Opinion

Christmas reflections

Merry Christmas, District 1! The holidays are a wonderful time to celebrate with family and friends, exchange gifts, and eat Christmas treats. For those in the military, fi�rst responders, or essential workers who are unable to be with family and friends during this season, thank you for your service. Almost every community in District 1 hosts holiday events throughout the month of December from Christmas pageants to soup suppers, and I’d encourage you to join me in exploring the wide range of off�erings throughout our region.

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The case against court packing

Earlier this month, eight months after President Biden created a group to study “Supreme Court reform,” the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States fi�nally released its report. The far left has been waiting eagerly for this moment for months.

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The cost of Christmas

Does anyone else fi�nd it fun to read what the gifts in the carol, “Twelve Days of Christmas,” cost each year? I think this was something my fi�rst babysitter and I used to do years ago- ...well after she stopped watching me, that is. We would write letters to each other weekly, and most holiday seasons we would discuss how much turtle doves or leaping lords or whatever verse was our favorite at the moment cost compared to the year before.

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What a week

What a week. I’ve heard about “going off� of the grid.” I thought it was something you could choose to do.

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Davis’ Dispatches with Julie Davis

The USS Oklahoma project Ninety-two point three percent. That’s a pretty good average, right? That’s the percentage of sailors and marines who were able to be identifi�ed in a recently completed program from the Department of Defense aimed at putting names together with remains recovered from the USS Oklahoma during World War II.

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Home safety for seniors

The new Senior Topics: Know It Before You Need It series at the Morton-James Public Library closed out 2021 with a program on in-home safety and how it relates to seniors. Physical therapist Susan Benton of Nebraska City Physical Therapy led a room-by-room discussion of household hazards and things people can do to make their homes safer and make it possible for them to live at home longer.

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