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LAST CALL: Not Signed a Petition Yet? AND A Toast

Originally published May 27, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 1 Comment

LAST CALL: Not Signed a Petition Yet? AND A Toast

If you have not as yet signed the referendum petition, would like to, and have not been able to find a circulator, you may want to put in a request to have someone bring you a petition TODAY. Read full articleLAST CALL: Not Signed a Petition Yet? AND A Toast

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Why Process Matters

Originally published May 26, 2012, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Why Process Matters

A great deal has been said in the Lincoln Journal Star and elsewhere about the “fairness” ordinance passed by the Lincoln City Council. It is a great mistake to say that the process by which the Council amended the ordinance does not matter. It matters a great deal. Read full articleWhy Process Matters

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Civil Society, Featured, Local, Morality Tagged With: 14 day petition deadline, accountability, accountability of elected officials, allow people to vote on ordinance, anti-discrimination ordinance, arbitrary abuses of power, attorney general lincoln ordinance, attorney general opinion ordinance, chris beutler, city council lincoln vote homosexuals, city council subverting law, city council vote on gay ordinance, City of Lincoln, city of lincoln ordinance referendum, city of lincoln petition drive, city of lincoln referendum petition forms, consent of the governed, download petition forms, due process, due process of the law, effects of lincoln ordinance on business, effects of lincoln ordinance on church, effects of lincoln ordinance on work, f.a. hayek, fairness ordinance, family first, fifth amendment, flouting rule of law, force ordinance to a vote, fourteenth amendment, help gather petition signatures, home rule charter, homosexual and gender identity ordinance, how to gather petition signatures, if it feels good do it, illegal homosexual ordinance, illegal process with ordinance, incoln nebraska homosexual and transgender ordinance, intelligible law, lack of transparency, law turned on its head, lgbtiq, lgbtiq protection ordinance lincoln, lincoln fairness ordinance, lincoln municipal code, lincoln ordinance referendum petition guidelines, may 14 vote lincoln city council, may 28 petition deadline, nebraska constitution, omaha and lincoln anti-discrimination ordinances, organizers petition drive lincoln, petitions, predictability of the law, procedural justice, protected classes, rational law, referendum, rod confer, rule of law, senator padme amidala, stability of the law, star wars, star wars political analogies, state of nebraska protected classes, state of nebraska statutes on discrimintion, this is how liberty dies, transparency, vote on ordinance, who is gathering petition signatures for lincoln gay ordinance

Why Every Lincoln Voter Should Sign Referendum Petition

Originally published May 21, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

Why Every Lincoln Voter Should Sign Referendum Petition

As many Lincolnites know, a referendum petition effort has been organized in response to the Lincoln City Council’s vote on Monday, May 14, 2012 to create protection for a new class of persons based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Members of the City Council subverted the rule of law in multiple ways. Read full articleWhy Every Lincoln Voter Should Sign Referendum Petition

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City of Lincoln Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Referendum Petition Drive

Originally published May 16, 2012, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. 1 Comment

City of Lincoln Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Referendum Petition Drive

A petition drive is currently in progress to allow the people of Lincoln to vote on the anti-discrimination ordinance passed by the Lincoln City Council on Monday, May 14, but time is of the essence. Organizers only have 15 days from the date the ordinance was approved to secure 2500 signatures on referendum petition forms.  Read full articleCity of Lincoln Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Referendum Petition Drive

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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

The Few . . . The Placated . . . The Occupiers

Originally published December 16, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 7 Comments

The Few . . . The Placated . . . The Occupiers

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Constitution, Featured, GiN in the news, Grassroots in Nebraska, In the News, Legal Limit, Local Tagged With: "occupation movement", #ows, 1400 AM lincoln radio, 1400 klin, ad-hoc system of law, centennial mall, chris beutler, city attorney lincoln nebraska, City of Lincoln, city of lincoln ordinances, city of lincoln parks and recreation, city of lincoln parks and recreation department, civil disobedience, coby mach, constitutional republic, constitutional rights, drive time lincoln, executive director julie schmit-albin, first amendment rights, freedom of speech, government corruption, government favoritism, lincoln fire department, lincoln journal star, lincoln journal star occupy lincoln, lincoln nebraska, mayor beutler, media bias, modern liberalism, moral relativism, nebraska right to life, occupy lincoln, occupy lincoln indian tipi, occupy lincoln puppets, occupy lincoln shanty town, occupy lincoln tee pee, occupy lincoln tipi, occupy wall street, over-regulation, percentage of population involved in occupy, permit for events city of lincoln, permit requirements for protests and rallies in lincoln nebraska, permits, progressives, progressivism, public officials, public property, public-access area, right-of-way, rights to speech and assembly, rod confer, rule of law, signs, situational ethics, State Capitol, talk radio occupy lincoln issue, taxpayer liability, Tea Party, tea party compared to occupy wall street, teaparty, tee pee, the 1%, the 99%, tipi, us bank lincoln

City Attorney RE Occupy Lincoln – Double Standard, Double Talk

Originally published December 3, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

City Attorney RE Occupy Lincoln – Double Standard, Double Talk

Earlier this week, Julie Schmit-Albin, Linda and myself spoke with reporter Kay Kemmet from the Omaha World-Herald about the City’s handling of different groups and their use of public spaces, and specifically, of course, their handling of the Occupy Lincoln group. Her story was published on Friday; click the image to read it in full. […]

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Occupy Lincoln Tipi Smokes and City Ordinances Burn, Officials Fiddle

Originally published December 1, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 11 Comments

Occupy Lincoln Tipi Smokes and City Ordinances Burn, Officials Fiddle

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Nebraska Right To Life Not Alone In Concerns About City Of Lincoln’s Handling Of Occupy Group

Originally published November 29, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Nebraska Right To Life Not Alone In Concerns About City Of Lincoln’s Handling Of Occupy Group

I hope all of our visitors had a blessed and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday. I took an extended (and unannounced) holiday break myself and very much enjoyed time with family. I even enjoyed chasing dust bunnies and scrubbing word work in preparation for our usual Thanksgiving visitors. My computer was off and if a TV was […]

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