Midwest Bank, headquartered in Pierce, Nebraska, is pleased to announce the opening of a Loan Production Office in Lincoln.  The office, located at 5700 Thompson Creek Blvd., Suite 3, will focus on consumer, commercial, agricultural & real estate loans.  Robert Panzer and Roger Johnson have been selected as the President and Sr. Vice President, respectively.

Larry Kopsa, CPA and partner in Kopsa Otte + Associates' 25-member firm located in York, Nebraska, was recently invited to meet with Governor Heineman for the signing of LB 888 into law. 

People that know me well know that shopping is just not my thing.  Back in the day, former News-Times reporter and columnist Donna Rhoades and I went at it head to head on who was the better shoppers, men or women.