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Like most good novelists, Diane Collman likes to lead her readers into her stories until they are comfortable with their surroundings and feel fairly certain they know what’s going to happen next. But what if the readers are wrong, and something entirely different happens? That is the beauty of her technique and one of the […]
This week I wanted to do something a little different. Even though this event occurred many years ago, the name and event remains the same. Also, I doubt this aspect has been discussed at any great length. This event occurred before I was born and before many today were born. It even occurred before Charles […]
Scoping meetings held during August and early September from Helena, Montana to Saint Charles, Missouri are facilitating discussions about the future of the Missouri River and restoration of its associated environs. At the meeting held at Omaha, Nebraska on August 31, officials of the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) […]
As anticipated, state legislatures across the country have been renewing and introducing new employment eligibility and compliance laws requiring the use of E-Verify. The latest bills to be introduced are from Arkansas, Nebraska, Indiana, and Wyoming. In Arkansas, State Representative Bill Sample, R-Hot Springs, introduced HB 1093 which would require state agencies to use E-Verify […]
Garb adorned with bird objects of a typical yet distinct sort was among the regalia featured by dancers at an intertribal pow-wow at the historic Fort Omaha parade grounds. The wacipi on Saturday, September 21st, was hosted by the Omaha Tribe, native to this region of the Missouri River valley. During dance after dance, carried […]
With Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) as Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) running mate, you have a two-senator ticket – all talk, no executive action; no “favorite son†advantage in a key swing state with a huge chunk of votes in the electoral college; and a man whom voters resoundingly rejected when he was running for the […]
We’ve often discussed anti-father bias in Child Protective Services cases. Fathers are frequently marginalized and deprived of custody of their children when their wives/ex-wives/ex-girlfriends abuse their children. This terrible Nebraska case detailed below is another example. In the case, a mother abused her daughter and child protective services took the girl. There were no accusations […]
New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.†According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,†in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim. Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw […]
The Failed War on Drugs Combined Edition for January-February 25 Links to stories about Corrupt Cops, Reforms, Botched Drug Raids, News, This Week in Drug History and More The USA’s Second Longest Running “War”–After the “War on Poverty” Corrupt Cops, This Week in Drug History, Reforms, News, More! Our January-February Special Edition of the “Failed […]
Talk about bad timing. On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) – who has endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) – called Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) to make the case that dropping out of the race was in the best interests of the party. The next day, Huckabee decisively won the KS caucus (60 percent to […]
(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]
File this under it-takes-all-kinds, but a state Senator in Nebraska has decided to sue God. That’s right, this fool of a politician has decided to pull God into court. The AP reports that Ernie Chambers (who’s probably always been mad that his parents decided to name him “Erine”), the so-called “angriest black man in Nebraska,” […]
A game of hide-and-seek turned deadly for a little boy in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. James Cook, 6, was found dead Monday night while playing the game with his nine-year-old sister. He was said to have crawled into an old microwave and suffocated when he was unable to free himself. The microwave was one of a pile […]
Shannon Malloy, 30, from Fremont, Nebraska was involved in a serious car accident on January 25. When the car crashed near Tecumseh, about 50 miles outside of Lincoln, the force of her head hitting the passenger’s side dashboard separated her skull from her spine, causing what doctors call atlantooccipital dislocation, or internal decapitation. Amazingly, she […]
The new identity theft protection and recovery service by Truston is live. The service is unique because it doesn’t require you to give up your personal information, which could be stored in a database, and used to commit identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands. In case you’ve missed the weekly stories, databases […]
First gypsies impersonate Dr. Phil and now someone is selling tickets to the Oprah show that smell a little “phishy.” Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan warned the public in a official statement: In this case, e-mail recipients are asked to submit personal information and told they will receive tickets to The Oprah Winfrey Show after […]
I’ve had the opportunity to look at a lot of identity theft services, but until now – I’ve never run into one I considered “victim friendly.” I’ve written off most of the services I’ve seen — either because they were financial services products (created by those who had compromised victims themselves) — or they were […]
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