By Shelli Dawdy GiN is frequently at odds with the Lincoln Journal Star’s editorial board, but for once we agree. Nebraska’s municipalities, counties, and the State simply cannot afford the status quo regarding how public employees’ salaries and benefits are determined. In an editorial published December 16, Lincoln Journal Star cited the recent raises granted [...]
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that the 17th Amendment‘s passage in 1913 in conjunction with other changes, tipped the scale of power too heavily in the direction of Federal government. States lost much of their influence on Congress, since prior to that, Legislatures elected representatives to the United States Senate. The people were both represented [...]
By Shelli Dawdy This is a continuation from yesterday’s article about the Tax Cut Compromise. If Democrats’ want to play class warfare, perhaps the debate should include such vivid examples of where this kind of rhetoric can ultimately lead if it is allowed to stand unchallenged. In Soviet Russia, upper-middle class peasants known as kulaks [...]
By Shelli Dawdy Webster’s online dictionary provides some example phrases for some words. I find one of the examples for the word compromise, fascinating 1: “To avoid an argument, always be ready to seek compromise.” There’s no question we’ve heard a lot about bipartisanship and compromise. I’m not naive, compromise is of course, a necessary [...]
“At its core, this dispute is not simply about regulating the business of insurance—or crafting a scheme of universal health insurance coverage—it’s about an individual’s right to choose to participate.” A federal judge in the Eastern Virginia District Court released a summary judgment Monday declaring the individual mandate portion of the health care law passed [...]
By Shelli Dawdy On December 9th, we published an article about the “Symposium on Maternal Child Health in Nebraska” convened by the National Association of Social Workers and United Nations Foundation in Omaha on September 30, 2010. As I reported, friends from Omaha arranged for a person to attend the event for the purpose of [...]
Please note that the new TSA screening procedures are of an offensive nature, so humor generated about the whole subject naturally tends to be…a bit racy. We recommend viewer discretion. For a few serious articles on the topic, check out the following… Think Concerns Over New TSA Airport Security Overblown? Alternative to Virtual Strip Searches [...]
By Shelli Dawdy As the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, the federal government ended November as the 26th month in a row spending more money that it had taken in (by $150.4 billion) and the most recent projections available mean Fiscal Year 2011 could reach a new record $1.5 trillion deficit, topping the 2009 [...]
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared on 60 Minutes this week, apparently to soothe Americans’ concerns. This of course, is a necessary PR effort at this point. Wonder if that PR firm the Fed hired in 2009 advised Bernanke to make the appearance? Perhaps, although these efforts don’t appear to be working all that well. [...]
By Shelli Dawdy To view more of documents from the event – CLICK HERE We have published several articles about a bill that came up at the Nebraska Unicameral last legislative session that we have often called “the bill that just won’t die”. LB1110 was introduced by Lincoln Senator Kathy Campbell under a suspension of [...]