GiN’s recommendations for the 2012 General Election, with a focus on Nebraska issues. This is a four-page PDF guide. When viewed on a computer, it has activated (clickable) links to additional information on every issue presented and to outside resources recommended to provide information necessary to fill out one’s ballot on Tuesday. Links to sample […]
NE Proposed Amendment No. 1: Vote AGAINST More Political Games
Editor’s Note: If you’re looking for information about any of the other proposed amendments which will appear on Nebraska ballots statewide on November 6, click
Senate Race Rope a Dope? Heineman, Bruning & Deb Fischer…and Stenberg
UPDATED May 16, 2012: Note that this article was published earlier in the day Tuesday, before the polls even closed. I am not going to make any changes to this article so that you can read it, as written, before the race was declared. The only point to note, I believe, is that it is […]
Political Hacks Swarm NE: Invasion of the Bus People
I don’t know if everyone reading this is old enough to remember all the press about “the boat people” fleeing Vietnam in the ’70s. According to Wikipedia, references to the boat people “came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from Communist-controlled Vietnam, following the Vietnam War.” Desperate […]
Nebraska: We Have Our Very Own Community Organizer
This one’s going to take several rounds of darts… Omahan Jeremy Nordquist just keeps coming to our attention because Nebraska’s two largest newspapers seem to have him on speed dial. If there’s a need to get a quote from someone on the opposite side of an issue from a Republican, or there’s a big spending […]
