EditorialJim Pillen, a University of Nebraska regent and Republican gubernatorial candidate who is backed by the state?s powerful Ricketts family political machine, addresses the Nebraska Bankers Association convention in La Vista, Neb., May 5, 2022. (Walker Pickering/The New York Times)
EditorialAidan Ricketts, who rescued more than a dozen residents stranded by flooding with his boat, in Lismore, in the Australian state of New South Wales, March 13, 2022. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialAidan Ricketts, who rescued more than a dozen residents stranded by flooding with his boat, in Lismore, in the Australian state of New South Wales, March 13, 2022. (Matthew Abbott/The New York Times)
EditorialIvan Lesica, left, the maitre d’ and Sean Ricketts, work to put up the famous caricatures that surround the dining room of Sardi’s, in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 2021. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialIvannah-Mercedes, left, and Erin Brown at a basketball court used in a scene from the film “Concrete Cowboy,” in Philadelphia, April 9, 2021. (Aaron Ricketts/The New York Times)
EditorialIvannah-Mercedes, left, and Erin Brown at a basketball court used in a scene from the film “Concrete Cowboy,” in Philadelphia, April 9, 2021. (Aaron Ricketts/The New York Times)
EditorialPaul Sullivan: With a loss of revenue and cuts to employees’ pay, trying to predict the Chicago Cubs' future -- financial and otherwise -- is a guessing gam