Before the Thanksgiving holiday, Bold Nebraska, Nebraska Wildlife Federation, Nebraska Sierra Club along with Nebraska landowners and citizens invited Plains Justice to report on TransCanada’s inadequate emergency response plan for the Keystone I pipeline.  We also took a copy of the report to Gov. Heineman and Attn. Gen. Bruning to encourage them to act on […]

We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are practicing safety this Black Friday (Malinda’s chosen to hunker down rather than brave the savage consumer waters). Speaking of savage consumers, Sarah Palin will be in Norfolk to sign copies of her new book America, By Heart tomorrow.  Here’s your Roundup: Ad of the Season: GM’s […]

Political junkies are getting their fix with turkey (and tofurkey if you are our News Director) today. But that doesn’t stop any of us from also looking at our favorite political blogs, Facebook and Twitter.  Here is a round-up of some great holiday reading and viewing.  If politics happens to come up at the dinner […]

While this is a week of turkey, allow me just a few minutes to draw your attention to duck.  Lame duck, that is.  While the new kids on the block have already arrived at Capitol Hill for their orientation, the 111th Congress has some unfinished business to take care of before saying “adios” in December. […]

Malinda is turning cartwheels and ingesting lots of coffee after seeing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 at midnight last night.  We won’t spoil anything, but she predicts most Potter fans won’t be disappointed.  In more sobering news, it’s the last day of the mayoral recall drive in Omaha.  Petitioners must turn in […]

Chairman of the Nebraska Republican Party Mark Fahleson is a real piece of work.  Once again, Fahleson is sticking the party’s nose (or trunk as it were) where it doesn’t belong: local, non-partisan races. Fahleson’s already been rebuked by the Hastings Tribune for interfering in the local school board race — the NE GOP was […]

This week’s wimp won’t be a problem much longer in our state government because he didn’t run for re-election this year.  However, we could not let his wimpy behavior pass unnoticed and undocumented. State Treasurer Shane Osborn has disregarded the privacy of university students and the value of taxpayer dollars. Osborn was recently featured in […]

As the multi-billion dollar anti-aging market indicates, Americans are forever seeking the mythical Fountain of Youth, which supposedly grants eternal youth to all who a) find it and b) drink its water.  However, in today’s economic climate, trading in a few laugh lines for youth might be a terrible choice.  Jobs are scarce, college is […]

Plenty of news stories, random thoughts, ideas, etc. cross our emails and twitter accounts over the weekend, so we thought we would throw a few of these ramblings into a post.  Feel free to debate them, offer your ideas or just tell us something is simply not true. A look ahead: Nelson Goes GOP? Bruning’s […]

The Huskers take on the Jayhawks this weekend at Memorial Stadium, so we’ll be taking a break from politics to enjoy a less cutthroat past time.  We’ve worked up some Turner Gill talking points for those in the office who are a little less football-savvy and rustled up some Big Red blankets because we heard […]