Stories from Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator Max Baucus of Montana, released its proposal for health care reform. I am still reading through it to analyze and determine how this will affect the health care of Nebraskans. However, I have already discovered some details of great concern...

July 9, 1924 - Sept. 21, 2009 CURTIS -- Leroy Roudebush, 85, died Monday (Sept. 21, 2009) at his home in Curtis. He was born July 9, 1924, to James and Erma (Franklin) Roudebush at Rushville, Ill. He attended and graduated from Rushville High School in 1943...

The public is invited to a lunch and groundbreaking ceremony at Community Hospital on Sunday, September 27 on the hospital front lawn. Lunch is from 12 -- 12:45 p.m. The groundbreaking ceremony, which features McCook native and U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson as the main speaker, begins at 1 p.m...

It may be cheaper for the city to build a sidewalk along U.S. Highways 6-34 and 83 to Walmart, instead of a walking trail that uses some state funds. The McCook City Council gave its go-ahead for city staff to talk with a consultant with the Transportation Enhancement Program, an agency of the Nebraska Department of Roads that oversees trail grants, to see what options are available...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced a commitment to insure a mortgage loan to Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Cambridge to construct a new 16-bed hospital to replace an existing 51-year-old facility and fund relocation of a primary care clinic to the new facility...

It's a problem that won't go away. The latest proof is the arrest of a shuttle bus driver at Denver International Airport who, along with his father and a New York man were allegedly part of a wide al Qaeda bomb plot targeting mass transit systems in the United States...

Problem No. 4 with the Model -- Predicted vs Actual The software much of the world uses to model aquifers was written by Michael McDonald. Nebraska hired McDonald/Morrissey Associates as Nebraska's experts in the dispute with Kansas. Nebraska has hired many experts and attorneys. ...

It is a wonderful time to drive through the Rockies west from Denver. The broadleaves are just starting to assume their fall palette of glorious color. The aspens that haven't turned give a lacy light green background to the brilliant yellow so characteristic of that species but others are starting to lend their reds and golds to the background of forest greens and blues of distant mountain peaks...

The McCook Evangelical Free Church will sponsor the acclaimed Christian musical groups Selah and Avalon in concert on Saturday, Oct. 10 beginning at 7 p.m. at the McCook City Auditorium, West Fifth and C Street, to celebra