Editorials

Every town has a slogan. For years now Alliance has been “building the best hometown in America.” If we aspire to be the best,

A common saying in the Sandhills is that we are always only two weeks away from a drought. 2020 has been a series of

Located at 212 Yellowstone Avenue, the Alliance Senior Center is a great facility that meets many the needs of senior citizens in Alliance. The

Slowing life down has been a revelation for me in several ways. I thought we would need to fill the gas tank when we

On a sunny afternoon in Broomfield,Colo., my family and I had just finished lunch when a friend of my wife joined us on the

Independence Day celebrations will look different this year but that doesn’t change our responsibility to recognize the sacrifices that allow us to live in

On my recent visit to the Kimball Recycling Center with other Keep Alliance Beautiful staff members, I found the facility much like I had

Twenty years ago Barbara Ehrenreich wrote the book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a ground-breaking book about income inequality in

In the last few months we have seen a major change in Nebraska’s unemployment rate due to COVID-19. February’s rate of 2.9% had risen

A few months ago I met Spud Rowley. Manager of the Kimball Recycling Center, he came by our recycling center to talk to my