Opinion

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

I visited with a poll worker who told me that some voters are clueless.

According to this worker, some voters have no idea who is on the ballot and yet they still make a selection based on either a familiar-looking name or some other obscure reason for casting a vote.

SAINTS PERSPECTIVE, SCCC President Brad Bennett

The buildings at Seward County Community College echoed with unusual sounds last week: children’s laughter, feet racings down the carpeted hallways, and, Thursday afternoon, splashes and shrieks in the Wellness Center swimming pool. We hosted around 100 children at Kids College this week, and it gave our campus staff a much-needed jolt of happiness and energy as we near the end of a long, hot, summer.

For more than 20 years, the Business & Industry division at SCCC has offered children a chance to come to campus for fun and valuable classes for one action-packed week in the summer. Kids College is open to children entering first through eighth grades. Classes range from the everyday to the exotic: cooking basics, how to care for a lawnmower, how to swim on the one hand, or archery, intro to blacksmithing and more advanced art methods on the other.

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

John Schrank, Lynette Fromme, John Hinkley, Jr., and now Thomas Matthew Crooks.

These are the names of those who have attempted to assassinate a president or former president.

Schrank took a shot an Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, Lynette Fromme attempted to kill Gerald Ford in 1975, Hinkley put a bullet in Ronald Reagan in 1981, and Crooks nipped Donald Trump’s ear July 13, 2024.

GUEST COLUMN, Dick Morris

The announcement by the White House that President Biden is suffering from Covid, provides a timely and convenient exit strategy for the president.

In effect a presidency that was born in Covid, got elected through Covid is now about to exit gracefully through Covid.