The Support Our Schools campaign has claimed repeatedly that funding scholarships for Nebraska children to attend private schools to access the educational opportunities they need detracts from funding for public schools. This is absurd. Consider the following facts: Furthermore, in 2023, the legislature and the governor appropriated an additional $327 millionfor public education. This is […]

Lincoln Public Schools’ school board members are wrong to place the blame for ever-increasing school property-taxes on the Legislature or Gov. Pillen. The legislature and Gov. Pillen have crafted multiple pieces of legislation to fix Nebraska’s broken school aid formula. But the public schools, including LPS, continue to say, “No” to more state aid in […]

Responding to the two abortion-related initiatives that will be appearing on the November ballot, Abolish Abortion Nebraska has launched NoToBoth.org, urging citizens of Nebraska to vote no to both measures. The initiatives — 434 and 439 — which will be appearing as separate measures on the ballot, are much more similar than they are different. […]

Labor Day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. In recent years, in its quest to protect the dignity of work, the American labor movement has experienced what some are calling “the Great Reset,” with millions of workers frustrated that their wages have failed to keep up with inflation while corporate […]