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By Lance Evans (Editor's note: We'd like to thank Lance for his hard work with us this spring and summer! Good luck, Lance!) Recently I was lucky to attended the Midwest Rural Assembly in South Sioux City, Nebraska. The Midwest Rural Assembly was a two day event that featured presenters, round-table discussions and delicious locally-sourced foods. In addition to a round-table ab...
Blog for Rural America - 8:43 a.m.
If one Republican member of the nonpartisan Nebraska State Board of Education has his way, that body will be doing Gov. Dave Heineman's bidding , spitting in the face of the federal government and its efforts to reform our nation's broken health care system. The Lincoln Journal-Star reports: The Nebraska State Board of Education will consider a resolution this week calling for the...
New Nebraska Network - Wed 2:40 a.m. - 3 clicks 
ActBlue Nebraska is BACK!!! And, it needs your help to make sure our best candidates have the support they need to win in November as we continue to build a better progressive vision for Nebraska's future. Please contribute what you can in money and in your time. Gov. Dave Heineman's letter threatening Nebraska's education community with decreased funding if they refuse to ...
New Nebraska Network - Tue 7:06 p.m. - 5 clicks
By Lance Evans A few weeks ago I attended the Nebraska Energy Fair . It was a fantastic event! There were presentations on everything from helpful household tips to conserve energy at home to how to support legislation for renewable energy standards . If you didn't make it to the 2010 Nebraska Energy Fair you should definitely keep an eye out for it in 2011. One of the interesting pe...
Blog for Rural America - Tue 10:02 a.m. - 11 clicks
This weekend, NNN turned its attention to Gov. Dave Heineman's shameless politicization of public education to further the Republican Party's campaign to repeal health care reform. Heineman's using taxpayer dollars to commission a loaded, politically-motivated study of this legislation's expected costs to the state followed the playbook of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R). They even used th...
New Nebraska Network - Mon 9:40 a.m. - 8 clicks
Last week, Gov. Dave Heineman made a high-profile attack on health care reform, releasing a Milliman Inc. report commissioned by his administration that estimated reform's costs to the state of Nebraska at $526 to $766 million over the next 10 years. There's plenty suspect about those numbers that needs to be refuted in a future post, but - for now - the big story is what Heineman's ...
New Nebraska Network - Sat 5:26 a.m. - 6 clicks
There's recently been some interesting and very important back-and-forth in the Omaha World-Herald's Public Pulse, to which every voter in the 2nd Congressional District should have been paying attention. You won't find a clearer example of why Lee Terry can't be trusted to responsibly balance the federal budget - and why Terry and his toadies can't be trusted on the campaign trail as they f...
New Nebraska Network - Aug 26 - 7 clicks
2nd District Congressman Lee Terry sure is OUTRAGED by the $13 trillion national debt. We know because he says so in his first TV ad of the 2010 general election campaign: Terry says, "In Nebraska, we understand you don't borrow what you can't pay for." That may be true of voters, but it isn't true of Lee Terry. In his first ten years in Congress, Terry contributed t...
New Nebraska Network - Aug 24 - 2 clicks
Because of Nebraska's low unemployment rate, the unemployed in our state are only eligible for 60 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits of the full 99 available where workers have taken the biggest hit. That's created some real hardship for overlooked Nebraskans facing unemployment - and some easy openings for the sort of shameless political opportunism we've come to expect from our Republican ...
New Nebraska Network - Aug 23 - 3 clicks
" Heineman has the worst fiscal record of any governor in the state. He won't call a special session of the Legislature to deal with the budget deficit because [he] is delaying the inevitable." - Mike Meister, North Platte Telegraph (08/21/2010) In the video at right, Mike Meister makes a strong case against Gov. Dave Heineman's fiscal recklessness - overseeing an almost...
New Nebraska Network - Aug 21 - 4 clicks
By Rebekah Davis 3rd District Candidate for Congress ------------------------------------------------- If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and dial again..... Want to call to your relatives in Iowa? That's an extra $100 on your phone bill this month, but calling Kansas is free. Need to call 911 in an emergency? You should have no problem shelling out the $200 fee from the pho...
New Nebraska Network - Aug 20 - 2 clicks
ActBlue Nebraska is BACK!!! And, it needs your help to make sure our best candidates have the support they need to win in November as we continue to build a better progressive vision for Nebraska's future. Please contribute what you can in money and in your time. As a member of the Legislature's Appropriations Committee, Lincoln State Senator Danielle Conrad has been an abs...
New Nebraska Network - Aug 19 - 2 clicks
