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Halloween Events
What are your favorite Halloween-related events around town? I haven’t really been into Halloween for a few years, so I’m behind the times. A couple old reliables:
- Boo at the Zoo. A classic at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.
- Lincoln Children’s Museum‘s Halloween Hurrah.
- Roca
BerryScary Farm. When I was a kid we always got our pumpkins from Roca. - Trick-or-treating at Westfield Gateway. My sister takes her kids to the mall every year.
Those are mostly events for young kids. Any to add to the list? What are the best events for older kids and adults?
Tolls on I-80
I didn’t realize anybody was seriously considering turning I-80 between Lincoln and Omaha into a toll road. Apparently it’s a big enough threat that Lee Terry feels the need to legislate against it. He says states shouldn’t be able to charge tolls on roads already built with federal dollars.
Personally, I think tolls are a great way to get money directly from the people who use a service. Who better to pay for maintenance and improvements on roads than the roads’ users? Of course, it would be easy to take the next step of using tolls to pay for all sorts of other projects. The Lincoln Arena funded by I-80 travelers, anyone?
Peeking Under Pershing’s Skirt
Did any of you have a chance to do the Pershing tour yesterday? I really wanted to, but instead I was reffing soccer matches in the rain yesterday afternoon. (On the plus side I got to eat at Cristina’s in Crete afterwards. Yum!) If you went, what were your thoughts?
Public Enemy
The Lincoln Turco Star has a new story on some young entrepreneurs who are trying to establish hip-hop entertainment here in town. They also kindly hit us over the head remind us about how hip-hop is associated with crime and violence. But of course.
Check Those Tens
Counterfeit $10 bills are roaming the streets of Lincoln. Think only businesses and banks need to worry? Think again. If you receive one, you’re out ten bucks. And if you try to use one, well, I hope you cleared some time out of your schedule to have a short chat with LPD.
Nobody Wants to Fly to Lincoln
I have a nomination for Least Surprising Headline of the Week:
Nobody booking flights from Scottsbluff to Lincoln
At $600 round trip, who is surprised?
The LJS and the PDQ Council
Today’s editorial in the JournalStar starts out pretty difficult to disagree with. Government should be accessible to the people, they say. Bravo! I think we can agree that accessible government is a good thing.
But then the editorial goes the other direction. It proposes drastically speeding up the City Council’s ordinance-passing process, squishing something that normally takes three meetings into just one. I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised. It’s a common complaint that government is too slow and too messy. But to see the LJS’s editors succumb to the “speedy government is good government” fallacy is disappointing.
In fact, speed is a substantial threat to quality, accessible, accountable government. Knee-jerk ordinances will cause far more problems than those that have a chance to sit and simmer for a while. Apparently the LJS favors the microwave dinner approach to government; me, I’ll take barbecue every time.
Milling Around the Tube
I noticed a commercial for The Mill on TV tonight. I’m pretty sure that’s the first time I have ever noticed them advertise in any media other than print. Drooping sales? Proactive marketing? As a non-coffee drinker I have no idea what to think. It was just strange seeing a local legend of sorts advertising. I thought, “What are they doing running tv commercials? Everybody knows The Mill!” Which of course any marketer will tell you is a silly think to think.
The Godfather returns
Don Tom Osborne is back. Today he was named as the interim AD at UNL.
For a short period of time I think this is a good choice. Make everybody feel good about NU athletics again. Start the healing process of Husker Nation.
Will Callahan be his first mob hit?
Will he make Bo Pelini an offer he can’t refuse?
Who will be his Consigliere? And eventually take over the Husker family?
Scoop
[tongue in cheek] Does this mean that I scooped the LJS by three months? And to think they didn’t even credit me! [/tongue in cheek]
Historical Mess
Boy oh boy, who would have believed that an agency as benign as the State Historical Society could be such a wasteland of fraud and waste. They couldn’t even get a simple lease right. You have to wonder how that sort of mess can last so long.
Early Returns
LES wants to take less of your money earlier than expected. Any complaints?
Pederson done
The most divisive figure in University of Nebraska athletics is gone. Steve Pederson was fired as athletic director today by Chancellor Harvey Pearlman.
Pearlman said his decision was made last Thursday, and he consulted the president of the University, JB Milliken, on Saturday.
I highly believe that Paul Meyers leaving was the last straw for Pederson. When the lead fund raiser for the Athletic Dept. leaves without good reason, there is obviously a problem.
Pearlman also says that no personnel changes will be made at this time.
Now the question is, who will be the interim AD? One was not named at the press conference. Who will be the permanent AD? Will Callahan and Co. keep their jobs for the rest of the week? rest of the month? rest of the season?
Even despite this news today, we still have an awful football team. Our defense is bad. Our offense is bad. The coaching staff still has seemed to have lost control of the team. Nothing has changed on the field. And nothing about todays announcement should change your opinion about how the football team has been performing.
Electrifying Broadband
Should Nebraska’s public power utilities be able to sell broadband to its customers? On the one hand, there are a lot of similarities between internet access today and power last century. On the other, public broadband would put government in direct competition with private companies.
Should LES (et al.) be allowed to sell you broadband? Would you buy it from LES if it were available?
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