'Hall of Hot Winds' gasses up for election season

Rumors are as common around the State Capitol as brome grass in a roadside ditch.

It's not called "The Hall of Hot Winds" for nothing,

And that rumor mill gets cranked up big time during election season, when there's speculation aplenty about who is running and who is not, and who can win and who cannot.

By the time you've read this, you've probably already voted in the May 12 primary.

The rumor mill had Falls City businessman Charles Herbster as a likely primary challenger to incumbent Jim Pillen, who had edged Herbster in the GOP primary four years ago.

But Herbster opted out, likely because...