Troubled Start at NIC

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January, 2015 Lincoln -- The Nebraska Innovation Campus, a public-private partnership endeavor on the old State Fairgrounds focusing on f...

Missed Opportunity on P Street

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January, 2015 Lincoln -- We tried out Lincoln's newly redesigned P Street strip for our New Year's Eve celebration. It was fun; w...

Low Point in the American Experiment

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December, 2014 Washington -- The American Experiment in government has always had its highs and lows. While one can hope and believe that...

Cromnibus Hypocrisy

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December, 2014 Washington -- Congress has passed the Cromnibus (The Continuing Resolution plus Omnibus appropriations act), to much disdai...

Germany Struggles with Its History

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November, 2014 Berlin -- Germany still struggles with its history, and not just the Nazizeit . The state of Thüringen, after recent el...

Upcoming 25th Anniversary

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November, 2014 Berlin -- A week from today will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. I remember being presen...

Glad to be Away

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November, 2014 Berlin -- For me it's a good time to be in Berlin on this November 1, 2014, as I have successfully avoided Halloween h...

Undermining Pell, Redux

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September, 2014 Washington -- The New America Foundation has published a second round of analysis of how tuition and financial aid policie...

Discovering Golden Treasure

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September, 2014 Lincoln -- The goldenrod on our prairie northwest of Lincoln has been in full flower this month. Bright orange Monarch bu...

Nebraska's Good Time Fiasco

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September, 2014 Lincoln -- Yesterday I watched, via the Internet, the Nebraska Legislature's entire (morning, afternoon, and evening) ...