Read today's news from around the state and country. Each day in the Roundup we cover politics, always with a side of bold humor. We think politics should be fun, informative and encourage us all to take action.

Citizens, landowners, ranchers, farmers, cheese makers and tankers are all coming together to honor State Senator Ken Haar for his work protecting the Ogallala Aquifer. Sen. Haar was the force behind a Special Session on the pipeline and continues to make sure the proper laws get put in place to protect our land and water.

Now it's time for the Pipeline Fighters and the Sandhills Lovers to stand with Sen. Haar.

The Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate.

Bold Nebraska's reaction to the ruling is simple:

Filing an amendment in Congress is easy. Constructing, operating, and maintaining a functioning and hazard-free pipeline is pretty damn hard (just ask Canada or the communities in the US facing the clean-up of oil spills).

Rep. Lee Terry can’t even successfully file an amendment to greenlight and rush TransCanada's Keystone XL tarsands export pipeline, yet they want all of us to trust them to make important pipeline decisions?

Read today's news from around the state and country. Each day in the Roundup we cover politics, always with a side of bold humor. We think politics should be fun, informative and encourage us all to take action.

Read today's news from around the state and country. Each day in the Roundup we cover politics, always with a side of bold humor. We think politics should be fun, informative and encourage us all to take action.

Reporters from the Toronto Star traveled the proposed TransCanada pipeline route to talk with landowners and citizens.

Watch the video from their trip, it's 13 minutes and profiles Nebraskans and our friend Paul up in North Dakota.

Each week, Bold and allied groups recap news and actions related to the proposed TransCanada Keystone XL tarsands pipeline. A new report is more cause for concern regarding inland oil spills, the President speaks out on the pipeline and Republicans continue to slow negotiations on the transportation bill with their misguided insistence that fast-tracking TransCanada's tarsands pipeline be included...those stories and more below!

Weekly Action Ideas:

Read today's news from around the state and country. Each day in the Roundup we cover politics, always with a side of bold humor. We think politics should be fun, informative and encourage us all to take action.

Update: Thanks for all the tweets during the talk. If you are new to the Bold site, here are a few links to get you going on helping us stop the TransCanada pipeline.

NEAT: New group helping put the power back in the hands of landowners when it comes to legal aspects and land easements. Landowners and citizens not in the pipeline route also encouraged to be supporters of NEAT. Most critical right now, do NOT let TransCanada or DEQ on your land.