In the wake of last week's Riverside-Brookfield High School Board of Education meeting, where officials rolled out their plan for students to return for part-time, in-person learning beginning with the second quarter, there were many people who questioned the board's data justifying the decision and complained that the plan lacked specificity.

During an unfolding pandemic, we've now learned, it never hurts to have the director of a hospital lab sitting on your local school board.

Shortly before classes were scheduled to begin in person in Riverside School District 96, two representatives from the teachers' union addressed the school board's decision to conduct in-person learning.

We'll never understand guys like Jeffrey Tobolski. Here's a guy who seemingly has it made. He inherited his job of McCook mayor – passed down to him from his father – earned salary and benefits approaching six figures (and more for serving as liquor commissioner) as mayor of a town of about 225 people.