High property taxes are easy to describe, harder to solve

That time of year is nearing – the time when you have to pay the second half of your property taxes, due by the end of July.

It's a big check, and I write two of them, one for my house and one for the small farm that's still in the family.

No one likes to write these checks, and we don't need a state hotline – as launched by Gov. Pillen recently – to tell us that.

I'll save the state some money and the governor some time by stating the obvious – just about everyone thinks property taxes are too high in Nebraska.

Some think "way, way too high" and others think "maybe just a tad too high." But e...