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FILE - In this March 28, 2017 file photo, a dump truck hauls coal at Contura Energy's Eagle Butte Mine near Gillette, Wyo. After the first round of major Powder River Basin coal layoffs and bankruptcies in 2015 and 2016, the buzzworthy response was Wyoming and Campbell County would have to adjust to a &quot;new normal&quot; for the commodity. The times of posting nearly 450 million-ton annual PRB production are long gone, and after a 2019 that was disastrous on many levels for U.S. and Wyoming coal, what's more clear now than ever is that &quot;new normal&quot; isn't a lower baseline for thermal coal, it's an accelerating decline. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)

After disastrous year, no ‘new normal’ for Powder River coal

By GREG JOHNSON - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY OCT. 2 AND THEREAFTER - In an Oct. 29, 2014 photo, work crews sort through oysters at Jeri's Seafood in Anahuac, Texas. The news in 2014 Jeri's owner Ben Nelson and his son-in-law, Chambers County Justice of the Peace Tracy Woody, had leased 23,000 acres of bay bottom that included some of the choicest oyster reefs severed long friendships among the three largest oyster operations in Galveston Bay and spawned lawsuits that have brought uncertainty to an industry decimated by years of bad weather and predators.(J. Patric Schneider/ Houston Chronicle via AP)

Bitter feud rages over control of Galveston Bay’s oysters

By HARVEY RICE - Associated Press

Bussman, Holte head ND Class B all-state boys team

By GREG DEVILLERS - Associated Press

** FILE ** Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer shows her gratitude to supporters Tuesday night, Nov. 6, 2012, in Lincoln, Neb. Mrs. Fischer’s win in the deep red state returns the U.S. Senate seat to the Republican column following the retirement of Democrat Ben Nelson. (Associated Press)

Fischer returns Nebraska Senate seat to GOP fold

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Maryland Democrat, speaks March 8, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

Republicans filibuster equal-pay bill

By Stephen Dinan and Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

**FILE** Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey. (Associated Press)

Ex-Sen. Kerrey to run for his former Nebraska seat

By Margery A. Beck - Associated Press

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska reportedly is rethinking his decision not to run for the seat Sen. Ben Nelson is vacating. He has not been on a ballot in his state since 1994. (Associated Press)

Reports of Kerrey run for Senate heat up

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

**FILE** Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey. (Associated Press)

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey not running again for Neb. seat

By Margery A. Beck - Associated Press

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By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey, Nebraska Democrat, who stepped down from the Senate after two terms in 2001, is considering making a comeback bid. (Associated Press)

Nebraska Democrats pin hopes on Kerrey

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Illustration: The corn crutches by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

WOLF: Cronyism doesn’t sell in corn country

By Dr. Milton R. Wolf

** FILE ** Then-Sen. Ben Nelson announces in 2011 that he will not seek a third term in Congress. (Associated Press)

Sen. Ben Nelson won’t run for re-election

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Nelson faces ‘a real test’ in 2012 campaign

By Henry C. Jackson and Grant Schulte - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent, accompanied by his wife, Hadassah, addresses a gathering Wednesday in Stamford, Conn. He has announced that he will not seek a fifth term in 2012. (Associated Press)

Lieberman’s exit sparks Senate conjecture

By Joseph Weber - The Washington Times

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Democrats mull taxes for higher earners

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Nelson ensures 60 votes for bank regulation bill

By Jim Kuhnhenn - Associated Press

Health bill faces constitutional challenge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Dems hope to speed Obama’s stimulus

By S.A. Miller and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times