UNL budget gaps prompt plan for reallocations and cuts
Interim Academic Vice Chancellor Ned Hedges confronts a $41 million expense vs $40 million revenue gap at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He plans a preliminary position paper by October and weighs options from unit budget returns to program eliminations and staffing shifts to rebalance funding while facing faculty, enrollment, and accreditation considerations.
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Jack Kennedy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ned Hedges
Hedges
Enforcement hurdle slows Nebraska pesticide law acceptance
EPA official says enforcement of state pesticide rules is the main obstacle to accepting Nebraska’s law. Senators propose compromise but refuse state funded enforcement or entry without a warrant. Key disputes include self certification by farmers and penalties for uncertified applicators. Wicklund notes contingency approval possible only with a strong enforcement provision.
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Environmental Protection Agency
Nebraska
EPA
John Wicklund
Region 7
Wicklund
Schmit
Linkletter condemns family collapse at assessment conference
Art Linkletter told assessors Americans divorce too often and move cities, and he criticized working mothers for outsourcing child upbringing. He urged focus on God home and family amid a 1969 Los Angeles death connected to his daughter Diane.
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Portland
Ore
Art Linkletter
Linkletter
International Conference On Assessment Administration
Diane
Los Angeles
Farmers urged to strike over parity demand in Nebraska
Elwood reports more than 200 farmers and wives were urged to back a 100 parity on wheat and corn. George Boucher of Ravenna leads a volunteer grassroots effort calling for signs on machinery, a tax boycott, and halt to meat imports if the Carter administration rejects the plan. He advocates a grain reserve owned by producers and grain alcohol use to fuel fuel-ethanol fuel.
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Elwood
UPI
Carter
George Boucher
Ravenna
Nebraska
Boucher
Diamond stolen from Lincoln jeweler by two men
Police seek two white males in their mid thirties who entered Fred Wilson Jewelers at 13420 St. Monday around 5 p.m. made a minor purchase then caused a disturbance and left with a 2 carat 52 point diamond valued at $750. Officers were reviewing store surveillance Tuesday morning.
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Lincoln
Fred Wilson Jewelers
Hastings woman claims kidnapping by two men
Carrie Uhrmacher a 24 year old Hastings agricultural lab technician told San Francisco FBI she was abducted in Lincoln on Sept 18 and driven to the Bay Area by two men before escaping in San Francisco. FBI said no confirmation yet and is interviewing her as a possible kidnapping case.
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Jim Aucoin
Hastings
Lincoln
San Francisco
Calif
Carrie Uhrmacher
Miss Uhrmacher
FBI
Bay Area
Donald
Flossie) Uhrmacher
Carrie
Hastings Agricultural Lab
O St
Jim Ahearn
Airport Authority rejects renaming Lincoln field Lindbergh Field
Lincoln Airport Authority discussed and dropped plans to rename Lincoln's airfield Lindbergh Field citing FAA concerns and cost. The board then approved a crash fire rescue and snow equipment building at an estimated 1.43 million with 66 percent federal funding and 25 thousand from the state. A 56 stall general aviation vehicle parking lot contract was awarded after a heated vote, with changes in the voting due to conflicts of interest. Frontier schedule expansion lifts Lincoln Terminal arrivals to 70 daily. A special meeting set for October 11 will address T hangers tie-down fees and related snatters.
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Linda Ulrich
Lincoln Airport Authority Board
Lincoln Airfield
Lindbergh Field
San Diego Union
Dick Joyce
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Lincoln's Field
Joyce
Authority
Rolland Harr
Airport Authority
Harry Amen
Amen
Don Geis
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Traffic and Transportation
John DuPont
Frontier
Lincoln Air Terminal
Exon Seen Shunning Governor Record
Ed Narjes the state GOP vice chairman says Governor Exon hints at a Senate bid to dodge his gubernatorial record. Narjes alleges Exon knows the state’s condition and fears blame for a new governor. He cites recent statements that Republicans press him to run for the Senate.
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Narjes
Exon
Sidney
UPI
Ed Narjes
Republican Party
J. J. Exon
U.S. Senate
Nebraska
Senate
Council Bluffs youth curfew renewal advances
Council Bluffs Iowa authorities win first approval on an amended curfew ordinance expanding the ban from 16 and under to include 17 year olds. Strong enforcement is urged to curb vandalism and disorder in the city.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Council Bluff City
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