If you’ve never been inside a prison, your impression of it probably comes from sensationalized Hollywood fare. Describing all the things wrong about these depictions would take another whole post. Suffice it to say, one of the most important things for the men and women overcrowded inside (so crowded the ACLU has sued the state) […]
Author: Julia Schleck
Brewer’s Latest Bill to Kill Clean Wind Energy This Thursday, January 31, the Committee on Government, Military, and Veterans Affairs will hear testimony on LB 373, Senator Tom Brewer’s latest effort to kill the development of clean wind energy in Nebraska. Why is Brewer so hostile to wind energy? We refer you back to our […]
You already knew Nebraska was unique, but did you know that we’re the only state in the union that derives all of its electricity from publicly owned utilities? That sounds boring, but actually it’s pretty awesome. In other states, private companies own all or part of the electrical grid and the plants which generate that […]
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These Children are Not Our Enemies
If the image of toddlers being ripped from their parents’ arms and kept in cages does not convince us that refugees, whether political or economic, are human beings and not criminals to be further brutalized by armed military enforcement, what will? People who try to immigrate to the US by physically arriving at our borders […]
State Senator Erdman’s latest attack on UNL in his “Straight Talk” column demonstrates once again that the Senator should not be spending his time attacking the state’s teachers but instead needs to be sent back to school. Much of his criticism seems to be based upon his confusion over two words—censor and censure—that the Senator […]
