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20080403

John McCain - Chuck Hagel - Military - Money - Account - Law - Politics - Virginia - Nebraska - US - Iraq - Op-Ed - 2008 Election - "McCain Is AWOL On New GI Bill." ... "In November 2007, Sens. [Virginia Democratic Senator] Jim Webb and [Nebraska Republican Senator] Chuck Hagel penned an op-ed in the New York Times advocating a reformed G.I. Bill that would provide Iraq war veterans with greater educational opportunities." ... "The idea, which was first introduced in January 2007, was at once ambitious and benign. Adjust the current landmark law -- which requires members of the armed services to pay $1,200 in order to participate -- to better account for spikes in tuition and living expenses. Not only would there be a greater incentive for those considering enlistment, but the American economy would be bolstered by an influx of educated veterans." ... ""We must put together the right formula that will demonstrate our respect for those who have stepped forward to serve in these difficult times," wrote Webb and Hagel. "First-class service to country deserves first-class appreciation."" ... "Flash-forward several months and Webb and Hagel's vision (after months of consideration) is on the cusp of codification. The 21st Century G.I. Bill may be included in the language of the next Iraq war supplemental. And while, if considered separately, it could require 60 votes for passage, more than 50 Senators -- including many Republicans -- have already signed on as co-sponsors." ... "And yet, surprisingly, one of those Senators who has not yet offered his support is [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain." -By Sam Stein -HuffingtonPost.com

20080210

Barack Obama - Hillary Clinton - John McCain - Mike Huckabee - Washington - Nebraska - Louisiana - Illinois - New York - Kansas - 2008 Election - "Obama wins big in Wash., Nebraska, La." ... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and Illinois Senator] Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday, boosting his slim delegate lead over [2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate and New York Senator] Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination." ... "The Illinois senator also won caucuses in the Virgin Islands, completing his best night of the campaign." ... "The Democratic race moved into a new, post-Super Tuesday phase as [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate John] McCain flunked his first ballot test since becoming the Republican nominee-in-waiting. He lost the Kansas caucuses to [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Mike Huckabee, gaining less than 24 percent of the vote." ... "Huckabee also was named by NBC News as the apparent winner of an extremely close Louisiana primary race." ... "His Kansas defeat aside, McCain also suffered a symbolic defeat when Romney edged him out in a straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting across town from the White House." (1, 2) -AP -MSNBC

20080208

Nebraska - Law - Politics - "Nebraska Supreme Court Outlaws Electric Chair." ... "The electric chair is cruel and unusual punishment, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday, effectively suspending executions in the only state that made sole use of the practice, once the dominant form of execution in the United States." ... "The court, in a 6-to-1 decision, ruled that electrocution, the only method of execution used in the state, violates the state constitution. The evidence shows that electrocution inflicts intense pain and agonizing suffering, Justice William Connolly wrote for the majority." -By Adam Liptak -NYTimes
Nebraska - Prisoners - Executions - Torture - Politics - Human - Brain - Medical - Science - "Nebraska Court Bans Executions Using Electric Chair (Update2)." ... "The Nebraska Supreme Court banned the use of the electric chair for executions, finding the practice violates the state constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment." ... "``We recognize the temptation to make the prisoner suffer, just as the prisoner made an innocent victim suffer,'' Justice William Connolly wrote today in a 6-to-1 decision. ``But it is the hallmark of a civilized society that we punish cruelty without practicing it.''" ... "Nebraska [Republican] Governor Dave Heineman said in a statement that he's ``appalled'' by the decision." ... ""[Justice William Connolly:] ``Contrary to the state's argument, there is abundant evidence that prisoners sometimes will retain enough brain functioning to consciously suffer the torture high-voltage electric current inflicts on a human body,'' Connolly wrote.'" -By Thom Weidlich -Bloomberg

