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Editorial

ENROLLMENT FOR MEDICARE IS NOW OPEN

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Each year, open enrollment for Medicare begins on October 15th and runs through December 7th. This process occurs annually to safeguard continued competition on premiums and benefits among insurers; using the marketplace to drive down costs and improve consumer access. Open enrollment provides seniors with the opportunity to switch their current Medicare Part D prescription plan to take advantage of lower rates and plan options that better meet their needs resulting from competition and price negotiation by participating insurers. It also allows individuals to consider whether they want to choose a new Medicare Advantage insurance plan or participate in traditional Medicare Parts A and B. With open enrollment

E. R. Purcell Remembers Newspaper Career In Custer County

“I have recently rounded out 50 years of newspaper work in Custer County,” wrote Emerson R. Purcell in late 1942, shortly after the publication of the golden anniversary edition of his Custer County Chief of Broken Bow. In reminiscences on file at the Nebraska State Historical Society, he said: “Perhaps I can better convey to you the conditions that confronted the publishers of the pioneer days by a little of my own experience.”

GREEN TOMATO PICKLES AND OTHER POST-FROST GOODIES

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Depending on how your green thumb worked this year, you might be faced with a garage or basement full of post-frost garden goodies. This week I thought I would share some recipes that are among my go-tos for using up those tag ends of produce that you just can’t leave to freeze.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH

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Seeing young Nebraskans serving their communities, whether it is through scout troops, churches, community organizations, or just young Nebraskans coming together independently, is inspiring. It shows they understand opportunities to volunteer and serve their community do not have to wait until adulthood. In order to help foster young people’s desire to serve their communities, I offer a number of opportunities to engage with government through my office.

The Last Buffalo And Other Hunting Stories

When A. N. Ward reminisced about his early hunting exploits with a reporter from the Omaha World-Herald in 1910, he recalled the days when the Nebraska prairie abounded with wild game. Ward, according to census records, was seventy years of age and had lived in the vicinities of first Arapahoe, and then Milford, for nearly half a century. The Sunday World-Herald’s account of his hunting yarns, published on October 2, 1910, noted:

READY OR NOT HERE IT COMES

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Remember those games of Hide ‘N Seek enjoyed as a youngster? As the person who was “It” conducted the numerical countdown, he or she would end with the phrase, “Ready or not, here I come?”

IGNORING A CRISIS

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Last week while appearing at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee, President Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed, “the border is secure.” Anyone who has read a newspaper or watched a newscast could tell you it isn’t, yet the Biden Administration insists it is. Enough is enough; they cannot ignore the border crisis.

A Haunted House In Omaha:

“Does superstition embarrass investment in real estate?” asked the Omaha Sunday Bee on September 24th, 1899. “There never was a landlord or rental agent who managed many estates or properties but had to contend with this more or less knotty problem.” The tale told to a Bee reporter by an unnamed Omaha real estate agent who had faced such a quandary, may be of special interest as Halloween approaches:

Flashbacks:

October 1961

THE LOOMING CLIFF

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This week the House of Representatives passed a bill which would raise the debt limit to allow unlimited new spending through most of 2022 and provide short-term funding for the government until December 3. The bill, which was passed on a partyline vote, now heads to the Senate without a bipartisan agreement in place to ensure passage. Meanwhile, Democrats’ primary focus remains their arbitrary deadline to ram through President Biden’s expansive tax and spending package. These factors are quickly colliding with economic reality.