Simple Ways to Close the State Budget Gap Dismissed
Way back in the day, when I was in high school, I had a summer job of mopping floors at a local hospital.
Being a janitor was a really satisfying job because when you were done, you could easily see what you had accomplished, unlike a lot of other occupations.
Anyway, one of my compatriots on the broom was a guy named Howard Johnson. Howard was as big as an actual Howard Johnson’s and he had an axiom for work: “the simplest way is the best way.”
Nebraska Wildfires
When I headed home on Thursday afternoon, I thought that the focus of this week’s column would be the budget battle taking place in Lincoln.
That’s what I was prepared to write about.
Somewhere between Broken Bow and Dunning late Thursday afternoon, the focus for not just myself but thousands of other Nebraskans changed.
Fires began to break out across the state, the largest being in western Nebraska.