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Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. ... It is my task,” he said, “to report the state of the Union - to improve it is the task of us all.” Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, there is much progress to report. After a decade of grinding war, our brave men and women in uniform are coming... Full story
Creek Valley High School’s girls’ basketball team has apparently found a home away from home, as in Sidney. After winning last month’s Minuteman Activities Conference championship on the Sidney Middle School floor, Bill Wilber’s Lady Storm were back at it again Tuesday night. Pulling off a mild postseason upset, Creek held off rival Potter-Dix, 49-46, in the Sidney D1-12 Subdistrict semifinal at Cabela’s Athletic Facility. “I guess we do like it here, don’t we?” Wilber cracked. Shaking off an... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fighting the problem of fake drugs will require putting medications through a chain of custody like U.S. courts require for evidence in a trial, the Institute of Medicine reported Wednesday. The call for a national drug tracking system comes a week after the Food and Drug Administration warned doctors, for the third time in about a year, that it discovered a counterfeit batch of the cancer drug Avastin that lacked the real tumor-killing ingredient. Fake and substandard drugs have become an increasing concern as U.S. p...
Your brain makes up less than 3 percent of your body weight yet, uses over 25 percent of your oxygen, more than 25 percent of its glucose and 20 percent of your blood supply. With tens of billions of neurons, and more than 100 billion cells, your brain is a million times more powerful than any computer! It has been said that our brain cells do not regenerate, so once gone that’s it! New research however is proving we do produce new brain cells well into adulthood! Good news! The bad news..stress hormones stunt new brain cell development. Seroto...
I wasn’t able to pilfer an advance copy of the president’s State of the Union address, but I hereby offer some guesses as to what he said. The president will assert, against the evidence, that the state of our union is strong. He will boast that during his first term, we averted another great depression, achieved history-making reforms of health care and banking, saved the auto industry and began to conclude two wars. He will caution though, that we face great challenges. Obama will acknowledge that our economy is not as vibrant as it cou...
I’ve never truly celebrated Valentine’s Day before. My mother would always get my brother and I some treats on the holiday but it was never a big event in my household. When I was younger and inquired as to why we rarely even gave the holiday recognition my father replied, “It’s a stupid holiday. If you love someone you should tell them everyday, not just once a year.” Even at a young age I understood this and thought that it was a good reason to boycott the holiday myself. My father also explained that kids my age had no idea what “love” me... Full story
LINCOLN - Senators clashed with some testifiers at the General Affairs Committee meeting Feb. 11 about their knowledge of the horseracing industry and proposals to help it make more money. LB73, introduced by Sen. Beau McCoy of Omaha, would change the number of live racing days required for a racetrack. Pat Loontjer, director of Gambling With The Good Life, said she was neutral on the bill but didn’t think the racing industry is really interested in the horses and just wants to hold a gambling license and to diminish the number of live r...
LINCOLN – School superintendents would no longer be required to have two years of classroom experience if the Education Committee passes a bill it heard Tuesday. Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha presented this bill (LB539) that would allow potential superintendent candidates to be hired without any teaching experience. Nobody else testified in favor of the bill, and three testified against it. “A superintendent is not a manager. A superintendent is not a teacher. A superintendent is not a men...
Following Tuesday night’s announcement that Councilman Aaron Barnes will be resigning from the Sidney City Council on Feb. 20, the Sidney City Council chose to open up the vacancy to any registered voter living in the Sidney City limits. A vacancy will be declared following acceptance of the resignation at the Feb. 20 city council meeting. The Council asked that a letter of interest along with a resume explaining the qualifications of prospective candidates be sent or brought to the City Manager’s office. Interested applicants should send the...
LINCOLN – “I k rite,” the text message read. That text message caused a life-changing car accident for 19-year-old Cedar Rapids native Erin Smith, who testified in support of a bill during the Transportation and Telecommunications Committee hearing Monday. Sen. John Harms of Scottsbluff presented the bill (LB118) that would make texting while driving a primary offense rather than the secondary offense it is now. Drivers can be ticketed for a secondary offense only if they have stopped for some other offense. Smith was among the nine who testifi...
The Wyo-Braska fourth through sixth grade basketball league is teaching kids the rules of the game, as well as personal growth. Eight Sidney boys’ and girls’ basketball teams have been competing against teams from around the Panhandle every Saturday since the beginning of January. The league lasts approximately a month and a half, according to Kasey Kantor, the Cheyenne County Community Center Sports Director. The girls and boys teams alternate each weekend so that every parent can watch the...
WASHINGTON — Republicans charged Wednesday that President Barack Obama delivered a State of the Union address studded with tired liberal notions and campaign-style hostility and said the speech did little to ease partisan tensions over issues like gigantic budget deficits. “An opportunity to bring together the country instead became another retread of lip service and liberalism,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the chamber floor, arguing that Obama offered little more than “gimmicks and tax hikes.” “Last night’s spe...
Just short of his second anniversary as Sidney Police Chief, David M. “Mike” Brown has submitted his resignation to Sidney City Council. He stood before the governing body to offer his official notice of leave at the Tuesday city council meeting, citing family health issues. “Family members of both me and my wife have some long-term health issues and it’s just something that had to be done.” With both families out of the state of Nebraska, Chief Brown said family, “just comes first for me and... Full story
LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman tapped former state Sen. Lavon Heidemann of Elk Creek Wednesday as his new lieutenant governor. Heidemann, a University of Nebraska regent, took the oath of office during a public ceremony at the Capitol. The 54-year-old Republican served as chairman of the Legislature's Appropriations Committee during his eight years in the Legislature. He left because of term limits. Heidemann replaces former Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy. Sheehy resigned earlier this month following news that he had made thousands of calls to w...
