Thanks to Don for the excellent presentation last Monday evening about Sustainable Development. We have only begun distributing the information we’ve discovered in our research on this subject. To see our previous articles, click here. We are currently developing an information page on this topic that will include resources and references. Again, much thanks goes […]
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Mayor Beutler: Crafty Politician, Walter Mitty, or Just Going Rogue?
By Shelli Dawdy As I noted yesterday, Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler held a press conference earlier this week wherein he announced a methane gas drilling project that was just beginning at the Bluffs Road facility. The City’s Public Works department had commenced drilling 60+ wells and installing a piping system to capture methane gas from […]
Time To Take the Bite Out of Beutler Before He Implements Cap & Trade in Lincoln
By Shelli Dawdy Just when I thought I could not possibly ever be surprised at what might come out of my television, I was reminded that my brain is simply not wired to conceive of the endless number of nonsensical ideas politicians will attempt to implement while we’re all looking the other way. I really […]
Under Those Sermon Subpoenas: “Disappeared” Ballot Initiatives
Subpoenas issued to a group of pastors ordering them to turn over sermons to the City of Houston made news headlines October 14. For several days, the only information I had was gleaned from a few passing references on TV and stories featured adjacent to other news I was reading. Some included a few lines […]
NE Dems’ Attack on Business, Whitehead OUT OF GAS
While it seems like fundamentally bad P.R. for a City’s controlling political party majority to turn on a siren that blares, “WE HATE BUSINESS”, desperate political times apparently call for desperate political measures. Read full articleNE Dems’ Attack on Business, Whitehead OUT OF GAS
Leirion Gaylor Baird’s Tax-Raising Petition Story Tough to Swallow
On April 15, 2013, Nebraska Watchdog published “Lincoln council candidate mistakenly signed petition to raise taxes”, reporting that Gaylor Baird signed a document calling on the City Council to raise the property tax levy by 5-cents in 2011. The candidate responded to Watchdog’s inquiry by explaining that when she’d been “asked to sign the petition […]
What Are We Voting On in the May 7 Lincoln General Election?
For those voters seeking to be better informed for the Tuesday, May 7, 2013, City of Lincoln General Election, a brief overview of what happened in the April 9 Primary and what will appear on the May 7 ballot: 13.35% of registered Lincoln voters cast ballots in the local Primary election April 9, “choosing” the […]
Q & A with Mark Whitehead Lincoln City Council Candidate
Updated Monday, May 6: The General Election is Tuesday, May 7. See our Elections page for a SAMPLE BALLOT and a complete list of current articles. Note that there is a new article about candidate Mark Whitehead, published Monday, May 6. Tuesday, April 9, was the Primary Election for several local government entities. Click HERE […]
Profiling Jon Bruning: An Unorthodox Analysis
Jon Bruning Last summer, we published articles about three of the five GOP primary candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Ben Nelson. Those three articles were informational in nature, not analytical. (We hope to update these with some analysis in short order, time permitting): Senator Deb Fischer Hat in Widening GOP […]
Citizens of Lincoln Are You Satisified? Mayor Survey
UPDATED: 7:34pm March 19, 2012 Fellow Lincolnites, Mayor Chris Beutler wants to hear from you in the annual “Taking Charge Citizen Satisfaction Survey“. Input will be taken through this Wednesday, March 21. I have just filled out the survey myself and would advise making use of the comment box at its conclusion. Long time readers […]