20080108

Agriculture - Plant - Energy - Economy - Food - Nebraska - N Dakota - S Dakota - "Grass Makes Better Ethanol than Corn Does: Midwestern farms prove switchgrass could be the right crop for producing ethanol to replace gasoline." ... "Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas [North and South] brought the U.S. [United States] closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with switchgrass—a native North American perennial grass (Panicum virgatum) that often grows on the borders of cropland naturally—and proving that it can deliver more than five times more energy than it takes to grow it." ... "Working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the farmers tracked the seed used to establish the plant, fertilizer used to boost its growth, fuel used to farm it, overall rainfall and the amount of grass ultimately harvested for five years on fields ranging from seven to 23 acres in size (three to nine hectares)." ... "Once established, the fields yielded from 5.2 to 11.1 metric tons of grass bales per hectare, depending on rainfall, says USDA plant scientist Ken Vogel. "It fluctuates with the timing of the precipitation,'' he says. "Switchgrass needs most of its moisture in spring and midsummer. If you get fall rains, it's not going to do that year's crops much good."" ... "But yields from a grass that only needs to be planted once would deliver an average of 13.1 megajoules of energy as ethanol for every megajoule of petroleum consumed—in the form of nitrogen fertilizers or diesel for tractors—growing them. "It's a prediction because right now there are no biorefineries built that handle cellulosic material" like that which switchgrass provides, Vogel notes. "We're pretty confident the ethanol yield is pretty close." This means that switchgrass ethanol delivers 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, compared with just roughly 25 percent more energy returned by corn-based ethanol according to the most optimistic studies." -By David Biello -SciAm

20071120

Voting Machines - San Francisco - California - Nebraska - Politics - "California suing Nebraska voting machine maker for $15 million." ... "California Secretary of State Debra Bowen sued a Nebraska voting machine company on Monday, seeking fines and reimbursements of nearly $15 million from the firm for allegedly selling nearly 1,000 uncertified machines to San Francisco and four other counties." ... "San Francisco's 558 AutoMARK ballot-marking devices were among 972 of the machines that Election Systems & Software sold in California last year without putting them through the state testing process." ... ""ES&S ignored the law over and over and over again, and it got caught," Bowen said in a statement after filing suit against the company. "I am not going to stand on the sidelines and watch a voting system vendor come into the state, ignore the laws and make millions of dollars from California's taxpayers in the process."" -By John Wildermuth -SFGate.com

20071109

Michael Bernard Mukasey - Alberto R Gonzales - Water - Torture - Politicians - Human Rights - Law - Conn - Calif - New York - Ind - Del - La - Neb - "Senate Confirms Mukasey By 53-40: Historically Low Tally for New Attorney General." ... "The final tally gave [Republican President Bush's Attorney General nominee Michael Bernard] Mukasey the lowest number of yes votes for any attorney general since 1952, just weeks after lawmakers of both parties had predicted his easy confirmation. Mukasey takes the place of Alberto R. Gonzales, who left under a cloud of scandal in September." ... "He avoided defeat only because a half-dozen Democrats voted in favor of the appointment along with Republicans and Democrat-turned-independent Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn. [Connecticut])." ... "Mukasey, 66, had outraged many lawmakers and human rights groups by repeatedly refusing to classify waterboarding, a simulated-drowning technique, as torture. His few Democratic supporters said last night that, although they are troubled by his equivocal views on waterboarding, they believe Mukasey represents the best possibility for change at the troubled Justice Department. "This is the only chance we have," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif. [California])." ... "The other Democrats in favor of the confirmation were Sens. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y. [New York]), Evan Bayh (Ind. [Indiana]), Thomas R. Carper (Del. [Delaware]), Mary Landrieu (La. [Louisiana]) and Ben Nelson (Neb.)." ... "Mukasey garnered the lowest number of yes votes among confirmed attorneys general since James P. McGranery, who was approved by a vote of 52 to 18 in 1952 during the [Democratic President Harry] Truman administration. The only recent competitor is [Republican President Bush's nominee] John D. Ashcroft, who attracted 58 yes votes from the GOP-controlled Senate in 2001." (1, 2) -By Dan Eggen Paul Kane with contributions by Madonna Lebling -WashingtonPost

20070911

US - Iraq - Global - Military - Del - Ind - Neb - 2008 Election - "Iraq Progress Hearing Quotes." ... "Quotes from Tuesday's Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committee hearings on progress in Iraq featuring testimony from Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker." ... ""The fact of the matter is that American lives remain in jeopardy and, as I said, if every single jihadi in the world was killed tomorrow, we'd still have a major, major war on our hands." - [Delaware Democratic Senator and 2008 election Presidential Candidate] Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del." ... ""At this stage of the conflict, with our military strained by Iraq deployments, our global advantages being diminished by the weight of our burden in Iraq, it is not enough for the [Republican President Bush] administration to counsel patience until the next milestone or the next report. We need to see a strategy for how our troops and other resources in Iraq might be employed to fundamentally change the equation." - [Indiana Republican Senator] Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind." ... ""The other part of this is that it seems to me logical that when you flood a zone with more troops, when you put more troops in Baghdad or Anbar province, you're going to see some consequence to that, you're going to see some result. So I don't think that's particularly news, that where we have inserted more American troops, costing more American lives, we've seen some differences." - [Nebraska Republican Senator] Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb." ... ""It's not your fault, General. It's not Ambassador Crocker's fault. It's this [Republican President Bush] administration's fault." - Hagel." -AP via -Forbes

