Ed Howard - Nebraska StatePaper.com

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We are all ignorant, just about different things.

About Me

I went to work for my hometown newspaper in Springfiled, OH in 1966 when I was an 18 year old high school senior. I blame it on H. L. Mencken's essays and a Humphrey Bogart movie "The Harder They Fall."

I like to say that while attending several universities, "I never let college get in the way of my education."

My view of the world situation: "Were it not for man's inherent tendency for gratuitous unkindness, we might stand a chance."

On reporting, I say "The purpose of good reporting is to reflect what society is doing in a way that is useful and constructive. That often reflects the adage that newspapers should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."

My Family

Fine people in spirit of their association with a balding, stubble-bearded, pot-bellied, allegedly ill-tempered keyboard jockey.

My Pets

Fred the pacifist shar pei is the most dependable of critters on two legs or four that I've known. My love of the equine species stems partly from forty years of covering politics. They don't give you any more horse poop than is truly necessary and there is no ulterior motive in it.