It was 1965, my mother, then a senior in high school, recalls the cold, dreary day in early January that her family drove away from their house in Odell, headed to Washington D.C.  My grandfather said,  “It could be a long ride home in two years.” My grandfather, Clair Callan, had been elected to the House […]

Several days after an oil pipeline near Kalamazoo, Michigan leaked crude oil into the Kalamazoo River, news is spreading that TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline caused a spill in South Dakota over a month ago. According to the spill report, 100 gallons of crude oil leaked near the Roswell pump station.  TransCanada spokesman Jeff Rauh explained that […]

Wimp Wednesday goes to…Governor Heineman. From the way Governor Heineman treats Fremont you’d think it was a petri dish not his wife’s hometown.  With the Fremont City Council voting to suspend implementation of the infamous immigration ordinance, the governor’s experiment of using the city as a test case for immigration legislation at the state level […]

Oil is flowing towards Lake Michigan via the Kalamazoo River this evening.  A crude oil pipeline run by Enbridge Energy Partners LP sprung a leak near a pumping station in Marshall, Michigan yesterday morning.  The pipeline has been shut down as crews scurry to clean up 19,500 barrels of crude oil (that’s 819,000 gallons).  This is […]

NPPD is holding public hearings all this week to get input about the proposed new transmisison lines that will need to be built to support the proposed TransCanda pipeline. More info on the dates and locations can be found on our Event page. We are concerned about the transmission lines for several reasons. 1) The […]

State Attorney General Jon Bruning is giving us a severe case of conservative whiplash.  The last time we did a double take this fast was when John McCain said he wasn’t a maverick.  Bruning is now backing away from LB 594 when just last week he was trumpeting the law. LB 594 requires mental health […]

Senator Ben Nelson gave a rousing speech at the Nebraska Democratic Party’s state convention this last Sunday.  Nelson encouraged Democrats to stick together so they can fight the “party of NO.”  He lauded the successes of passing the stimulus bill, health care reform, and financial reform.  His message that Democrats are investing in America was […]

As everyone gets ready for the weekend and in honor of Minority Leader John Boehner’s big beach bash last night which spurred the whole Rep. Terry drama with the lady lobbyist, we asked around for some appropriate tunage.  So here you go and enjoy the weekend. Lobbyist Loving Lee Terry’s Weekend Playlist (go buy it […]

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong:Scott Brown, Mitch McConnell, Mike Johanns, Lee Terry, Mark Fahleson We’d argue that Senator Scott Brown sticks out like a sore thumb in this mix, and it’s not just because he’s arguably the best looking of the bunch. The Nebraska […]

“Why did you get me so drunk?” Not usually the conversation one hopes to hear between a congressman and a lobbyist.  But Rep. Lee Terry certainly likes to set the bar low (do we need to repeat that the only thing he’s done in DC is renaming a post office?). Apparently the New York Post […]