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Does Democracy Balance the Income and Influence Equation?

Originally published December 10, 2011, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. 5 Comments

Does Democracy Balance the Income and Influence Equation?

Members of the Occupy Lincoln group noticed our recent article, “

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Government vs Capitalism OR Crony Capitalism? What Can We Do About Greed?

Originally published October 23, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 10 Comments

Government vs Capitalism OR Crony Capitalism? What Can We Do About Greed?

A lot of people are talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement and we did publish an article about the OccupyLincoln movement this weekend. One of the central themes one can detect within this movement regards “corporate greed”, and it started with a specific criticism of the corporate greed on Wall Street and its influences […]

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Financial Collapse: Can It Happen Here? If So, Then What?

Originally published December 4, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated December 4, 2010. Leave a Comment

Financial Collapse: Can It Happen Here? If So, Then What?

There is an unfortunate tendency within human beings to deny the truth if it is too difficult to process. Politically this phenomenon is seen most frequently when people make the acknowledgment that it would be better to sweep incumbents out of office and start over with some “real people”. When it comes time to vote, […]

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Jeremy Nordquist Confused About What Sustainable Means

Originally published October 14, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 22, 2011. Leave a Comment

Jeremy Nordquist Confused About What Sustainable Means

This article is part of a continuing series about Nebraska Senator Jeremy Nordquist (7). There are several important reasons why we are allocating so much time to this topic. We ask that regular readers of the GiN site visit daily at least through this weekend and share this information with whomever they believe would be […]

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Step Away From The Hammer Mr. President

Originally published September 12, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 12, 2010. Leave a Comment

Step Away From The Hammer Mr. President

Thanks to the folks at 912 Omaha for sharing these two gems with everyone, thought we’d pass along: The songwriter’s website is here.

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Did That Sovereignty Resolution Mean Anything?

Originally published September 8, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 23, 2011. Leave a Comment

Did That Sovereignty Resolution Mean Anything?

By Shelli Dawdy On March 29, 2010, I published an article here about the effort taken by GiN and so many Nebraskans to get the Sovereignty Resolution passed through the Nebraska Unicameral. Since then, I’ve been wondering…will that effort go to waste? Sovereignty…what does it really mean? On April 13, 2010, the Nebraska Unicameral passed […]

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Independence Day Tea Party Report on Lincoln’s KOLN Ch. 10 News

Originally published July 5, 2009, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 24, 2011. Leave a Comment

I’m very pleased with the coverage by Channel 10 on our Tea Party. Check it out:

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