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MCC’S ANNUAL INTER-HIGH DAY COMPETITION McCook Community College is hosting more than 400 of the area’s best and brightest high school students Wednesday. These students will compete for more than $20,000 in scholarships at MCC’s annual

Inter-High day competition. MCC is expecting 500 testers from 17 area high schools in 28 testing categories. All top three placers are awarded a 3-for free summer course. Five hundred dollar scholarships will be awarded to all first-place winners. Plaques for three division-sizes of schools will be awarded to the top three schools. Schools are set to check in at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center from 8-

8:20 a.m. The official welcome and announcements will be from 8:20-8:35 a.m. The first testing and demonstration session is from 8:45-10 a.m., the second session is from 10:10-11:25. In addition to taking morning academic tests, several MCC departments utilize this time with high school students to conduct demonstrations informational sessions

about MCC’s academic programs. The awards ceremony takes place from 12:20-1 p.m. at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. MCC faculty members will present award medals from each subject at the awards ceremony.

FULL COURT PRESS TO PASS TAX CUT PROPOSAL Gov. Pete Ricketts is putting on a full-court press to pass his tax cut proposal during the final days of this legislative session. Ricketts is pressing legislators to pass his newly revised tax cut plan. “LB 947, the

Nebraska Property Tax Cuts and Opportunity Act, is the vehicle that we can achieve tax relief this year,” Ricketts tells reporters during a news conference in his Capitol hearing room. The tax plan has under-gone a vast change during this legislative session. Gone is the pro-posal to convert the Property Tax Relief Fund into refundable income

tax credits. Instead, it is being retained at $224 million. Refundable income tax credits for property taxes paid would be added incremen-tally. Agricultural producers would receive a 2% refundable credit, increasing by 2% a year until it reaches 20% by 2027. Residential property owners would also receive a 20% credit, eventually. It would grow a bit more slowly until being fully implemented by 2030. LB 947

would phase in a cut in the corporate income tax to 6.84%, the same as the top individual income tax rate.

IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Officials with the Nebraska Farm Bureau are rolling out a report that details the critical importance of international trade to the long-term health of the state’s agricultural industry. Jay Rempe, the Farm Bu-reau’s senior economist, says the report details the top three commod-ity exports. “The first three — soybeans corn and beef — were all

over a billion dollars and distiller’s grain is at about $300-million,” Rempe says. “Our exports in 2016 are three times the value that they were in the year 2000, so that’s a figure that has been growing.” Jor-dan Dux, the bureau’s national affairs coordinator, says the report came at the request of the state’s farmers and ranchers who are con-

cerned about a possible trade war. He says those concerns surfaced after the Trump administration began pushing for tariffs on steel and aluminum and threatened withdrawal from existing agreements. Dux fears Nebraska’s major trade partners might retaliate.

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McCook Humane Society

100 South Street, 345-2372

Hours: M-F: 2-5, Sat: 12-4

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SPORTS The McCook Lady Bison Tennis team returns to the court to-day, traveling to Hastings for duals vs. Adams Central and Hastings High. The MHS girls are 2-0 in duals after wins last week over Hershey and North Platte. Thursday's North Platte Invite has been moved to Wednesday because of expected cold/rainy conditions. The LeRoy Hoehner Track and Field Invite in McCook scheduled for Thursday has been moved to tomorrow. Field events will start at noon with running events at 1 p.m. The McCook Community College Baseball team will host Western Nebraska at the Jaycee Sports Com-plex. First pitch is at 1 p.m.

Erik Chinander is careful to not make too many judgments on players from last season’s Nebraska defense. Consider that Chinander, the Huskers’ new defensive coordinator, has watched film of only two games from last season. Ne-braska’s game against Wisconsin was one. He’s not even certain of the other. Chinander only watched that much be-cause he wanted a general idea of the personnel returning. That’s all. He wasn’t about to condemn a player or make rash judgments based on those games. “There are things on tape I see and think, ‘Why would that kid do that?’ but I don’t know what he was coached to do,” Chinander said, “so it’s not fair for me to get a bad taste in my mouth about that kid from the film.” Chinander knew of other ways to find out what went wrong, and why, last season, as a new Nebraska coaching staff dives into spring football. Players and coaches reconvene Tuesday morning after a week-long spring break.

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