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ACTION ALERT: Lancaster County Board Hearing Tuesday

Originally published February 12, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated November 29, 2011. 1 Comment

The Lancaster County Board is holding a hearing on what to do with the proceeds of Lancaster Manor. Tuesday, February 15 5:00pm City Council / County Board Chambers 555 S. 10th St. Lincoln, NE 68508 Board Member Brent Smoyer sent the following information about the meeting: Now, the endowment folks are rallying to push for […]

Filed Under: Action Alerts, Featured, Lancaster County Tagged With: brent smoyer, budget, economy, endowment fund, funds, Government Spending, lancaster county board, lancaster county board hearing, lancaster county endowment fund, lancaster manor proceeds, proceeds, sale, savings

Listen LIVE Tonight 6pm: CIR – Health Care – More!

Originally published February 4, 2011, By GiN Admin. Updated October 11, 2011. 1 Comment

Listen LIVE Tonight 6pm: CIR – Health Care – More!

Listen TONIGHT – LIVE Friday, February 4, 2011 6:00pm – 8:00pm Shelli has been asked to sit in once again for Kaye Beach on the Axxiom for Liberty radio show. Perfect timing! There’s a lot to talk about… High costs for public employee salaries and benefits is a problem everywhere, but it’s an even bigger […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Events, Featured, GiN Members Tagged With: axxiom for liberty, biometrics, cir, cir hearings, commission of industrial relatons, data aggregation, defined benefits plans, gin, government budgets, government spending, Government Spending, government workers compensation, grassroots in nebraska on radio, Health Care, health care law, healthcare, healthcare law, high taxes in nebraska, howard houchen, implementation by states, labor disputes, live radio, nebraska taxation, nullification, public employee salaries and benefits, public employee unions, radio, real id, realid, shelli dawdy, state and local government employees, state sovereignty, states implementing health care law

GiN Election Information: Now Available Here In Printable Form

Originally published October 29, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated October 29, 2010. Leave a Comment

GiN Election Information: Now Available Here In Printable Form

For readers’ convenience, we have prepared a printable PDF version of the election information we’ve put out. Feel free to download, print, and share. Just click anywhere on either snapshot below to download and view. If you’d rather view the full-sized PDF before downloading and printing, click HERE. I have set the link to open […]

Filed Under: 2010 Election, Featured Tagged With: amanda mcgill, amendment, amendment 1, amendment 2, amendments, ballot, bill avery, borrowing, brenty smoyer, candidates, chad wright, city funding, city government, county board, county government, danielle conrad, debt, deficit, district 26, district 28, district 46, economic development, election 2010, election day, electionne, federal funding, funding sources, gin, gin cheat sheet, Government Spending, Grassroots in Nebraska, greg butcher, indebtedness, lancaster, lancaster county commission, mesures, nancy russell, nebraska constitution, november 2, projects, questions, shane osborn, state treasurer, tom dierks

Jeremy Nordquist Confused About What Sustainable Means

Originally published October 14, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 22, 2011. Leave a Comment

Jeremy Nordquist Confused About What Sustainable Means

This article is part of a continuing series about Nebraska Senator Jeremy Nordquist (7). There are several important reasons why we are allocating so much time to this topic. We ask that regular readers of the GiN site visit daily at least through this weekend and share this information with whomever they believe would be […]

Filed Under: Featured, Unicameral Tagged With: analysis, bailouts, budget deficits, budget shortfall, committee, defined benefits, district 7, economic downturn, economy, employee pensions, federal funding, financial crisis, government, Government Spending, jeremy nordquist, ld 7, legislature, little italy, meltdown, nebraska deficit, nebraska retirement systems committee, nebraska shortfall, nebraska unicameral, omaha, research analyst, retirement benefits, state pensions, stock market crash, sustainability, sustainable, Unicameral, unsustainable

Independence Day Tea Party Report on Lincoln’s KOLN Ch. 10 News

Originally published July 5, 2009, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 24, 2011. Leave a Comment

I’m very pleased with the coverage by Channel 10 on our Tea Party. Check it out:

Filed Under: Activism, Events, GiN in the news, Grassroots in Nebraska, Rally, Tea Party, Volunteers Tagged With: audit the fed, bailouts, bill, borrowing, bryan van deun, bryson kerns, cap & trade, cap and trade, capitol, congress, congressmen, deficit, end the fed, gary redden, Government Spending, grassroots, Grassroots in Nebraska, grassrootsne.com, house, jay tolliver, john o. erickson, legislature, lincoln, linda rohman, ne, neb, nebraska, politics, president, printing, protest, Rally, reckless, representatives, ryan sellers, senator, senators, shelli dawdy, socialized medicine, State Capitol, steve davenport, tarp, tea parties, tea parties 2009, Tea Party, tea party 2009, teaparties 2009, teaparty, teaparty 2009, Tenth Amendment, Unicameral

City of Lincoln Budget Process: The Mayor’s Approach is Flawed

Originally published May 28, 2009, By GiN Admin. Updated January 25, 2011. Leave a Comment

Notes: If you are a property owner in Lincoln, it’s important to take notice of the Mayor’s Budget and the “Taking Charge” project, which is stated as an effort to obtain residents’ input. It’s important to pay attention to the budgeting process overall and the Mayor’s project in particular as it appears higher property taxes […]

Filed Under: Budget, City of Lincoln, Lancaster County Tagged With: budget meeting, budget process, cents per resident, chris beutler, city, City of Lincoln, council, Government Spending, increase, mayor, mayor's office, nebraska, property, public survey, scientific, tax, Taxes, unscientific

GiN Quotes Collection: Taxes, Spending & Debt

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated January 1, 2009. Leave a Comment

TAXES, SPENDING, DEBT & CURRENCY To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ~ Thomas Jefferson Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down. ~ Robert Orben The art […]

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