In this fast-paced world where attention spans are shorter, and everyone seems endlessly busy, it can be difficult to ask people to gather information before rushing to judgment. However, this dilemma becomes more frustrating when an elected official tries to explain the complex rationale behind unpopular decisions. For example, the people of Sioux City are […]
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If you hang on to every receipt and piece of junk mail sent your way for fear you may need it later, consider this your wake-up call. It’s not necessary to keep all of your financial documents forever. In fact, clearing out the clutter created by stacks of paperwork will likely make you feel better
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Hello, my name is Elizabeth Alcala, Liz for short. I am a first-generation daughter of Mexican immigrants. I am the eldest of five children, so I was my parents’ first connection to the outside world. I started translating for them at the young age of seven, but I also had to find resources and ways
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The mustard seed that initiated this organization was planted in Monique Scarlett’s heart after the world witnessed the slaying of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012. Monique sat at home, watching the news with the rest of the world, wondering how to keep this from happening in her community. “I sat crying in my
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The life of a law enforcement officer is one of service. It’s complicated, challenging, and even self-sacrificing. We will never fully understand what it would be like to stand in their shoes. Not even their spouses can fully comprehend their lived experiences and complex emotions. But in talking with Sandra Mueller and Jennifer Braunschweig, two
I am a sucker for motivational artwork. For more than a decade in my office at work, I had a silhouette of a Husker football player with the heading DETERMINATION. Below it read something like “Out-hustle others who don’t have your work ethic,” or perhaps it read, “We used to be really good for three