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Notes: Burchard Reservoir meeting
Omaha WorldHerald|Outdoors
Jan 23A public informational meeting about improvements to Burchard Reservoir will be Feb. 1 in Tecumseh at 7 p.m. at the Nemaha Natural Resources District office, 62161 U.S. Highway 136. »
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Beatrice Employees Accused of Abuse were Hired Despite Criminal Records
Nebraska Watchdog
Jan 18The five employees charged with abusing residents at Nebraska’s state home for developmentally disabled people all have criminal records, and the four who were full time employees worked an average of 15 hours of overtime per week in the three months p... »
Daniel Ellsberg: The Person of the Year is sitting in prison
Brynn Jacobs
Dec 20At Democracy Now, Daniel Ellsberg states that war crimes can be viewed in the Iraq helicopter video that was leaked to Wikileaks. No question in my mind, as I looked at that, that the specific leaked pictures in there of helicopter gunners hunting down... »
Be Fruitful and Multiply and Fill the Earth and Subdue It ...
Red State Eclectic
Dec 07“Human beings create more than they destroy.” - Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource 2 (Princeton, N.Y.: Princeton University Press, 1996), p. 580. “People have since antiquity worried about running out of natural resources–flint, game animals, what-hav... »
The Constitutionally deplorable intentions of the United States regarding Julian Assange and Wikipedia
Brynn Jacobs
Dec 05At Occasional Planet, Madonna Gauding explains that the U.S. campaign to imprison Julian Assange and put him to death, has nothing to do with national security: Unfortunately, prosecuting leakers is not really about upholding the law or maintaining nat... »
NU Domestic Partner Benefits: Trying To Keep Up With The (Immoral) Joneses
Grassroots in Nebraska
Dec 02Thanks to Nancy Carr and Reverend Shannon Chestnut for bringing this issue to my attention. I have been a little pre-Occupy-ed lately. Nebraska’s Board of Regents is apparently poised to approve a provision that would extend the University systems’ emp... »
