Selling Nebraska to current, potential Nebraskans

As is its wont to do, U.S. News and World Report recently released its Best States "rankings," a list on which Nebraska placed third, up one spot from 2023. Only Utah and New Hampshire bested our fair environs in the best states standings.

So, yes, go ahead. Yay, us!

The magazine's methodology included rankings in eight primary categories: fiscal stability, opportunity, infrastructure, crime and corrections, economy, education, health care and natural environment. Each of those were subdivided for a total of 20 lenses through which a state's score was calculated. Researchers crunched data from...