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Small businesses: Protecting your personal assets with an LLC

GUEST COLUMN, Mabel Alarcon-Craven, Center for Rural Affairs

Many small businesses start as bootstrapped, one-person operations: just you, your idea, and a whole lot of hustle.

But as your business grows, so do your responsibilities and risks. You might begin taking on bigger projects, handling more income, or working with contractors and vendors. Once you reach this point, it may be time to consider formalizing your business.

Forming a limited liability company, or LLC, is one of the most popular ways to do it.

Fiscal responsibility at SCCC through the years

SAINTS PERSPECTIVE, SCCC President Brad Bennett

At Seward County Community College, our mission extends beyond education — it includes fiscal responsibility to the taxpayers who support our institution. As we prepare for the 2026 fiscal year, I want to share how SCCC is prioritizing community investment by maintaining a consistent mill levy that aligns closely with the 2025 rate.

Our Board of Trustees has chosen to set the 2026 operational mill levy at 34.991, just slightly above the 2025 rate of 34.720. This decision is guided by our ongoing commitment to long-term financial stewardship and transparency. While inflation, utility costs, and labor expenses rise, we are doing our part to hold the line on tax impacts.

OPINION – The Church: pursuing love

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

Since 2007 when I started writing for this newspaper, I can find only two articles that centered around 1 Corinthians 13, the "love chapter". One was near a Valentine's Day, and the other a few months later when the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill was observed. Both had to do with love between two individuals, but this week we'll explore the chapter and agape love in a little more detail.

The past weeks we've focused on the importance of unity in the Church. We saw Jesus' followers compared to a family, a body, and a spiritual house built of living stones. Paul warned in 1 Corinthians chapters 12 through 14 of a potential division, and he encouraged readers to avoid that by pursuing the "greater gifts" and "a more excellent way". Galatians 5:22-23 outlines the "fruits of the Spirit" which begin with love, and Jesus had already told His followers, "'A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another'" (John 13:34).

OPINION – The United States should not copy the world’s worst drug pricing policies

GUEST COLUMN, Rosa Mendoza & Dee Stewart, ALLvanza & Center for Innovation and Free Enterprise

President Trump just issued an executive order to rebalance the global pharmaceutical market — by tying U.S. drug prices to the artificially low, government-set prices in other developed nations.

There’s no question that the current market is imbalanced. American scientists develop two out of every three new medicines worldwide — yet Americans pay more per capita for brand-name drugs than the citizens of any other developed country. As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently summed it up, “America pays for drugs, and the rest of the world free rides.”

OPINION – Breaking the public school monopoly on education overdue

GUEST COLUMN, Star Parker

The Trump administration has been pursuing, on two fronts, the critical objective of fixing America’s broken education system.

One, an executive order by President Donald Trump, issued shortly after he assumed office, is to dismantle the Department of Education. Outright closing of the department is only possible by an act of Congress. However, the president is moving to accomplish the same objective administratively by closing down offices and major staff elimination. The Supreme Court recently upheld the president’s authority to do this.

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Small businesses: Protecting your personal assets with an LLC

GUEST COLUMN, Mabel Alarcon-Craven, Center for Rural Affairs

Fiscal responsibility at SCCC through the years

SAINTS PERSPECTIVE, SCCC President Brad Bennett

OPINION – The Church: pursuing love

MY PERSPECTIVE, Gary Damron

OPINION – The United States should not copy the world’s worst drug pricing policies

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OPINION – Breaking the public school monopoly on education overdue

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