20070908

Chuck Hagel - US - Iraq - Military - History - Nebraska - Virginia - 2008 Election - "Senator Hagel retiring, not running for president." ... "[Republican Senator] Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a harsh critic of the Iraq war, plans to retire and will not seek the Republican [2008 election] presidential nomination next year, a source said on Saturday." ... "Last week, Republican U.S. [Republican Senator] Sen. John Warner of Virginia said he would not run for re-election [in 2008]." ... "Hagel, who earned two Purple Hearts as a combat soldier during the Vietnam War, has been a harsh critic of the [Republican President] Bush administration's Iraq strategy. In January, he denounced President George W. Bush's plan for a U.S. troop buildup in Iraq as "the worst foreign policy blunder since Vietnam -- if it's carried out."" ... "Hagel has been among a handful of Senate Republicans supporting legislation that would set an April 30, 2008, deadline for U.S. troops in Iraq to begin withdrawing." (1, 2) -Reuters

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20070621

John G Roberts - Samuel A Alito - Politics - History - Abortion - Nebraska - "Precedents Begin to Fall for Roberts Court." ... "No Supreme Court nominee could be confirmed these days without paying homage to the judicial doctrine of “stare decisis,” Latin for “to stand by things decided.” Yet experienced listeners have learned to take these professions of devotion to precedent “cum grano salis,” Latin for “with a grain of salt.”" ... "Both Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. assured their Senate questioners at their confirmation hearings that they, too, respected precedent. So why were they on the majority side of a 5-to-4 decision last week declaring that a 45-year-old doctrine excusing people whose “unique circumstances” prevented them from meeting court filing deadlines was now “illegitimate”?" ... "It was the second time the Roberts court had overturned a precedent, and the first in a decision with a divided vote. It surely will not be the last." ... "So the question is not whether the Roberts court will overturn more precedents, but how often, by what standard and in what terms." ... "Sometimes the court overrules cases without actually saying so. Some argue that this is what happened in April, when a 5-to-4 majority upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act without making much effort to reconcile that ruling with a decision in 2000 that found a nearly identical Nebraska law unconstitutional." -By Linda Greenhouse -NYTimes

20060820

Nebraska - Chuck Hagel - 2006 Election - "Sen. Hagel says GOP has lost its way." ... "Republicans have lost their way when it comes to many core GOP principles and may be in jeopardy heading into the fall elections, [Nebraska Republican Senator] Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. says. Hagel, a possible presidential candidate in 2008, said Sunday that the GOP today is very different party from the one when he first voted Republican." ... ""First time I voted was in 1968 on top of a tank in the Mekong Delta," said Hagel, a Vietnam veteran. "I voted a straight Republican ticket. The reason I did is because I believe in the Republican philosophy of governance. It's not what it used to be. I don't think it's the same today."" ... "Hagel asked: "Where is the fiscal responsibility of the party I joined in '68? Where is the international engagement of the party I joined - fair, free trade, individual responsibility, not building a bigger government, but building a smaller government?"" ... "His frustration does not lead him to think Democrats offer a better alternative. But Hagel wants to see the GOP return to its basic beliefs." ... ""I think we've lost our way," Hagel said. "And I think the Republicans are going to be in some jeopardy for that and will be held accountable."" -By Will Lester -AP via -MercuryNews

20060731

US - Israel - Lebanon - Iran - Syria - Religion - Military - Chuck Hagel - Nebraska - "Key Republican breaks with Bush on Mideast: Nebraska's Sen. Hagel calls for immediate cease-fire." ... "Urging President Bush to turn all U.S. efforts toward "ending this madness," a leading Republican senator Monday broke with the Bush administration and called for an immediate cease-fire in the Mideast." ... ""The sickening slaughter on both sides must end and it must end now," Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel said. "President Bush must call for an immediate cease-fire. This madness must stop."" ... "The Bush administration has refused to call for Israel to halt its attacks on southern Lebanon, joining Israel in insisting that Hezbollah fighters must be pushed back from the Israeli-Lebanese border." ... "President Bush Monday in a speech in Miami Beach, Florida, reiterated his call for a cease-fire in the Mideast only if it brought a "long-lasting peace" that addressed Iran and Syria's support for Hezbollah, the Islamic militia that Israel is targeting. (Full story)" ... "Hagel said that refusal threatens to isolate the United States and Israel and harm chances of achieving a long-term peace in the region." -CNN

