Opinion

Every July, I celebrate another trip around the sun and then watch MLB players hit baseballs towards the moon.This year’s no different.My birthday happens this week and, on Monday, July 15, the Major Leaguers will be in action for the derby live from Globe Life Field, home of the 2023 World Series Champion Texas Rangers.On Tuesday, July 16, the players from the National League and American League will do battle in their annual exhibition.As a Atlanta Braves fan, I am happy to see that the team will have solid representation in that contest.The MLB All Star game is fun.

A bit of cottonwood fluff blew in my face this morning.

As husband and wife urologists, we talk a lot about the urinary tract and how it affects our patients.In women, the most common urinary concern is incontinence, or the involuntary leakage of urine.

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With the NBA, NHL and College World Series, both baseball and softball, now in the rearview, the sports world is slowing down a bit and headed toward the Major League Baseball All Star break in under two weeks.With the all-star break comes a sports dead period, travel days for the MLB guys, where the major American sports schedule pauses for a moment.The break this year falls on Wednesday, July 17, and Thursday, July 18.MLB gets back to its action on July 19 and, before you know it, the pennant race will be in full swing with college sports, including football coming up, plus the NFL and, eventually, the World Series.In the spirit of that break from sports, I wanted to turn this column away from reaction to the sports world and into a mode of gratitude for all the folks who help make my job possible as the sports guy for the Nebraska City News-Press, Hamburg Reporter and Syracuse Journal-Democrat.It seems like a long time ago that I came to Nebraska City to cover sports for its local newspaper.And a lot has changed in that time.

As Independence Day approaches, it is a time for our communities to come together and celebrate the birth of our great nation.

Christmas Wishes Paying It Forward is going to have Christmas in July for local cancer patients, and it will involve donating gift bags through the CHI Health St Mary’s infusion department.This year, Christmas in July will focus on cancer patients and activities bags for children.

With the 248th birthday of our nation straight ahead, I’m delving into the family history archives a bit to share some stories of my little (5-foot-tall) paternal grandmother, Marie Achenbach Raczkowski, who just happened to share her birthday with our country.G-mom R, as my sister and I refer to her in our texting shorthand, left her tiny Polish village near the Lithuanian border in 1908 when she was 18.

Losing is tough.

I think I left you in our new/old restaurant in Murdock, last week, didn’t I?Hallie and I were really looking forward to having Saturday lunch there when we returned from getting our weekly beautification treatment at Lani’s Hairport in Weeping Water.