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. […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Deserving of Darts: Lincoln City Council & Mayor
New GiN Feature…Deserving of Darts Recently the GiN “Whine List” focused on a group of 50 Lincolnites who showed up at a City Council meeting in green shirts to protest the proposed elimination of the City Forester position. For many years running, the City of Lincoln has been running budget deficits. Unfortunately, too many city […]
