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Healthy individuals are needed every day to maintain an adequate blood supply for patients in need. Once a donor has made the commitment to give blood, it is important to take a few simple steps to prepare and help ensure a good donation experience.

Valentine, NE – The newest “branch” of Sandhills State Bank is set to open at Valentine Elementary School on October 26, 2023. The Badger Branch of Sandhills State Bank will be open weekly to collect students’ deposits and start the habit of saving at a young age.

America was brought to the brink of a government shutdown. This happened, in part, because President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer squeezed the calendar.

Perspectives Aristotle is said to have referred to the female as a mutilated male, and this philosophy seems to have carried forward into much more modern times. In 1977, official FDA guidelines recommended that women of “childbearing potential” be excluded from early stage clinical trials.

The five remaining committee members of Old West Days put another outstanding event in the books. It was bitter sweet to hear all the stories of how performers and spectators came to be a part of Old West Days over the years.

Lincoln-Nebraska Farm Bureau (NEFB) is urging farmers and ranchers to join the organization in submitting comments on the EnvironmentalProtectionAgency’s (EPA) proposed new rule that heavily increases limitations and regulations on pesticides. Earlier this year, the EPA released the “Draft Herbicide Strategy Framework” in response to extensive litigation about the agency’s noncompliance with the Endangered Species Act (ESA). NEFB says the more than 90-page proposal outlines a new method of pesticide labeling, adding highly burdensome restrictions to herbicide use in many areas.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement after President Biden delivered remarks at the White House regarding Hamas’s attack against Israel: “As President Biden said, the atrocities carried out by the Iranbacked terrorist group Hamas are ‘sheer evil.’

Lincoln - Governor Jim Pillen issued the following statement in response to an update provided by Secretary of State Bob Evnen that signatures collected for a repeal of LB753 (Opportunity Scholarship Act) had met the necessary threshold for placing the issue on the ballot in November 2024.

Jackson L. Hansen, Broken Bow.

Washington D.C. – U.S.