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LB512 and Common Core — A Potential Threat to Local Control of Schools

Originally published March 18, 2013, By Linda. Updated May 14, 2016. 3 Comments

LB512 and Common Core — A Potential Threat to Local Control of Schools

Just a quick post today to call your attention to a bill in the Unicameral that’s not attracting much attention, but should.  WHEN THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING CONCERNING THIS BILL ON FEBRUARY 25TH, NO ONE SPOKE IN OPPOSITION. LB512 was introduced by Senator Jim Scheer (Dist. 19), who’s a new face in the […]

Filed Under: Big Brother Government, Data Gathering, Education, Featured, Government Spending, Nebraska, Senators, State Legislation, State Sovereignty, Stimulus, Unicameral Tagged With: 10th Amendment, bill and melinda gates foundation, bribing state governments to accept federal control, common core curriculum, common core state standards, Education, k through 12 educational standards, language arts standards, local control of education, math standards, nebraska department of education, nebraska state board of education, race to the top program, standards for math, state sovereignty, state standards for education, stimulus funds, u.s. department of education grants

Reasons U.S. in Trouble: There Are Signs Everywhere (Literally)

Originally published September 7, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 16, 2014. 3 Comments

Reasons U.S. in Trouble: There Are Signs Everywhere (Literally)

Updated October 13, 2012 Note: Even if you don’t live in Nebraska, you are likely to find this article of interest. In fact, we would ask you to read it and see if you notice similar phenomena in your area. If so, we encourage you to leave comment (see bottom). A few weeks ago, Linda […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Budget, Featured, Government Spending, Health Care, Immigration, Like Drunken Sailors, Nebraska, Sustainable Development, Taxes, Welfare Tagged With: chris beutler, cleaner greener lincoln, commercial real estate bubble, commercial real estate bubble nebraska, community action partnership, coventry nebraska, department of health and human services, doctor bear, early childhood education, english as official language, entitlement programs, first five nebraska, fraud waste abuse welfare programs, government advertising, government advertising welfare programs, government billboards, head start, health care fraud, health care reform, hell's grannies, lancaster and saunders counties, lancaster county saac, lancaster county substance abuse action coalition, lincoln council on alcoholism and drugs, lincoln energy challenge, lincoln real estate, lincoln real estate bubble, lots of for sale signs lincoln businesses, mayor beutler, medicaid, medicaid enrollment, medicare, monty python, mortgage meltdown, nebraska businesses, nebraska constitution, nebraska medicaid, nebraska primary industries by sector, nebraska senior medicare patrol, nebraska seniors, nebraska shiip, obamacare, omaha diversity manuals, putting the aid in medicaid, schips program, size of government nebraska, smp nebraska, sober kids, soberkids.org, stimulus funds, Sustainable Development, united healthcare, wasteful government spending, welfare enrollment, welfare nebraska, welfare programs

Deserving of Darts: Debt Ceiling Trial Balloons From Dems and GOP

Originally published July 18, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 7, 2014. 1 Comment

Deserving of Darts: Debt Ceiling Trial Balloons From Dems and GOP

Considering that most of the wheeling and dealing involved in government goes on behind closed doors, more likely than not, most of what we Americans hear and see playing out in the media is simply maneuvering. These P.R. battles seem to provide politicians the ability to “throw some red meat” to their respective bases of […]

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Hearing Testimony: Collective Bargaining By NE Govt Obstructs Spending Caps (CIR)

Originally published February 9, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated February 9, 2011. 3 Comments

Hearing Testimony: Collective Bargaining By NE Govt Obstructs Spending Caps (CIR)

Monday the Nebraska Legislature’s Business and Labor  Committee convened hearings on the nine measures that propose various changes to the State’s statutes pertaining to how public employee salaries, wages, and some benefits are determined. The whole issue is being commonly referenced as “the CIR”, which is the entity that has the authority to settle disputes […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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NE Budget: Senators Hope Feds Will Bail Us Out

Originally published August 30, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 22, 2011. Leave a Comment

By Shelli Dawdy This article is the second in a continuing series about Nebraska spending and budgeting. Click the title below to read the first: Federal Funding Tap Dance: Are States Puppets or Partners? In late June, members of Grassroots in Nebraska attended an Ad Hoc Committee meeting at the State Capitol, in part to […]

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