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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, April 9, 2017
Must be April Three bills intended to restructure Nebraska's tax code have caused quite the hubbub. Without going into detail (you are welcome), the principle tax bill is LB 461. The bill would cut individual and corporate tax rates, value agriculture land on income...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, April 1, 2017
Kumbaya Jupiter aligned with Mars following the Legislature’s four-day recess. With committee hearings in the rearview mirror, the agenda moved to all-day floor debate. And just when no-one was looking, a 49-senator GROUP HUG broke out (followed by the checking of...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, March 26, 2017
Cabaret Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome, im cabaret, au cabaret, to cabaret! As a stagehand prepares to ring down the curtain on Act II of our little legislative melodrama, our attention turns to the box office. Money money money money money money. Isn’t it always about...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, March 19, 2017
Oops! Since 1988, Nebraska law (§60-6 279 for you wonks) requires motorcycle riders in Nebraska to wear helmets. Annually, anti-mandatory helmet Believers (those with and those without scars) find a senator to carry a bill that would eliminate mandatory brain buckets....
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, March 12, 2017
Where's Ernie Live? All week was Groundhog Day (without Bill Murray and I Got You Babe). Each day began with a prayer; then a morning filibuster; then lunch; then afternoon committee hearings; then leave; then repeat. Tedious? While this schedule appears tedious to...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, March 5, 2017
License Plates Nebraska's statehood sesquicentennial was March 1. That's 150 years for those of you in Council Bluffs. Some of us are old enough to remember Nebraska's statehood centennial. Former Secretary of State and Nebraska treasure, Allen Beermann, is old enough...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, February 26, 2017
Mr. Dynamite The Appropriations Committee is the James Brown of the Legislature. Like James, this committee is the "hardest working" of 'em all.Indeed, the nine members of the committee work so hard, they don't have time to explain why they work so hard. Last week,...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, February 19, 2017
Timeout After 31 acrimonious eye poking days of debate on the floor of the Legislature, Coach (Speaker) Scheer, called a timeout. Infractions have escalated since Day 1 when Team Majority scored on the old Student Body Right and captured nearly every leadership...
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, February 12, 2017
Making Soup Lawmaking is not supposed to be easy. Love the analogy about making soup. This 104th Legislature, 1st Session is contentious and far from easy. Much like our nation's capitol. The Right holds the majority, the Left is in the minority, and a few senators...
Nebraska Agri-Business Association Endorses Sonny Perdue to be Secretary of Agriculture
The Nebraska Agri-Business Association joined a host of other farm and agri-business related associations and companies in supporting Sonny Perdue for Secretary of Agriculture. Click here to read the letter.