I wonder how much the Democrats trust the voters in places like Grand Island, Scottsbluff, or Hastings. How much do they trust them to elect a Democrat to the Unicameral or a Republican who has the courage to stand up to Governor Pillen and will work to protect the so-called blue dot?

For that matter, how much do they trust Nebraska voters to elect Lynne Walz for Governor?

Because John Cavanaugh’s quest to win the Democratic nomination for the Second Congressional District hinges on the trust of Democratic and Independent voters for those out state areas to do just that.

There are few things in life as utterly humbling and emotionally jarring as parenthood. I am physically arrested, on a daily basis it seems, by the frustration and awe and hope and love that I feel for my daughters. In fact, it is maddening to me that we don’t have a better or more complete word to do the swell and crash of emotion justice than to simply say ‘love’. In the English language’s defense, it is just after midnight while I write this, and I just finished rewatching the 2014 hit ‘Interstellar’.

In politics, as in life itself, you win some and you lose some.

Congratulations to the Douglas County Republican Party. They were able to do something the Douglas County Democratic Party wished they could have done, but it wouldn’t have happened in their wildest dreams.

I am the product of a Catholic School education with a little bit of a Public School experience thrown in. I went to Benson when we moved to Omaha my junior year of High School. Prior to that, I spent ten years in Parochial schools. Next to my parents, Sister Marlene had the biggest influence on my young life. (The Beatles were the third biggest influence, but I digress.)