Despite the many letters to the editor from residents outraged at the Journal Star’s recent coverage of the young woman who allegedly left her newborn at the hospital, it is obvious that your paper continues to show a double standard, and dare I say, an obvious bias against women.Go ahead and read the rest.
My priorities are good tax policy, fiscal responsibility, and policy reform to deliver important public services to those in need while prudentially managing revenues. I believe allowing families and persons to save, spend, and invest more of their own money strengthens the economy. Taxes should be simple, reasonable, and moderate. The evidence is clear: tax relief has stimulated economic growth and increased productivity and federal revenue. As your Congressman, I voted to prevent tax increases on families and small businesses. I have supported estate tax relief to protect family-owned businesses and farms and allow all Nebraskans to pass their earnings to future generations. Government can and does do many good things. Yet spending your money should be done with a spirit of fiscal discipline. I recently supported legislation (the line-item veto) that gives the President the authority to eliminate wasteful spending items and allows Congress to revote on the measures. I believe this is one way to encourage fiscal prudence and increase lawmakers’ accountability to taxpayers.Among Fort's preferred pork: $1 million for the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure in Pennsylvania, despite the fact that the Center's existence could not be confirmed by the man who asked for the money.
"If your son doesn't stop biting kids he won't be allowed to come back to the Y."Maybe I'm a bad parent, but the first thing I did when I heard that was burst out laughing. For one thing, the mental image of shrimpy little 15-month old Robbie walking around and nibbling on other kids is pretty amusing. And then there's the woman's reaction to Robbie biting one kid. I may be mistaken, but I was under the impression that kids bite each other now and then. They're experimental that way. Kids skin their knees; they have tantrums; and they occasionally bite. Threatening expulsion after one incident seems a tad over-the-top. That's like threatening to put a puppy to sleep after it playfully nips at your finger. Plus, it's a little refreshing to see that Robbie is trying new foods. Not that I condone biting, of course. If we ever catch Robbie biting someone he will be punished to the extent you can punish a 15-month old. We've had pretty good success with our discipline techniques so far (knock on wood!), so I don't see why we can't nip this behavior in the bud, if there's even anything to nip. Robbie aims to please; he is typically mortified to discover that he did something that makes mom and dad mad. Anyway, here's hoping our little cereal biter doesn't become a serial biter. At the rate prosecutors are charging kids with crimes these days, little Robbie could find himself with a rapsheet before he's two.
Drivers frustrated with delays caused by the work zone probably will be happy to hear construction may end sooner than planned, [Nebraska Department of Roads spokeswoman Mary Jo] Hall-Oie said. "We're hoping it could be done yet in December of this year as opposed to fall of next year," she said.That would be some ten months early, give or take a couple months. If true, somebody buy those construction workers a box of donuts! Do you think we could get that construction crew on the O Street bridge replacement project?