20060601

Government - Money - Politics - New York - Nebraska - KY - "Security Cuts for New York and Washington." ... "After vowing to steer a greater share of antiterrorism money to the highest-risk communities, Department of Homeland Security officials on Wednesday announced 2006 grants that slashed money for New York and Washington 40 percent, while other cities including Omaha [Nebraska] and Louisville, Ky., got a surge of new dollars." ... "The release of the 2006 urban area grants, which total $711 million, was immediately condemned by leaders in Washington [DC] and New York." ... ""When you stop a terrorist, they have a map of New York City in their pocket," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York said. "They don't have a map of any of the other 46 or 45 places."" ... "In Washington, Mayor Anthony Williams said: "It was very shortsighted for the federal government to gut our homeland security funding program, even more so because so many dollars continue to be spent in rural areas that are far less likely to emerge as targets."" -By Eric Lipton with contributions by Diane Cardwell -NYTimes

20060410

US Immigration - Law - Politics - Food - Workers - Nebr. - NC - "Immigration rallies begin to take toll on US workplace." ... "Amid calls for a nationwide work stoppage and economic boycott, throngs of immigration-reform advocates rallied across the U.S. again Monday." ... "Several meatpacking plants either temporarily shut down or operated on a reduced schedule because of a lack of production-line workers, many of whom are immigrants." ... "Industry giant Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN) said some of its facilities, including a plant in Madison, Neb., will be closed, partly because of the planned rallies and partly because of poor livestock market conditions." ... "Futures traders and other meat-industry sources reported that at least two Swift & Co. beef plants were operating at reduced speeds Monday, apparently because of employee shortages. Also, a large Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD) pork plant in North Carolina [NC] wasn't operating, industry sources said." ... "The full brunt of immigrants' economic power could be felt May 1. That's when some advocate groups are calling for a national "Day Without an Immigrant" that could involve millions of workers taking the day off to show solidarity behind the reform movement." -By Richard Gibson -MarketWatch

20060215

US - Iraq - Iran - Military - Nebraska - "Republicans criticize Rice over Bush Mideast policy." ... "Republican senators criticized the Bush administration Wednesday over its policies in Iraq, Iran and the Palestinian territories, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's first testimony on Capitol Hill in months exposed her to a tough grilling from some members of her own party." ... ""I don't see, Madame Secretary, how things are getting better. I think things are getting worse. I think they're getting worse in Iraq. I think they're getting worse in Iran," Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., told Rice as she appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." -AP via -USATODAY

20051208

Nebraska - Police - "Biker cleared after 128mph chase: A US motorcyclist who zoomed through Nebraska at over 128mph (205kph) has been cleared of reckless driving." ... "Judge John Steinheider reluctantly ruled that speed alone was not enough to prove reckless driving under Nebraska law." ... "Biker Jacob Carman accelerated away from a traffic policeman after he was clocked at 82mph (131km/h)." ... "State prosecutors admitted that they could have won a conviction for speeding, but had opted to pursue a charge of reckless driving." -BBC /News

20050821

- - - Nebraska - - "Hagel: Iraq war has destabilized Mideast, resembles Vietnam." ... "A leading Republican senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran said Sunday the Iraq war has destabilized the Mideast and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict a generation ago." ... "Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, who received two Purple Hearts and other military honors for his service in Vietnam, reiterated his position that the United States needs to develop a strategy to leave Iraq." ... "Hagel scoffed at the idea that U.S. troops could be in Iraq four years from now at levels above 100,000, a contingency for which the Pentagon is preparing." -AP via -CNN

20050513

Nebraska - Gay - - "Gay marriage ban in Nebraska voided." ... "A federal judge Thursday struck down Nebraska's ban on gay marriage." ... "U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon ruled that the measure interferes not only with the rights of gay couples but also with those of foster parents, adopted children and people in other arrangements." ... "Bataillon said the ban “imposes significant burdens on both the expressive and intimate associational rights” of gays “and creates a significant barrier to the plaintiffs' right to petition or to participate in the political process.”" -KansasCity.com
- Nebraska - Gay - "Nebraska Judge Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage." ... "A federal judge in Nebraska has struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage. He ruled that the amendment to the state constitution -- which defined marriage as between a man and a woman -- stripped same-sex couples of the rights that married couples possess, thus treating them unequally." -By Barbara Bradley Hagerty -NPR /News

