For those voters seeking to be better informed for the Tuesday, May 7, 2013, City of Lincoln General Election, a brief overview of what happened in the April 9 Primary and what will appear on the May 7 ballot: 13.35% of registered Lincoln voters cast ballots in the local Primary election April 9, “choosing” the […]
Official Sample Ballot City of Lincoln General Election May 7, 2013
By popular demand, here is the official Sample Ballot for the City of Lincoln General Election on May 7, 2013. In addition to listing the candidates for City Council, Lincoln Public Schools Board of Education, and Airport Authority Board of Directors, it’s very important to note that the General Election ballot also includes TWO proposed […]
Q & A with Roy Christensen, Lincoln City Council Candidate
Tuesday, April 9, 2013, is the Primary Election for several local government entities. Click HERE to see / get the Official Sample Ballot. This article focuses on one of the candidates for the three at-large City Council seats – Roy Christensen – on Tuesday’s ballot – for an explanation, read note1We decided to focus our […]
VIDEO Exclusive: NE Teachers’ Union Wants “Pet” NE Senators to “Stay”
NE’s most powerful special interest lobby supports “the public option” for health care and other extreme left-wing agenda items, and in addition to their “investments” in many of our elected officials, NSEA has moved to provide $5,000 for radio ads to advocate for the extension of NE State Senators’ term limits. Read full articleVIDEO Exclusive: NE Teachers’ Union Wants “Pet” NE Senators to “Stay”
The Few . . . The Placated . . . The Occupiers
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. […]
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 […]
Occupy Lincoln Shanty Town: City of Lincoln PERMITing Hypocrisy
We have a Shanty Town on Lincoln’s Centennial Mall with an increasing number of tents. “Residents” of this new community have every intention of staying indefinitely. Just how is that possible? Whatever disagreements I have with the Occupy Lincoln group, I do agree that they have a fundamental right to speak their minds. Because I […]
Nebraska is Essentially a One Party State
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh article in a series about Nebraska politics, particularly as pertains to the Nebraska Republican Party and closely connected groups and their relationship to the “tea party movement”. We recommend starting with the article “Nebraska’s Ruling Class and the Perils of (Assisted) Political Suicide” which includes links to all other […]
