This is the temporary proposal favored by the Omaha City Council for redistricting to include Elkhorn. The most significant changes: Dan Welch takes over the southern half of Elkhorn; Franklin Thompson takes over the northern half; Jim Suttle’s district extends west to I-680 between Blondo and Dodge; Jim Vokal’s district moves north to include […]
Archive for February, 2007
I’ve been of the school of thought for some time now that John McCain would win the Republican nomination. That as the establishment candidate, as the most fervent supporter of Bush’s war, McCain would have the aura of inevitability to allow him to win the nomination despite his reputation as a “maverick.” With no […]
There’s not a whole lot to write about at the moment, so I thought I’d put this up today. This is what our website looked like 2 1/2 years ago:
Remember, remember the… 23rd of February. Okay, well it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. The V for Vilsack campaign is over:
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack said Friday he is dropping out of the 2008 Democratic race for president.
Vilsack’s campaign lasted 15 weeks.
“The reality is that this process has become … about […]
I promised myself I’d take a break from writing about Chuck Hagel, but this caught my eye:
Illinois Senator Barack Obama (D) leads Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel (R) by 16 percentage points in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. The Election 2008 poll, part of a series looking at all potential match-ups, shows Obama attracting […]
Breaking News:
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Elkhorn’s request that the annexation be frozen, shattering any remaining hope Elkhorn had of staving off annexation.
“I have always been confident that the City of Omaha’s annexation of Elkhorn and the additional sanitary improvement districts would succeed,” Mayor Mike Fahey said in a statement. “We will provide […]
State Senator, and friend of UNO Democrats, Gwen Howard has proposed a compromise plan on the Omaha school dispute:
The Howard plan adopts several ideas from Sen. Ron Raikes, committee chairman and author of last year’s learning community law:
- School districts would cooperate under a formal governance structure called a learning community.
- That overarching entity would […]
