Tomorrow’s Daily Nebraskan will include the one-day return of Neal Obermeyer in honor of a very significant moment in UNL history. Be sure to pick up a copy or visit DailyNebraskan.com.

I promise this won’t be as bad as the last time I did a one-day return in 2002 with that Ahman Green cartoon.

Today’s Journal Star includes a profile on Kyle Michaelis and his work with the New Nebraska Network.

Read it.

Call it a rationalization all you want, but why is it that when Clinton loses major ground in a state over the month leading up to the vote, but still ends up winning a state she was expected to win, is it considered a huge turnaround in the momentum? Yet if you’re Barack Obama, and you win a state you were expected to win, it’s just “Well, that’s an Obama stronghold. Of course he’s going to win.” If anything, the change in Pennsylvania showed the momentum continuing for Obama. Obama lost the vote, but Clinton lost half of her lead. Why isn’t that more obvious to people who are paid to realize this stuff?

The talking heads tonight were discussing how she can take this newfound momentum and transform that into wins in Indiana, Kentucky, Montana … but not North Carolina. North Carolina is Obama country.

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I do not understand the mentality behind “Republicans will use Reverend Wright against Obama … Republicans will use ‘bitter’ against Obama … Republicans will use Ayers against Obama …” as a pro-Clinton argument. It presupposes that there is nothing for the Republicans to use against Clinton. When was Hillary Clinton ever vetted on a national stage before? If she was already so thoroughly vetted like she and the media she is (reported as fact in an AP News story today), how was her reversal on NAFTA new to people? How was it surprising how much money the Clintons were making when that came out a few weeks ago?

Not to mention that this idea basically translates to this: We need to nominate the candidate we like the least, because that way the Republicans won’t be able to make anyone like that candidate less. If we actually like the candidate we nominate, there’s a chance the Republicans might attack them. Continue reading →

If you’re tired of just being a facebook fan of Jesus Lizard and the Omaha World Herald, now you can add nealo.com to the list of things you adore!

At this point, the nealo.com page is little more than an attempt to drive more visitors to this site. Eventually, depending on what kind of user interaction I get, it may end up developing an identity of its own. But for now, if you’re a facebook user, just help me look cool and become a fan.

Sometimes when I’m coming up with ideas, I just start writing down points and doodling, hoping that in the process, things will just magically come together and my mind will click and an idea will be born.

This sketch is clearly not one of those cases. I was struggling with the idea that the huge revenue streams that the arena will supposedly bring to Lincoln are going to be spent before it’s built. I was also playing with the imagery of the 2015 Vision group string pullers.

Nothing came of it, but just looking at this box in my collection of sketches today cracks me up, so I thought I’d share.

In a move that resembles Tom Osborne’s nationally-criticized college media blackout even more than the recent Governor’s office fiasco, Nebraska head football coach Bo Pellini has banned the DN from covering the team’s football practice sessions because of this editorial. DN sports reporter Jonathan Crowl was escorted out of today’s practice by NU Media Relations Director Keith Mann.

For another reminder of what got TO in hot water more than a decade ago, here is an Editor & Publisher article on the controversy erupting around Osborne’s decision to ban the DN from practice for coverage that he didn’t like.

Congratulations to Alyssa Schukar, named the Nebraska News Photographers Association Photographer of the Year.

You can check out Alyssa’s submission portfolio here.