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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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 ...
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" 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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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...
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