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Lincoln Arena: A Shell Game With Bailout Money

Originally published October 9, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. Leave a Comment

Lincoln Arena: A Shell Game With Bailout Money

Editor’s Note: Thanks to Don Raskey for this excellent, well researched article. Don worked hard with the No2Arena people to get the full facts in front of Lincoln voters. His continued efforts to follow up are much appreciated. By Donald Raskey The mayor and the Joint Public Agency (JPA) have been touting the future $50 […]

Filed Under: Bailouts, Budget, City of Lincoln, Featured, Government Spending, Like Drunken Sailors, Local, Stimulus Tagged With: american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009, arena, babs, babs bonds, bailout, bailout bill, bonds, building america bonds, chris beutler, City of Lincoln, debt, federal deficit, federal dollars, federal subsidies, fiscal federalism, joint public agency, jpa, lincoln ne, mayor, national debt, nebraska, new arena, no2arena, state sovereignty, tarp, Tenth Amendment

Deserving of Darts: Lincoln City Council & Mayor

Originally published August 27, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated August 27, 2010. Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Deserving of Darts, Local Tagged With: budget cuts, bus routes, busroutes, chris beutler, city arena lincoln nebraska, city budget deficits lincoln, city budgets, city council meeting, city forester, city of lincoln budget cuts, city of lincoln nebraska, cleaner greener lincoln, deena winters, deserving of darts, Facts are Stubborn Things, Featured, free enterprise, gin, government spending, Grassroots in Nebraska, green shirts, green t-shirts, limited government, lincoln arena, lincoln city budget, lincoln journal star, local, meter maids, ne, nebraska, no to arena, no2arena, shelli dawdy, stubborn facts

HELL NO To Arena – It Is NOT Just a Lincoln Issue It Is a NEBRASKA Issue

Originally published May 7, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated May 6, 2012. Leave a Comment

HELL NO To Arena – It Is NOT Just a Lincoln Issue It Is a NEBRASKA Issue

By Shelli Dawdy I’m sure there are many Nebraskans who may not have even heard about the City of Lincoln arena issue and those who have understandably not focused on it because it is…well, its a City of Lincoln issue. And yes, it is, to the extent that the residents of Lincoln are the folks […]

Filed Under: Budget, City of Lincoln, Government Spending, In the News, Like Drunken Sailors Tagged With: City of Lincoln, city of lincoln arena facts, city of lincoln debt, deena winters lincoln journal star, lincoln area, lincoln arena controversry, lincoln haymarket, lincoln nebraska arena issue, lincoln nebraska budget problems, lincoln nebraska city government, nebraska taxpayers arena, no2arena, university of nebraska, university of nebraska busing students, unl problems

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