20050512

Nebraska - Gay - - "Judge strikes down Nebraska gay marriage ban: Ruling says measure interferes with rights of gays, others." ... "In the first time that a federal judge has struck down a state constitutional provision limiting marriage to heterosexual couples, U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon on Thursday declared void a provision of the Nebraska constitution that defined marriage as only between a man and a woman and that banned same-sex civil unions, domestic partnerships and other similar relationships." ... "Bataillon declared in his ruling that under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Nebraska cannot ban same-sex marriages and civil unions." ... "The ruling may call into question similar provisions in other states' constitutions." (1, 2) -By Tom Curry -MSNBC

20050503

Mother's-Day - Homes - Florida - Georgia - Austin - TX - IL - Des-Moines - IA - Connecticut - Oklahoma - WA - Nebraska - Phoenix - AZ - Virginia - CA - Utah - North Carolina - "Women helping build homes." ... "Women Build is a partnership of Habitat for Humanity and the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores. It is an annual event that gives women a chance to help needy families. Female crews have built 650 Habitat houses in the United States." ... "[Along with Pensacola, Florida] Other cities with Mother's Day Women Build projects are Atlanta [Georgia]; Austin, Texas; Chicago [Illinois]; Des Moines, Iowa; Hartford, Conn. [Connecticut]; Oklahoma City [Oklahoma]; Olympia, Wash. [Washington]; Omaha, Neb. [Nebraska]; Phoenix [Arizona]; Richmond, Va [Virginia].; San Francisco [California]; Salt Lake City [Utah]; Tacoma, Wash. [Washington]; and Winston-Salem, N.C. [North Carolina]" -By Bill Kaczor -APvia -NJ.com

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20050419

- Nebraska - "Ameritrade Loses 200,000 Client Files: Ameritrade Loses Backup Computer Tape Containing Personal Files of 200,000 Current, Former Customers." ... "Leading online discount broker Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Tuesday it has informed about 200,000 current and former customers that a backup computer tape containing their personal information has been lost." ... "The [Nebraska] Omaha-based company mailed the notices to its clients last week, spokeswoman Donna Kush said." -By Emily Fredrix -AP via -ABCNEWS.com

20031107

- - - "Federal judges in New York, San Francisco halt abortion ban." ... "With the ink barely dry on legislation banning a controversial abortion procedure, federal judges in San Francisco and New York yesterday put a halt to the measure and set the stage for the most important legal tussle over abortion rights in three decades." ... "The judges found that the congressional ban on the procedure — known medically as "intact dilation and extraction" but referred to by opponents as "partial-birth abortion" — is likely to be unconstitutional because it provides no exceptions for a woman's health, thus running afoul of a 2000 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar Nebraska statute. President Bush signed the latest ban into law Wednesday." -By Howard Mintz -Knight Ridder via -SeattleTimes.NWsource

20031105

- - - "Federal Judge Blocks New Abortion Law for Some Doctors." ... "A federal judge in Nebraska on Wednesday blocked a new anti-abortion law from being enforced against some doctors and their affiliates, minutes after it was signed by President Bush." ... "Citing constitutional concerns, U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf issued a temporary restraining order barring U.S. Attorney John Ashcroft and the Justice Department from enforcing the new law banning so-called partial birth abortions against four doctors who practice in or are affiliated with practices in more than a dozen states."-Reuters

20021125

- - "Bush hails military's private sector "outsourcing"." ... "President Bush on Monday praised an Air Force base with a history of outsourcing work to the private sector, something he wants to do with nearly half the nation's federal civilian jobs." ... "Bush saluted saluted Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, where he stopped during his zigzagging odyssey back to Washington on Sept. 11, 2001." -By Scott Lindlaw -AP via -Salon

20021114

- - - "Biotech Firm Mishandled Corn in Iowa." ... "The biotechnology company that mishandled gene-altered corn in Nebraska did the same thing in Iowa, the government disclosed yesterday." ... "The disclosure raised new questions about the conduct of ProdiGene Inc., a company in College Station, Tex., that is now under investigation for allegedly violating government permits in two states. The ProdiGene matter is proving to be a black eye for the biotech industry, which has been trying to reassure the public it can be trusted not to contaminate the food supply." -By Justin Gillis -WashingtonPost

20020902

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"The History of Labor Day. Labor Day: How it Came About; What it Means." ... "The first state bill [for a Labor Day] was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories." ... -Read more at:"The History of Labor Day." -DOL.gov

20020718

"West Nile virus found for first time in Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska _ farthest west." ... "The West Nile virus has spread to Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska -- the farthest west it has been found -- prompting officials to begin spraying creeks, ponds and anywhere there is standing water to eradicate mosquitoes that carry the deadly virus." -By Jamie Stengle -AP via -SFGate.com

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