Unlike Omaha, which apparently likes to like in its sewage, Lincolnites have long known the benefits of maintaining, improving and expanding infrastructure for the common good of the city’s citizens such as storm and sanitary sewers. We, the citizens, recognizing the importance of said same projects, approve the funding thereof the vast majority of the time, regardless of the current economic conditions.

As for Buzz’s snide little comment, your uninformed ignorance is amusing at best, but more likely indicative of your complete lack of understanding of this City’s budgetary processes and the financial catastrophe that then-Mayor Johanns left this City’s long-term budget in due to his over-zealous, too-deep property tax cuts that he tried to off set with a sales tax increase. He left a ticking timebomb for whomever was going to be mayor ten years after he quit the position mid-term to once again further his political career over the best interests of the populace that elected him, and he never foresaw that the economy that was growing while he was Mayor would ever slow, let alone collapse, and thus take sales tax revenues with it. Thus, the severe revenue shortfall of the past four years combined with the stifling non-ability for the City budget to compensate for inflationary increases for the years prior to the Republican-caused Great Recession has resulted in Lincoln’s Quality of Living rating to drop considerably – as we are forced to cut back on our once exemplary City Parks system so that they now look like unhayed fields, cut back on our City Pools that are open and their hours of operations – which also affects the most impoverished of our City’s children, the proposed closing/cutback of hours of our City Library system – again affecting disproportionately the most at-risk of our citizens, the neglecting of the maintenance of our City Street system which affects all of us and now this ideological insanity of Johanns is loosed upon the entire Nation as a US Senator.

Seems like “watching from Lincoln” has a deep hatred of Omaha. Is it that Lincoln is only the 2nd largest city in Ne.? I personally like to visit Lincoln, but as they say, I wouldn’t want to live there.