Nebraska

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Hand in Hand

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.

Will State Board Of Education Send Back $423 Million In Federal Funding?

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

Invest In A New Nebraska: Help Meister & Boyle Stand Up To Heineman's Bullying

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

Buy Local Means More Than Food

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

Heineman Should Listen To Own Experts On Costs Of Uncompensated Care

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

Dave Heineman Strong-Arming Educators To Repeal Health Care Reform

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

Tom White for Congress Unveils First TV Ad

In an email to supporters today, Tom White's campaign for Congress unveiled its first TV ad. The 30-second bio spot highlights Tom's record of independence and fiscal responsibility. The ad begins with Tom speaking directly to voters about the irresponsible debt that both parties in Washington have created. It introduces Tom as someone who worked his way through school d...
New Nebraska Network - Thu 9:08 p.m. - 4 clicks

Should Lee Terry Be Thanked For $15.5 TRILLION In Deficit Spending?

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

The Scale of Our Daily Lives

By Aubrey Streit Krug (Editor's Note: We'd like to thank Aubrey for her work with us this summer! Her contributions to our blog have been much appreciated.) The sheer size of the crises that we face can be overwhelming. In addition to the earthquake in Haiti, floods in Pakistan and the BP oil spill, we have chronic environmental problems like the dead zone growing in the Gulf of Mexico, to...
Blog for Rural America - Aug 25 - 2 clicks

Lee Terry Doubled The National Debt Before Obama Even Took Office

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

Mike Johanns Vs. Barack Obama On Small Business Job Creation

On July 31st, Sen. Mike Johanns delivered the Weekly Republican Address , using it as an opportunity to attack President Barack Obama for policies that hurt small business job creation and economic growth. That same day, President Obama used his Weekly Address to challenge the Republican Party's "do-nothing policies and partisan maneuvering," especially their obstruction of the Small Bus...
New Nebraska Network - Aug 24

Jeff Fortenberry Continues To Echo Lee Terry's Unemployment Benefit Hypocrisy

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

How to Stimulate GOP Lawyers through Immigration Reform

DailyKos (Nebraska) - Aug 22 - 3 clicks

Mike Meister Must Show Nebraskans What Real Leadership Looks Like

" 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

Why Net Neutrality Matters to Nebraska

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

Invest In A New Nebraska: Danielle Conrad For Legislature

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

Only Tom White Can Be Trusted To Protect Social Security

New Nebraska Network - Aug 17

Should Nebraska Democrats Caucus Again In 2012?

New Nebraska Network - Aug 13

Passing The Torch? It's Time For A Bold Nebraska!

New Nebraska Network - Aug 11

The Other Side of Reform

By John Crabtree I'm fortunate to live in a small, rural community with adequate access to health care providers. But research demonstrates that if the health care reform bill had not passed, one in three rural Americans living in communities with fewer than 2,500 people would have been uninsured by 2019. Affordable health insurance coverage is not the only challenge facing rural communi...
Blog for Rural America - Aug 10

Military Veterans Are a Millstone Around the Taxpayer's Neck

New Nebraska Network - Aug 6 - 6 clicks

Co-sponsor My Plan To Reform Washington

New Nebraska Network - Aug 4

NE-02: Co-sponsor my plan to reform Washington

DailyKos (Nebraska) - Aug 4

Ben Nelson Blames Us For His Opposing Elena Kagan

New Nebraska Network - Aug 3 - 3 clicks

Mike Meister, and the Importance of Opposition

New Nebraska Network - Jul 31 - 2 clicks

Virtual Farmers Markets?

By Steph Larsen (Note: A similar post first appeared on Grist.org ) The trend towards local food can be a great opportunity for farmers - both new and experienced - to rediscover growing food that people eat. Farmers gain the largest share of the food dollar this way, but it also forces them to be marketers -- something they may not have the skills, let alone the time, to be successfu...
Blog for Rural America - Jul 30

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