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Prenatal Care Bills LB1110/LB599 – It’s NOT About Abortion Anymore

Originally published July 28, 2011, By Linda. Updated April 12, 2012. Leave a Comment

Prenatal Care Bills LB1110/LB599 – It’s NOT About Abortion Anymore

[jbox color=”white” width=”800″ shadow=”3″ jbox_css=”color:#800080; border:4px solid #2a5555;” content_css=”color:#393939;” icon=”http://grassrootsne.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/gin-exclamation-point-e1333583663780.jpg” title=”Important Article Note”] One of the subjects in this article has become part of a long-running series provides. Readers interested in this issue are encouraged to see a list of related articles, found at the following link: GiN articles about LB1110, Prenatal coverage, Medicaid expansion […]

Filed Under: Budget, Charity vs Welfare, Featured, Government Spending, Health Care, Immigration, Like Drunken Sailors, Morality, Nebraska, Personal Responsibility, Senators, State Legislation, Unicameral, Welfare Tagged With: 102nd 1st session unicameral, 2010 legislature ne, 2011 legislature ne, abortion issues, amanda mcgill, campbell, cap dierks, cost of abortion, cost of medicaid, cost of prenatal care, cradle to grave welfare, entitlement programs, illegal immigrants welfare benefits, illegal immigration, kathy campbell, lb1110, lb594, lb599, left leaning media, lincoln journal star, lincoln journal star bias, ljs, media bias, medicaid, nebraska abortion legislation, nebraska abortion statistics, nebraska births, nebraska department of health and human services, nebraska legislature, nebraska medicaid, nebraska one subject rule, nebraska welfare, nedhhs, one world clinic, prenatal care, private charity, senator dierks, senator kathy campbell, state legislative issues, upcoming legislation nebraska, welfare state

NE Public Employee Pay, Benefits: Even the Journal Star Sees Need for Reform

Originally published December 20, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 15, 2014. 2 Comments

NE Public Employee Pay, Benefits: Even the Journal Star Sees Need for Reform

By Shelli Dawdy GiN is frequently at odds with the Lincoln Journal Star’s editorial board, but for once we agree. Nebraska’s municipalities, counties, and the State simply cannot afford the status quo regarding how public employees’ salaries and benefits are determined. In an editorial published December 16, Lincoln Journal Star cited the recent raises granted […]

Filed Under: Budget, Featured, In the News, Nebraska, State Legislation Tagged With: bureau of labor statistics, cir, cir reform, commission on industrial relations, cost of employees, cost of government employees, defined benefits plans, government employee unions, government worker compensation, government workers make more, lincoln city budget, lincoln firefighters, lincoln firefighters raise, lincoln journal star, lincoln journal star editorial, lincoln nebraska employee wages and salaries, ljs, nebraska, nebraska retirement system, private sector employees, public sector employees, public sector vs private sector

Nebraska Needs A State Treasurer! Vote NO on Amendment 2 (2010)

Originally published October 28, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated October 24, 2012. Leave a Comment

Nebraska Needs A State Treasurer! Vote NO on Amendment 2 (2010)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is about an amendment on the November 2010 ballot, not about 2012. For information about amendments on the November 2012 ballot, click HERE. By Shelli Dawdy There are two proposed amendments to the State Constitution on the ballot next Tuesday. To read about Amendment 1, click HERE. Amendment 2 is a proposal […]

Filed Under: 2010 Election, Featured, Unicameral Tagged With: 10th Amendment, accountability, amendment 2, amendment no. 2, ballot, ballot questions, campbell, candidates, checkbook, checks and balances, city government, conflict of interest, county government, cut costs, dennis utter, editorial, editorial board, election 2010, election day, election2010, eliminate waste, elimination of treasurer, federal funds, federal grant applications, gatekeeper, government spending, hastings, heineman, how they voted, Legislation, legislators, legislature, lincoln journal star, ljs, local government, lr284ca, measure, mello, ne unicameral, nebraska senators, nebraska sovereignty, nebraska unicameral, nordquist, november 2, orr, oversight, question, roll call vote, shane osborn, state auditor, state checkbook, state legislators, state senators, state sovereignty, state treasurer, streamline government, Tenth Amendment, thone, tony fulton, treasurer, utter

Fur Flying Over Journal Star Column on Progressivism By Shelli

Originally published October 21, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated October 21, 2010. 2 Comments

