Richard Shugrue

DeWald Nails Issue Of Impeachment

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Thu, 10/31/2019 - 12:00am

To read an intelligent, fair discussion of impeachment, take a look at Tracy DeWald’s piece, “An Evaluation of Nebraska’s Impeachment Standard,” at 19 Creighton L. Rev. 357 (1986).

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Money Just Keeps Flowing On College Campuses

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Thu, 10/24/2019 - 12:00am

Go ahead, UNL, and build your new $155 million athletic facility at no cost to the beleaguered taxpayer!

Of course it’s a huge pile of cash, but higher education is a lot different from what people my age experienced when we started in the mid 50s.

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Junk Art Adds Grace To Omaha, Lincoln

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 12:00am

If you want to start a bar room fight, you don’t have to praise Trump or insult Sanders, but just say loudly how much you like the new junk art installed on public property.

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Big Cases Scheduled For Scotus Term

Published by jaymi@omahadail... on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 12:00am

The new term of the U.S. Supreme Court crept up on us Monday and started with a bang.

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Bills Stalled by Senate, Not House

Published by admin on Fri, 10/04/2019 - 12:00am

If you’ve been drowning in a sea of impeachment chatter for a couple of weeks, you’re probably not too concerned about the plastic wading pool of what else the 116thCongress is doing with its time.

The President has repeatedly said that the House of Representatives is so busy investigating that it has done nothing, nada, zilch in the way of law making.

That is not true.

It has done a lot and you may not like the results but many of the bills the House has passed in 2019 have been buried in Mitch McConnell’s graveyard of legislation.