I forgot what it was like to round up a group of kids. This pack was especially chaotic – probably the whole kidnapped for forced mining labor and then some strange amazonian woman beating their captors to death in front of them thing, but they might just be hungry. We line them up and walk them toward the front of the bus. The red-headed kid pipes up yet again.

It must be nice to be a Republican Senator these days. You get all the perks of being a Senator, but you don’t really have to do your job. You just do whatever the President tells you to do.

Pete Ricketts and Deb Fischer did just that once again.

What is the American Dream? 

I have heard of it as “owning a house, surrounded by a white-picket fence, with a family you love inside.”

I’ve been thinking about this for a while.  

Does Omaha need to get it’s groove back? 

Or has the old excitement become so normal that it’s just not as noticeable anymore.  Has all the road construction dampened our enthusiasm for progress? 

About twenty years ago or so there was a real buzz about Omaha.  We had just built the arena and convention center. We were building a new stadium with a 25 year guarantee the College World Series would stay in town. Events like the Olympic swim trials, brought new luster and international attention to our fair city.