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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

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

Lincoln Arena: A Shell Game With Bailout Money

Originally published October 9, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. Leave a Comment

Lincoln Arena: A Shell Game With Bailout Money

Editor’s Note: Thanks to Don Raskey for this excellent, well researched article. Don worked hard with the No2Arena people to get the full facts in front of Lincoln voters. His continued efforts to follow up are much appreciated. By Donald Raskey The mayor and the Joint Public Agency (JPA) have been touting the future $50 […]

Filed Under: Bailouts, Budget, City of Lincoln, Featured, Government Spending, Like Drunken Sailors, Local, Stimulus Tagged With: american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009, arena, babs, babs bonds, bailout, bailout bill, bonds, building america bonds, chris beutler, City of Lincoln, debt, federal deficit, federal dollars, federal subsidies, fiscal federalism, joint public agency, jpa, lincoln ne, mayor, national debt, nebraska, new arena, no2arena, state sovereignty, tarp, Tenth Amendment

Lincoln Mayors Office Wants Your Input on the Budget? Sorta

Originally published May 14, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. Leave a Comment

Lincoln Mayors Office Wants Your Input on the Budget? Sorta

By Shelli Dawdy This is almost laughable. Almost. I find no small irony in the fact that the discussion about the City of Lincoln budget conveniently occurs after the primary election. It’s particularly convenient this year following the full court press to build a new arena (yes, pun intended). A budget discussion at this point […]

Filed Under: Action Alerts, Budget, City of Lincoln, Government Spending Tagged With: city of lincoln budget discussion, city of lincoln budget shorfall, city of lincoln budget shortfall, city of lincoln nebraska, fix broken lincoln government, Grassroots in Nebraska, lincoln budget survey, lincoln is broke, lincoln journal star lincoln budget stories, mayor beutler, mayor chris beutler, university of nebraska publicy policy center

HELL NO To Arena – It Is NOT Just a Lincoln Issue It Is a NEBRASKA Issue

Originally published May 7, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated May 6, 2012. Leave a Comment

HELL NO To Arena – It Is NOT Just a Lincoln Issue It Is a NEBRASKA Issue

By Shelli Dawdy I’m sure there are many Nebraskans who may not have even heard about the City of Lincoln arena issue and those who have understandably not focused on it because it is…well, its a City of Lincoln issue. And yes, it is, to the extent that the residents of Lincoln are the folks […]

Filed Under: Budget, City of Lincoln, Government Spending, In the News, Like Drunken Sailors Tagged With: City of Lincoln, city of lincoln arena facts, city of lincoln debt, deena winters lincoln journal star, lincoln area, lincoln arena controversry, lincoln haymarket, lincoln nebraska arena issue, lincoln nebraska budget problems, lincoln nebraska city government, nebraska taxpayers arena, no2arena, university of nebraska, university of nebraska busing students, unl problems

City of Lincoln Budget Process: The Mayor’s Approach is Flawed

Originally published May 28, 2009, By GiN Admin. Updated January 25, 2011. Leave a Comment

Notes: If you are a property owner in Lincoln, it’s important to take notice of the Mayor’s Budget and the “Taking Charge” project, which is stated as an effort to obtain residents’ input. It’s important to pay attention to the budgeting process overall and the Mayor’s project in particular as it appears higher property taxes […]

Filed Under: Budget, City of Lincoln, Lancaster County Tagged With: budget meeting, budget process, cents per resident, chris beutler, city, City of Lincoln, council, Government Spending, increase, mayor, mayor's office, nebraska, property, public survey, scientific, tax, Taxes, unscientific

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