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Many Questions About Chris Beutler Decision to Join ICLEI No.1: Is it Legal?

Originally published January 17, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated April 1, 2013. 3 Comments

Many Questions About Chris Beutler Decision to Join ICLEI No.1: Is it Legal?

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 […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Local, Sustainable Development Tagged With: agenda 21, beutler announcement iclei, beutler cleaner greener lincoln, beutler environmentalism, chris beutler, City of Lincoln, city of lincoln budget, city of lincoln issues, federal sovereignty, foreign influences in nebraska, iclei, lincoln joins iclei, media bias, personal freedoms, poor media coverage, state sovereignty, Sustainable Development, united nations

Mayor Beutler: Crafty Politician, Walter Mitty, or Just Going Rogue?

Originally published November 12, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated November 12, 2010. 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Local Tagged With: bluffs road lanfill, cap & tax, cap & trade, cap and tax, cap and trade, carbon caps, carbon credit exchange, carbon credits, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, chicago climate exchange, chris beutler, city council, city council meeting, city forestor, City of Lincoln, city regulations, co2 emissions, co2 pollutant, collapse carbon credit exchange, electricity, environmental protection agency, epa, epa declaration carbon, going rogue, lincoln nebraska, lincoln public works director, mayor chris beutler, mayor's office, methane gas capture, politicians, public works, secret life of walter mitty, stimulus funds, Sustainable Development

Time To Take the Bite Out of Beutler Before He Implements Cap & Trade in Lincoln

Originally published November 11, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated November 11, 2010. 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Local Tagged With: bluffs road landfill, cap & tax, cap & trade, capping carbon, carbon credit exchange, carbon emission, channel 8 lincoln, chris beutler, city council, City of Lincoln, cleaner greener lincoln, electricity, environment, environmental protection agency, environmentalism, epa, excess carbon credits, global climate change, klkn tv, lincoln building codes, lincoln mayor, lincoln public works, local news, mayor chris beutler, mayor press conference, mayor's press conference, methane drills infrastructure, methane gas recaptures, methane gas wells, public works, stimulus dollars, stimulus funds, Sustainable Development, sustainable future at work, un agenda 21, united nations, university of nebraska

Under Those Sermon Subpoenas: “Disappeared” Ballot Initiatives

Originally published October 28, 2014, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Local Tagged With: annise parker, ballot initiative, ballot measures, city council, equal rights ordinance, f, fairness ordinance, government corruption, homosexual and gender identity ordinance, houston, mayor, nebraska, pastors, petition drive, petition referendum, subpoenas, texas

NE Dems’ Attack on Business, Whitehead OUT OF GAS

Originally published May 6, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: 2013 Elections, City of Lincoln, Elections, Featured, Private Enterprise Tagged With: business, city of lincoln elections, eugene carroll, gas gouging, gas prices, klkn tv, lincoln election 2013, lincoln nebraska gas prices, local elections, mark whitehead, may 7 election, mayor chris beutler, nebraska democratic party, republican candidates, vince powers, whitehead oil

Leirion Gaylor Baird’s Tax-Raising Petition Story Tough to Swallow

Originally published May 6, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: 2013 Elections, Budget, City of Lincoln, Elections Tagged With: 2013, budget, channel 10/11, city council candidates, City of Lincoln, leirion gaylor, leirion gaylor baird, local elections, lplan2040, may 7 election, mayor, mayor's environmental task force, nancy hicks, nebraska watchdog, petition to raise taxes, property taxes, rosina paolini, san francisco mayor, tax increases, Taxes

What Are We Voting On in the May 7 Lincoln General Election?

Originally published May 3, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: 2013 Elections, City of Lincoln, Elections, Featured Tagged With: 2013, airport authority, ballot questions, city charter amendments, city council candidates, city genera election, city of lincoln nebraska, lancaster county elections, lancaster county sample ballots, lincoln nebraska, lps school board, may 7 election, proposed ballot questions, sample ballot, school board candidates, school board election

Q & A with Mark Whitehead Lincoln City Council Candidate

Originally published April 9, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Elections, Featured Tagged With: 2013, candidates, city council candidates, city of lincoln election, gop candidates, lincoln city council candidate, lincoln election 2013, local elections, mark whithead

Profiling Jon Bruning: An Unorthodox Analysis

Originally published May 11, 2012, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Citizens of Lincoln Are You Satisified? Mayor Survey

Originally published March 19, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Action Alerts, Budget, City of Lincoln, Featured, Local, Smoking Section, Taking Action, Taxes Tagged With: 2012 mayor survey, annual survey, chris beutler, citizen input, citizen participation, city government, city government spending, City of Lincoln, city of lincoln budget, city of lincoln budget process: the mayor's approach is flawed, city of lincoln mayor, city of lincoln parks and recreation department, government spending, lincoln budget, lincoln city government, local government, local spending, muncipal budget, occupy lincoln, online citizen survey, Taking Charge 2012: Lincoln Satisfaction Survey, taking charge citizen satisfaction survey, university of nebraska public policy center, unl public policy center

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