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Editorial

From Formula to Fuel, Biden’s Economic Crisis

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American families across the country are grappling with increasing costs and economic uncertainty. Last week, the Consumer Price Index confirmed costs of household items, energy, and services have risen by more than 8 percent, on average, over the last 12 months. Consumers are tightening their budgets, purchasing less, choosing generic groceries more, and often going without. According to an April Morning Consult survey, 61 percent of grocery shoppers said they had difficulty finding certain items.

ROLLING OUT THE DOUGH

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Rolling, rolling, rolling, keep that pie dough rolling! That was the chant Sunday afternoon as the 4-H Café Pie Crust Crew gathered at the 4-H Exhibit Building for Step One of making the classic 4-H Café pies. Each year during the Dawson County Fair

ADD HABOOB TO MY 2022 WEATHER BINGO CARD

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As if the weather in 2022 hasn’t already been crazy enough, Thursday I was able to add yet another event to my weather bingo card, a haboob.

Restoring a Culture of Life

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In the 49 years since the Roe v. Wade decision, the pro-life movement has displayed remarkable commitment and resolve. Decades of steady, grassroots efforts by pro-life advocates are yielding not just state-level legislation which recognizes the humanity of unborn children but a growing culture of life which seeks to compassionately connect with expectant mothers who lack support.

Traveling the Third

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While traveling in the Third District in recent weeks, I have been encouraged by the expertise and creativity our communities possess and sobered by the challenges we face. We have much to be thankful for, but there is also no shortage to the adversity we must overcome.

IT’S HUG AND CRY TIME AGAIN

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It’s been three years since I actively covered a graduation ceremony, the time-honored rite of passage that was so rudely interrupted in 2020 and 2021 by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advancing Health Innovation

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For rural communities to survive and thrive, they need access to many of the same resources larger cities do—groceries, energy, broadband, and health care among them. To address the health care needs of rural seniors, Medicare has numerous special provisions, including a hospital category for Critical Access Hospitals (CAH)—facilities with 25 or fewer beds in communities distant from the next-closest hospital. This week I met with the Nebraska Hospital Association and the Critical Access Hospital Coalition to discuss how we can ensure Nebraskans have access to quality health care services. Nebraska’s Third District has the second most Critical Access Hospitals in this country, and my constituents rely on the care CAH facilities provide. Without CAHs, Nebraskans would not receive the same level of care.

SOAKING UP THE MAY RAIN AND SNOW

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After enduring a five-month drought the prayers of many throughout our part of Nebraska were answered beginning Thursday evening and continuing through Monday night as first thunderstorms and then gentle soaking rains came.

Avoidable Delays at the IRS

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As most Americans returned to normal, bureaucrats at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) refused to fully reopen the agency, despite heading into tax season with a backlog of more than 20 million tax returns. While this backlog has grown, calls to the IRS have also gone unanswered, leaving families and small businesses to navigate a complicated maze of red tape resulting from Democrats’ massive stimulus package on their own. Americans deserve to have their tax filings processed in a timely manner. Instead, the IRS is mired in delays. Further, economic recovery under the Biden administration is foundering, and, rather than build on successful reforms of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Democrats are dead set on a tax and spend agenda that will only exacerbate challenges like inflation and slow wage growth.

WORLD WITHOUT RECLINERS? UNTHINKABLE!

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“How did we survive as a human raced before recliners were invented?” asked Hubby, as he gratefully sank into his recliner last summer after a long day at the county fair.