Fur Flying Over Journal Star Column on Progressivism By Shelli

By Shelli Dawdy The publishing of my editorial in the Lincoln Journal Star on Wednesday and resulting comments on the paper’s website is a good time to recall other GiN members’ articles and urge GiN members and site visitors to engage in the debate. At the beginning of October, the Lincoln Journal Star published three […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured Tagged With: american history, beck, editorial, editorials, glenn beck, glenn beck biography, History, history of progressivism, lincoln journal star, ljs, local view column, milbank, opinion, progressive, progressives, progressivism, tea parties, Tea Party, teaparties, teaparty, teddy roosevelt, u.s. history, woodrow wilson

GiN Whine List: The Green Shirts

Originally published August 16, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated August 16, 2010. Leave a Comment

GiN Whine List: The Green Shirts

GiN will be “honoring” those who – in our estimation – complain or stir up controversy over trivial issues or do so unnecessarily to win their point or “get their way”. The first honoree on this list was nominated by Linda (hat tip!). It is a group who showed up at a Lincoln City Council […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Whine List Tagged With: City of Lincoln, city overspending, deeana winters, Facts are Stubborn Things, free enterprise, gin, gin whine list, Grassroots in Nebraska, limited government, lincoln, lincoln city budget issues, lincoln city forester, lincoln journal star, ljs, local, ne, nebraska, shelli dawdy, stubborn facts

A Republic If You Can Keep It

Originally published July 15, 2010, By Linda. Updated September 21, 2014. 2 Comments

A Republic If You Can Keep It

The story goes that Benjamin Franklin was approached by a woman as he left the Constitutional Convention 1 Recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in his diary which was reprinted in 1906. Reference.. She asked: “What have you given us?” Franklin is said to have replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” This exchange […]

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Ignorance is Bliss? No. Ignorance is Ignorance.

Originally published July 9, 2010, By Linda. Updated February 27, 2018. 1 Comment

Ignorance is Bliss?  No.  Ignorance is Ignorance.

“More than 200 years later, we’re still trying to nail down who exactly these men were and what exactly they believed.” Upon reading this line from Micah Mertes’ article “Whose Side are the Founders On?” in the July 4th edition of the Lincoln Journal Star, I wanted to ask a few questions of my own.  […]

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Whose Side ARE the Founders On? Easy.

Originally published July 9, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 24, 2011. Leave a Comment

Whose Side ARE the Founders On? Easy.

By Shelli Dawdy This is the third and final in a series examining an article in the Lincoln Journal Star on July 4 entitled “Whose side are the Founding Fathers on?” Just click one of the titles to read the first part: “The Founding? Move Along Folks, Nothing to See There. Onward Progress!” or second […]

Filed Under: Constitution, Founding Fathers, History Tagged With: american history, benjamin franklin, Constitution, constitutional convention, declaration, founding fathers, george washington, gin, Grassroots in Nebraska, history of progressivism, ignorance of history, independence day, john adams, journal star, limited government, lincoln journal star article, ljs, media bias, miracle in philadelphia, philosophy of the founding, progress in history, progress of history, progressive arguments, progressive thought, progressives, progressivism, ratification of the constitution, religion and america, rewriting history, the founding, the lincoln journal star, thomas jefferson, throw away the constitution, u.s. history, whose side are the founders on?

Efforts to Muddle History of the Founding Don’t Change Its Facts

Originally published July 8, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 26, 2011. Leave a Comment

Efforts to Muddle History of the Founding Don’t Change Its Facts

By Shelli Dawdy This is the second of  a three part piece examining an article in the Lincoln Journal Star on July 4 entitled “Whose side are the Founding Fathers on?” Just click the title to read the first part: “The Founding? Move Along Folks, Nothing to See There. Onward Progress!“ There is a related […]

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The Founding? Move Along Folks NOTHING To See There. Onward Progress!

Originally published July 4, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 26, 2011. 2 Comments

The Founding? Move Along Folks NOTHING To See There. Onward Progress!

By Shelli Dawdy This is part one of a two part piece. The Lincoln Journal Star featured a piece in their Independence Day edition entitled “Whose Side Are the Founding Fathers On?” The piece was written with a bottom-line message: there’s no clear answer. It’ll be a topic of perpetual debate. According to the article, […]

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