Milton Orr looked across the rolling hills in northeast Tennessee. “I remember when we had over 1,000 dairy farms in this county. Now we have less than 40,” Orr, an agriculture adviser for Greene County, Tennessee, told me with a tinge of sadness.

In an Unprecedented Move, Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private Religious Schools

by Eli Hager

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In less than a month, early voting Nebraskans will cast ballots for the next president and a slate of other leaders who will make decisions that affect our lives.

Voting, unimpeded and, we hope, informed, is how we do things. And it works … even when some try to undo the results and subvert our democracy as they did in January 2021.

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s remote Merritt Reservoir State Recreation Area is gaining acclaim for its remoteness and “exceptionally dark skies.”

In July, a premier star-gazing event there, the Nebraska Star Party, was named the best location for “astrotourism” outside of Europe by the travel booking site, Omio.