The state public health department is being overtaken for political reasons in yet another effort by the governor to attack family planning and public health in general. And in true NEGOP fashion, this clumsy takeover is being attempted with poor grammar, bad spelling, and plain old nonsensical ramblings.. A global pandemic placed public health in […]
Month: August 2020
Hello, My name is Patricia Wonch Hill and I want to thank the Capitol Commission in advance for hearing my public comments today. I am here today because I am looking for clarification and for an update from this commission to the use and rules of the public spaces on the capitol grounds. The Nebraska […]
E24 – This week we bring on our friend Meg. She works at planned parenthood, sits on several important boards and commissions, and wakes up every day to fight for justice and equality in healthcare. We talk about her path in politics and how YOU can ensure abortion access continues in Nebraska (spoiler – it’s […]
Ernie Chambers – Black
I tell them there are only two labels I accept: my name, which my mother gave me, and black. Black is a term that carries with it connotations: the lynchings, the bombings, the burnings, the castrations, the raping of our women and our children. -Ernest William Chambers There’s a tradition in the Nebraska legislature for […]
Listen Here! E23 – This is gonna be a busy week for everyone on the left as we work our butts off to stop the governor from his life’s work of killing us all and doing nothing to help renters, the sick, and address the upcoming economic crash. The leadership in this state are trying […]
Editors’ Note: A previous version of this story incorrectly claimed that former Lancaster County Treasurer Andy Stebbing was present at this event. However, Stebbing wrote to us and explained that he did not attend, so we have removed that portion. We also described Stebbing as having been charged with three felonies. This is accurate, but […]
Can we please declare Nebraska’s official state animal the white wiener? Right now it’s the white-tailed deer, and you did not know that, but you do know that the entire damn state worships the phallus of the white man, so let’s just make it official. A simple blog entry could not begin to detail the […]
Do you love your teachers, food service workers, custodians, specialists, and other school staff? It’s time to take action to protect them. Lincoln Public Schools has produced a COVID plan that its staff are literally unable to execute when school begins on August 12. Their plan is only reasonable if our community transmission rate is […]
E22- The Legislature’s waning days
E22 – The legislature has only a handful of days left and we review how they’ve been spending their time. A lot of time has been lost on items that are not related to our current pandemic state, and things that would have helped have been passed by. We also welcome another Seeing Red contributor, […]
I arrived at the protest around 8pm central. we started at the corner by modern love and marched peacefully through the old market. cops were around telling us it was an unlawful assembly but keeping a distance and managing traffic as they should. we had nearly made it back to midtown where we were set […]