If population has a direct correlation to our sustainable environment - an argument I bought in 1968 - everything short of population control is a band-aid and will only extend the timeline for the ultimate conclusion - over-population will venetually consume all of our resources. If population has a direct correlation to our sustainable environment - an argument I bought in 1968 - everything short of population control is a band-aid and will only extend the timeline for the ultimate...

Many of the students are friends, and Pope John kids go to the public school for agriculture and industrial technology classes. When Omaha and Lincoln each have more than one high school playing in Nebraska football championship games in the same year, it's really no big deal. The 54-year-old Schmitt is a construction contractor who played quarterback for Pope John and graduated in the school's first class in 1972. The squads got a big send-off Tuesday night at a pep rally held at the...

We ate all day: fresh chicken, necks wrung only hours before; real potatoes and gravy; yeast rolls; corn and green beans; red Jell-O with bananas; and best of all, fresh baked pies with thick cream from the separator. In this day and age, it's hard to realize there was a time when there was no TV, no football games to watch, no cell phones to answer, and we actually talked to each other. Sometimes we tried to listen to the radio through the static, but mostly we sat around the table,...

Is there no current candidate willing to do the same on immigration? You'd think someone in the 2008 field would make the move, just for strategic reasons. But it can be harder for a woman -- especially a potential commander in chief -- to project toughness without being seen as harsh and shrill. He also added that even after semi-amnesty there would be immigrants "not making any effort to become an American citizen," and said he "would not give them a drivers license. Yet at a moment when...

Last week, I compiled my annual list of new and traditional holiday movies and specials for the next month (it's being published in this Friday's paper) After you eat your Thanksgiving turkey with all the fixings this Thursday, try and stomach another bellyful of all the holiday feel-good, it's-a-miracle television programming that will follow. Unfortunately, it's the usual stuff we get spoon-fed every year with Rob Lowe or (insert other TV actor's name here) finding out that, yes, it...

And it takes a great deal of effort to maintain such a consistent picking pattern so as to maintain my strangle hold on this, much maligned but still notable, position. It is difficult at times to politely ignore and refuse the advice of the multitude of good-hearted samaritans who offer unsolicited picking advice. Perhaps in admiration of my steady approach, but more likely to provide some comedic relief from his weekly witty but first-place driven approach, the picks panel administrator...