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Under Those Sermon Subpoenas: “Disappeared” Ballot Initiatives

Originally published October 28, 2014, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Under Those Sermon Subpoenas: “Disappeared” Ballot Initiatives

Subpoenas issued to a group of pastors ordering them to turn over sermons to the City of Houston made news headlines October 14. For several days, the only information I had was gleaned from a few passing references on TV and stories featured adjacent to other news I was reading. Some included a few lines […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Local Tagged With: annise parker, ballot initiative, ballot measures, city council, equal rights ordinance, f, fairness ordinance, government corruption, homosexual and gender identity ordinance, houston, mayor, nebraska, pastors, petition drive, petition referendum, subpoenas, texas

City of Lincoln: Mayoral and Council Elections Sample Ballot and Information

Originally published May 3, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated May 6, 2012. Leave a Comment

City of Lincoln: Mayoral and Council Elections Sample Ballot and Information

There is an election today, Tuesday, May 3, for a number of offices within Lincoln government including Mayor, several city council seats, Airport Authority, and Board of Education. For those looking for some additional information about the election, I’ve put together some links here that may be helpful. The Lancaster County Election Commissioner’s website includes […]

Filed Under: 2011 Elections, City of Lincoln Tagged With: arena, city council, city of lincoln election, cleaner greener lincoln, lancaster county election commissioner, may 3, may 3 election lincoln, mayor beutler, mayor chris beutler, tammy buffington

Mayor Beutler: Crafty Politician, Walter Mitty, or Just Going Rogue?

Originally published November 12, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated November 12, 2010. 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Local Tagged With: bluffs road lanfill, cap & tax, cap & trade, cap and tax, cap and trade, carbon caps, carbon credit exchange, carbon credits, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, chicago climate exchange, chris beutler, city council, city council meeting, city forestor, City of Lincoln, city regulations, co2 emissions, co2 pollutant, collapse carbon credit exchange, electricity, environmental protection agency, epa, epa declaration carbon, going rogue, lincoln nebraska, lincoln public works director, mayor chris beutler, mayor's office, methane gas capture, politicians, public works, secret life of walter mitty, stimulus funds, Sustainable Development

Time To Take the Bite Out of Beutler Before He Implements Cap & Trade in Lincoln

Originally published November 11, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated November 11, 2010. 1 Comment

Time To Take the Bite Out of Beutler Before He Implements Cap & Trade in Lincoln

By Shelli Dawdy Just when I thought I could not possibly ever be surprised at what might come out of my television, I was reminded that my brain is simply not wired to conceive of the endless number of nonsensical ideas politicians will attempt to implement while we’re all looking the other way. I really […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Local Tagged With: bluffs road landfill, cap & tax, cap & trade, capping carbon, carbon credit exchange, carbon emission, channel 8 lincoln, chris beutler, city council, City of Lincoln, cleaner greener lincoln, electricity, environment, environmental protection agency, environmentalism, epa, excess carbon credits, global climate change, klkn tv, lincoln building codes, lincoln mayor, lincoln public works, local news, mayor chris beutler, mayor press conference, mayor's press conference, methane drills infrastructure, methane gas recaptures, methane gas wells, public works, stimulus dollars, stimulus funds, Sustainable Development, sustainable future at work, un agenda 21, united nations, university of nebraska

GiN on KLKN TV: Tea Party Movement Impact In Nebraska

Originally published September 18, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 24, 2011. Leave a Comment

GiN on KLKN TV: Tea Party Movement Impact In Nebraska

By Shelli Dawdy Lincoln’s KLKN TV contacted me Friday, requesting an interview regarding recent developments in the primary elections. The reporter, Stephanie Costanzo, informed KLKN had done a story everyday this week on the tea party’s impact and they were looking for the local perspective. Did the successes in other places in the country provide […]

Filed Under: Featured, GiN in the news, Grassroots in Nebraska, Videos Tagged With: 10th Amendment, boots on the ground, campaigns, channel 8 lincoln, Christine O’Donnell, city council, Constitution, county, delaware gop, Delaware primary, delaware senate, election 2010, election efforts, election focus, Facts are Stubborn Things, Featured, free enterprise, gin, gop, grassroots election, Grassroots in Nebraska, grassroots movement, In the News, incumbents, klkn, klkntv, Lancaster County, legislature, limited government, lincoln news, lincoln tea party, local, local activism, local news, nebraska, nebraska 10th amendment, nebraska tea party, negrassroots, republican party, rinos, rnc, ruling class, shelli dawdy, sovereignty resolution, state elections, state legislatures, stubborn facts, tea party candidates, tea party impact, tea party in nebraska, Tea Party Movement, Unicameral

Event at Antelope Park TONIGHT, June 3rd @5:30PM Opposing H.R. 676

Originally published June 3, 2009, By GiN Admin. Updated January 25, 2011. Leave a Comment

As noted a couple of days ago, I will continue to get out information regarding H.R. 676: The United States National Health Insurance Act “Expanded & Improved Medicare for ALL”. I have received some very consistent feedback from folks regarding the first message I sent: it was written for people who would already be opposed […]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: adam hornung, antelope park, bob evnen, city council, health care reform, hr 676, lincoln nebraska, patients unied now, senator, speakers, state, state board of education, tony fulton, Unicameral

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