from the Omaha Reader Dave Heineman deserves some credit for approaching the incoming stimulus funding like an adult rather than resorting to the shallow grandstanding we’ve seen from other governors like Bobby Jindal. It’s completely within a person’s rights to politically oppose something, but good for Heineman for accepting what has happened and moving forward […]
from the Omaha Reader See also Dave-ja Vu and SCHIP and Dip.
In a follow-up from the update in yesterday’s post, it turns out the Ben Nelson gang wants to cut state aid after all, only it’s to the tune of $40 billion, not $25 billion. How direct aid to states with budget problems doesn’t qualify as stimulus to these people is beyond me. Out of one […]
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from the Omaha Reader
from the Omaha Reader 1/15 UPDATE: I learned last night that The Reader decided not to run this cartoon. from The Reader‘s coverage: (story not online) now posted “As a business decision, the Omaha World-Herald does not print same-sex marriage announcements,” company spokesperson Joel Long told The Reader. He said the company’s decision is not […]
from the Omaha Reader Don Walton reported on an idea being floated around by Nebraska Republicans in his Monday column: Because Washington County already is in the 1st District and bounds Douglas County on the north, why not extend the 1st District boundaries southward and snatch Omaha’s 1st and 2nd Wards? Move north Omaha’s African-American […]
from the Omaha Reader
from the Omaha Reader
from the Omaha Reader