The Colwell Block, 62 S. Last Chance Gulch, initially was known as Uncle Sam’s Block. The three-story brick building with a French Renaissance-style mansard roof was built in 1888 for ...

In this file photo from 2021, Brooke Pfeiffer hands shaved ice cones to customers during Uncle Sam Jam, the city of Lincoln's annual Fourth of July weekend celebration at Oak Lake Park.

Since 1961, the U.S. Treasury Department has accepted these “gifts” — though by law, they can’t be used to pay down the total debt. They can only reduce how much the government needs to borrow during ...

People willing to sacrifice their hard-earned money for national debt relief are vanishing — and who can blame them with our $37 trillion debt? There was a bright spot last month: The federal ...