ugly. They are barns, pure and simple, and in no way add to a peaceful green space within a city.

          On Purple Heart Day, which was Aug. 7, we noted that the Major Richard Star Act, which gives full disability retirement pay to 50,000 severely combat-injured, is the most cosponsored bill in Congress. But not by Reps. Adrian Smith and Mike Flood.

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