Senator Campbell: DON’T GO AWAY MAD. JUST GO AWAY.

The article about Medicaid coverage for prenatal care in Nebraska that was published in the Sunday, July 24th, Lincoln Journal Star is so full of bias, unsupported conclusions, and half-baked analysis it’s difficult to know where to begin to respond.  I’m going to take a stab at it anyway over the next few days.  But [...]

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DOA or Resurrecting the Dead? Nordquist One World & LB 1110

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 [...]

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Nebraska Deem & Pass? LB 1110 Proved Shenanigans Not Limited to D.C.

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 [...]

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