In 2012, when I arrived at the Kearney Hub from an upper-middle-class suburb of Cleveland, I didn’t know a combine from a cockroach, but I kne…
I know I have too much stuff in my life, ranging from trash to treasure to why did I save that! That was clear the past week as I emptied my K…
We got locked out of our house on Saturday night. But let’s back up. We were on the road all day Saturday. It was the final basketball tournam…
THE AUTHOR Sarah Morgan Smith is director of faculty at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University and editor of Ashbrook’s compendium “Gender …
I never will forget the nurse who hurried out into the snowy parking lot at the Buffalo County Fairgrounds one afternoon in late January. I wa…
I went to the Hub archives for a reminder of what was going on with COVID-19 a year ago. The Feb. 26, 2020, front page has photos of sandhill …
Opinion: I have never met a kind person I disliked, even if I disagreed with their politics or we had no interests in common.
Episode 8: Also discussed is whether boycotts are an effective tactic to get companies to change their policies and why we should consider inc…
There is a new trend going around with the young-uns. I’m not sure if it’s the trend that shows my age, or the fact that I just used the word …
Yes, Lori, snow is a mindset. That’s what Lori Potter theorized in her Feb. 12 column, “Surviving our winter cold.” I confirmed that Tuesday a…
Impeachment proceedings and penalties are different than criminal or civil trials, but U.S. senators still act as jurors. So as I watched on T…
I was as lost as Dorothy and Toto in Oz. That’s how I felt Jan. 31 when I found myself plunked down inside a swarm of blue-jeaned, cowboy-hatt…
THE AUTHOR is from Gothenburg and represents District 36 in the Nebraska Legislature.
As I drove to work early Monday morning, I noticed the mist-covered crescent moon. It was the first clear thing in the sky, day or night, afte…
Opinion: The question that faces us as a nation is whether America will be defined by its best qualities or its worst.
Episode 7: Other topics include whether news stories about relatively minor crimes should stay online forever, and which tactics work best whe…
I made a birthday cake this week for my mom. It was supposed to be three tiers, with a dainty happy birthday sign on top. But I was in a hurry…
I was so stressed Jan. 10 that I rearranged my kitchen cupboards. As I did, I raced in and out of the living room to watch the TV screen. Thir…
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. I saw him Dec. 24. My saga started on Dec. 23, when I got up before dawn to fly from Kearney to Dulles …
Several traits identify native Nebraskans. On the food front, we’ve always known about Runzas and a chili soup-cinnamon roll combo because the…
Opinion: The key thing to understand is that fairness is not about the outcomes, it is about the process whereby the outcomes are achieved.
Episode 6: We ask a physician whether challenge trials — intentionally exposing people to the virus — would have sped up vaccine development a…
A year ago, in late December, I stood in a dim gallery in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and read the Declaration of Independenc…
It happened so fast. And this time, it’s not even fair. She’s been living under my roof for more than 12 years. And during the past 10 months,…
One hot March afternoon in 2003, Ed Daniels and I trekked through a middle-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, as …
I hadn’t been at the Kearney Area Animal Shelter for years, until I interviewed Executive Director Olivia Derr and took photos last Friday for…
Opinion: For decades we have told our youth to “stay true to yourself” and “stick up for what you believe,” as if there were some virtue in st…