No Saturdays off during football season in Nebraska

Saturday was a tire swing of different emotions, from scouting out Nebraska football’s future to living vicariously through another program’s success.

Call me old school, but I’d rather work from office

I spent some quality time at home alone a couple of weeks ago, not by choice, and found myself pondering a question I’d never considered until the pandemic rocked our world. Do I prefer working remotely, or at my desk in a traditional office environment?

COVID-19 affected us all in the end

The president can say that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, but the effects will stay with us.  The WHO and CDC are less enthusiastic than Joe Biden. People are still contracting and dying from the disease, about 54,000 cases and 347 death per day in the United States, according to the CDC on Friday.

ANR candidate profiles to offer insight on local elections

It’s 2022 election season again, or soon will be, which begs the question for local would-be voters as to whom shall I vote for, and why?

A tip of the hat to a trusted friend, mentor

Much to my father’s surprise, it was a hand-shake deal.  When Butch Furse offered to sell this newspaper to Paula and I 22 years ago we were living in Fremont, where I was pursuing a goal to become a daily newspaper publisher.

Husker Nation swallows tough pill, hoping tide will soon turn

Husker Nation watched with a mix of nostalgia and gloom Saturday as a once proud rivalry played out again in Lincoln, demonstrating in real time just how far both teams have evolved, in different directions.

Breaking up is hard

Sigh. This is hard.  Scott Frost was hired as Nebraska’s new head football coach on a sunny Saturday in December of 2017. It was a dream hire, one nearly every Nebraska fan, media member and booster put full support behind.  My excitement was palpable.

After 50 years of writing, columnist signing off

For the past 50 years I’ve been facing a deadline and now it’s time for me to move on while I’m still able to move. Putting it in blunt words, this will be the final issue of my Around the Square column.

State Fair offers up a genuine snapshot of Nebraska

Twelve years after lawmakers made a bold decision to move the Nebraska State Fair out of Lincoln, the event has become an anchor piece of the late summer calendar from its grand, Grand Island venue.

A special moment for the Boerkirchers

I had this nagging feeling watching the Nebraska game on Saturday that I was in the wrong place.  With too much going on around here, I decided against going to the game as a media member and instead watched from home.