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1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Bob Speirs

   Time to get the lead out (opens the original)

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   OPINION — I’ve been gathering my kit. Rangefinders and binoculars, knives and sharpeners, first aid kits and ponchos. I have never harvested an elk when a second or third sharp knife hasn’t come in handy. I sit outside near my “hunting blind” that I’ve cleverly convinced my wife is a home. I spend my time scanning the timber and valleys for elk, deer, and antelope. There are so few in comparison to years ago, and so many more people hunting them. Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene

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2. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Bob Speirs

   Smells like silver lining (opens the original)

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   OPINION — Each little rain cloud is so appreciated. Even when they leave behind a bit of smoke, as long as we can get ahead of each flareup and keep things small. Many of the pastures which burned in northern Nebraska now look like golf courses after heavy rains. But it will still take a few seasons to get them back into health. Each morning after lightning-filled skies, there is the smell of smoke. Some travels all the way from Canada, but of late there is the occasional sharp tang in the ai

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3. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Bob Speirs

   Paper papa (opens the original)

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   OPINION — Fifty years ago, I was a paper boy. A few decades later, I find myself a paper grandpa. I was not a paperboy in the traditional sense of bicycle-peddling distributor, but rather as a collector. I loved everything with a painted cover and gathered paperbacks and magazines at garage sales and book swaps. For a brief time, I attempted to own every Doc Savage novel in print. I came up short as there were 181 titles that were published between 1933-1949. If I ever retire, I plan to colle

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