Nebraska’s Nostalgia Trap

For all of today’s up-to-the-second economic analysis, how are Americans actually doing? The New York Times Op-Ed page asked writers to provide snapshots of their local economies over the course of the year. Here is Richard Dooling’s second dispatch on the state of the economy in Nebraska: Nebraska’s Nostalgia Trap. I’ll be doing two more […]

Revenge of the Cornhuskers

For all of today’s up-to-the-second economic analysis, how are Americans actually doing? The New York Times Op-Ed page asked writers to provide snapshots of their local economies over the course of the year. Richard Dooling’s first economic postcard from Omaha: Revenge of the Cornhuskers, published Sunday, 2 October 2005.