Recently, 91 soldiers from C Troop, 134th Cavalry Regiment returned home to Beatrice after spending almost a year deployed overseas to perform Operations “Spartan Shield” in Kuwait. I am so pleased the troops will be home for Christmas. That is such a blessing. I have spent several Christmas holidays overseas on a deployment and I […]

In the last two years, the Nebraska legislature has taken steps to empower taxpayers to have more clout as schools, cities and counties prepare their annual budgets. The idea is to save property taxpayers some money — to better balance higher costs with the taxpayers’ ability to pay them. In 2022, for the first time […]

This week, senators will be convening at the University of Nebraska Innovation Campus for the annual Legislative Council meeting — the first gathering of the entire legislature since the session adjourned on June 1. The primary purpose of the meeting is to let the speaker address his agenda for the coming session and allow members […]

As my final session in the Nebraska legislature looms large on the calendar, my office is busy preparing proposed legislation for introduction in January. One of the projects that I hope to complete before leaving office is reforming how we approach school security in Nebraska. In order to draft the best bill possible, I introduced […]

The COVID-19 pandemic is over. It has been over for quite some time, and now we are beginning to see what kind of damage some of our bad government decisions have done to our economy, to our society, and to our workforce.  The government shutdowns that occurred during the days of the pandemic have done more […]