Opinion

As we enter the fourth week of the Nebraska Legislature, there were 225 bills introduced, with last Wednesday being the deadline for proposing new legislation. This session there was a grand total of 698 Legislative bills (LB’s) introduced as well as 11 Legislative Resolutions with Constitut…

Greetings from the Nebraska Legislature, I hope everyone in the district was safe and warm when winter storm Finn paid a visit to our side of the state last week. The inclement weather impacted the state legislature as it was decided that last Friday would be a check-in day. Meaning a legisl…

Greetings from the Nebraska Legislature, I hope everyone in the district was safe and warm when winter storm Finn paid a visit to our side of the state last week. The inclement weather impacted the state legislature as it was decided that last Friday would be a check-in day. Meaning a legisl…

When COVID-19 hit, it made sense and it was necessary, to identify a way to feed kids in need that didn’t require person-to-person interaction. The federally funded Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) was born from that era. It has now morphed into the Summer EBT program – one that…

Greetings again from the Nebraska Legislature. The Session is quickly picking up pace, not only with the onset of potential rule changes, but also with the election of Senator Aguilar as the Chairman of the Executive Board. At the time of publishing, we will be debating rule changes, there w…