Democrats Festersen and Gray will lead Omaha City Council
Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog
OMAHA—It’s a secret ballot so we may never know who voted for whom Monday night.
But know this: The Omaha City Council, comprised of four Democrats and three Republicans, has put two Democrats in charge of the council, both by votes of 4-3.
Pete Festersen—who is already being talked up as a possible [...]
Analysis: Mayor Stothert’s honeymoon begins
Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog
OMAHA—The party’s over, the work begins.
Mayor Jean Stothert starts her first full day in office staring at two budgets that are millions in the red.
The 2013 budget is running $13.5 million short, the 2014 budget is nearly $17 million in the hole.
Stothert—the city’s first woman mayor and first Republican elected since [...]
Tea partiers to Omaha’s new GOP mayor: Make bold budget cuts, big changes
Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog
OMAHA—Ads on fire hydrants, firefighters working longer shifts, paperwork only in English, and no more city tax money for the homeless, the food bank, the zoo, community centers, anti-truancy programs and the holiday lights celebration.
Those are just a handful of changes an anti-tax and spend Tea Party group wants to see [...]
OPPD disputes ‘bad for your health’ charges
Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog
OMAHA—As if the two year old shutdown of its nuclear plant isn’t enough to keep OPPD on its heels, it is now fighting charges that one of its non-nuclear plants should come with a surgeon general’s warning.
The public utility’s critics spout figures from the “Clean Air Task Force” which claim that [...]
Exclusive: Ashford ‘inclined’ to run for US Senate as a Democrat
Joe Jordan | Nebraska Watchdog
Top Nebraska Democrats apparently don’t know it but they are a step closer to a 2014 U.S. Senate candidate than they were just a few days ago.
State Sen. Brad Ashford of Omaha tells Nebraska Watchdog he’s “inclined” to run for the Senate and would “most likely” run as a Democrat, the [...]
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