Editorial

Editorial #61 Marijuana Legalization April 23, 2019

The Nebraska Legislature is contemplating another dilemma, the question of legalizing marijuana. LB 657 sponsored by Senator Justin Wayne proposes the plant be a cash crop for farmers with uses ranging from providing a replacement for plastic ropes and packaging materials to medicinal applications to reduce pain. As with most laws, there are no perfect solutions from any new regulation.

The arguments used to support this are the standard lists: other states have approved it,

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Editorial #60 Invasions and why they happen.

The news is filled with threats, foreign and domestic with most of us scratching our heads wondering what to do about it. Everyone wants peace and tranquility but that only comes when we work for it. It is not automatic. The sad part about life: it is hard. Survival requires energy as entropy is always at work making things as random and disorganized as possible, requiring our hard work to keep things going normally.

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Editorial #59 Taxes and better politicians April 16, 2019

This is the time of year where, besides the weather, taxes are on everyone’s mind. Taxes are the only way any community, state or country can function, providing things we need, like things as simple as water, roads and security.

Politicians are always looking for ways to raise that money in a way that is fair and equitable, with the least amount of pain to the tax payer.

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Editorial #58 The Drive Regain Normality, April 11, 2019

The desire to get things back to normal after our epic floods of March is natural. Situations in our life always center around the average with the never ending need to invest energy and resources to keep things as close to normal as possible. In physics there is a principle known as entropy where everything wants to naturally reach a state of randomness and disorder.

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Editorial #56 Diversity and Fake News April 9, 2019

This seems to be the time of year where entire months are dedicated, by someone, to recognize certain groups, professions, ethic classes or sexual orientation categories and declare that diversity is a blessing. I have not been able to figure out who makes these declarations or what are we are supposed to do once these recognitions are announced.

In this age of political correctness,

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Editorial #57A Political Responsibility April 2, 2019

It is always in times of adversity that weak links in any system are exposed. These weaknesses were made perfectly apparent with the devastating floods we experienced in March. In any emergency there is an expectation that decisions will be made quickly. These decisions are not unique or unusual. They are time tested and proven to be the best given the situation. This is why it is so important to have elected officials have real business experience before being elected.

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Editorial #55 The Great Flood Continued March 28, 2019

The flood disaster of the past few weeks brings out the best and the worst of humankind. It brings out the latent generosity of those who believe in the golden rule, but also brings those with the irresistible temptations to exploit the situation as well.

The difficult part about getting help to those in need is the infrastructure to implement such a massive undertaking is not something that can be taken out of storage when the need arrives.

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Editorial #54 Ask Not What…. March 26, 2019

As the field of candidates running for president grows, efforts to differentiate themselves is becoming increasingly more difficult. They all seek to have as many commonalities with the voters as possible, trying to be all things to all people.
The logic behind this approach may be sound, but unworkable. If you stand for everything, you are actually standing for nothing. The only common theme is: who can give away the most money to the people who didn’t earn it.

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Editorial #52A Inside the Political Club, March 21, 2019

To paraphrase an old Yogi Berra euphemism: They are so busy there they are not getting anything done anymore. This seems applies to our legislature. There were over a 1000 bills introduced this session, with issue like mountain lions, prairie dogs, gender issues, making more environmental regulations or the bits of outrage when a senator called The American Flag a rag, all debated. This session is half over with less than 1% of all proposals and less than 5% of the time spent on taxes.

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Editorial #53 The Flood March 19, 2019

With the nearly unprecedented natural disaster of last week, the things that are truly important in life are suddenly brought into focus. It is sad that these events have to happen for us all to realizing how precious life is and how things can happen in an instant that completely changes everything.

There is no one to blame as twenty-twenty hindsight is always nearly perfect.

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