Readers are referred to a Local View column published today, April 13, 2012, in the Lincoln Journal-Star that was co-written by Shelli and me. In the article, we argue that Governor Heineman should use the opportunity presented by his veto of LB599 to draw a line against the Unicameral’s profligate spending. I recommend that readers… more
Last evening we published the letter we sent to 48 of Nebraska’s Senators about LB599. We also wanted to share a letter from one of our readers who contacted his own Senator, Colby Coash (District 27), who voted for LB599 in the first two rounds. Even IF you read this article after the third round… more
GiN's letter to all NE Senators regarding LB599 - the effort to expand Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants and others deemed ineligible by the Federal government. more
As of Friday, nine people know the outcome of the states’ lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Congress’ inaptly named “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” a/k/a Obamacare. The Justices voted at a closed-door conference, but we won’t know what they concluded until June. They and their clerks will spend the time between now and June… more
UPDATES noted in red: Last update, Sunday, April 1 @2:46pm The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on health care “reform” cases in three sessions on three days this week, beginning today, Monday, March 26. The Supreme Court’s ruling on the case, widely expected in June of this year, is of obvious historic importance,… more
A lot of people are talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement and we did publish an article about the OccupyLincoln movement this weekend. One of the central themes one can detect within this movement regards “corporate greed”, and it started with a specific criticism of the corporate greed on Wall Street and its influences… more
Several articles we've published recently reported on a meeting of Nebraska Senators representing districts in Lancaster that occurred on November 17 in Lincoln. One of those articles, NE Senators Meeting 11/17 Part 2: Voices Not Often Heard, focused on remarks Linda and I made addressing core questions regarding the true purpose of government and whether or not the $900 million+ - $1.4 billion budget shortfall is being taken seriously enough. Linda focused in particular on the serious problems with Nebraska's Medicaid system. Following the meeting, Linda sent a letter to the Senators who attended to reinforce several of the points she'd made, which we are sharing, below. Linda did some additional research following writing her letter, which lays out even more problems coming with Medicaid, which you can read about HERE.
Nebraska Senators representing Lancaster County convened a public meeting on Wednesday, November 17, at the Lincoln Public School District building at 59th & O St. The first half of the meeting, allocated to the subject of problems with Nebraska’s child welfare system were reviewed in an article located HERE, an accounting of comments by myself [...]
Six months ago we labeled LB 1110 “the bill that just won’t die”. This “dead” piece of legislation, the people connected to it, and entities who are pushing for it, just keep creeping up every time we turn around (pun not intended…but it works). The “zombies” here simply cannot be ignored because resurrection efforts have [...]
Posted by Shellinda: As a couple of Americans who have spent too much time focused on Washington, D.C. and not enough within our state (but making an effort to change this), we wonder whether the maneuvers regarding a certain piece of legislation introduced last session is common practice in the Nebraska Unicameral. We suspect it [...]