Confronting change: Lessons from a brave and proud people
October 16, 2020
Melissa Garcia reflects on a pre-pandemic trip to Panama, and lessons from indigenous peoples in an era of disruption and change.
Midwest living
September 25, 2020
Nebraskans have taken to the streets to protest racial injustice and discrimination. We should pay attention and seek to understand why.
My country, right or wrong?
September 18, 2020
Andy Long asked his social network what true patriotism meant to them. The responses displayed a diversity of thought – and a unity of purpose.
In our new normal, a new definition of ‘self-control’
August 28, 2020
We must acknowledge we have no control over many things in our lives – and we can turn our attention to what we *can* control, Jordan Martin writes.
How change hangs in the balance (and the imbalance)
August 7, 2020
Without hope, we will never take the first meaningful step forward. And without conviction, we will settle for a lesser compromise.
An echo in time and marching through history
July 24, 2020
Will 2020 be one of those years someone reads about in a history book and admires our tenacity and recovery?
Overcoming bias and putting in the sweat equity
July 17, 2020
Liz Codina on putting irrational thoughts aside during the pandemic – and recommitting to build strong communities wherever we may be.
Confronting racism’s legacy, from town to country
June 19, 2020
It is important for all Nebraskans, but especially for those of us who were raised away from cities and unaware of our state’s history of racism, to come to grips with this reality.
Atop our voices: Listening, learning, and acting for community
May 29, 2020
As individuals in a larger system, we can help nurture a culture of caring, consideration, and thoughtful compromise – but that takes a consistent pattern of communication over time.
In Exeter-Milligan’s ‘electoral college,’ lessons in civic health
February 28, 2020
The commons area at Exeter-Milligan school is bustling for a winter Wednesday lunch hour. Usually, it’s a walkthrough from the cafeteria this time of day, but it’s voting
George Norris, the Great War, and political courage
February 14, 2020
Though I grew up 90 miles away in Grant, probably the first time I heard about McCook’s George Norris was in college. It wasn’t in history class, though.
One nation, individual
January 17, 2020
A group that thrives on individualism. Sounds like something of a contradiction, doesn’t it? How can the group prosper if it’s focused on the individual? It’s something of
