Submitted by admin on Fri, 2005-10-28 08:00. ::
The problems are that Lincoln has several elementary schools and city parks. A large percentage of the city will be kept off-limits for sex offenders to live in. Child molesters can still own cars, use city buses, walk, etc. This cannot be controlled. Unregistered child molesters cannot be monitored.
Ultimately, these measures, though having merit, have serious limits to their effectiveness. The only real way to keep child molesters from preying on children is to remove and keep them from society. A 20-year sentence does not guarantee they will not repeat their offenses again. This can only be done by putting them either in prisons or in mental health centers for the rest of their lives.
The only way to implement such a policy is at the legislative and judicial levels. A city ordinance, though having symbolic merit, will not make a significant impact.
If you owned a beautiful china vase, hand-painted by your great-grandma, you’d keep it very safe. If you had a gold watch given to you by your great-grandfather, you’d handle it with care.
Just nine miles northwest of downtown, we all have something even more precious: 230 acres of undisturbed prairie, waiting for us. A place where we can walk right into the past. A bit of land the way it was before any of our great-grandparents ever rode a horse or built a fire or told a story.
Because Wachiska Audubon has cared for this land, we can head out there today or tomorrow. Have a brisk hike. Linger to watch the sunset. Take the kids. But go soon.
When the Lincoln Electric System, your city-owned utility, builds its planned power line with 10-story towers along part of Nine Mile Prairie’s southern edge, this living landscape will be irretrievably marred, your experience will be seriously degraded, and we all will struggle to find words to tell our children’s children how we allowed such an outrage to be committed in our name.
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson took strong and positive action last week to protect the food stamp program from budget cuts in the Senate Agriculture Committee and deserves everyone’s commendation. In 2004 alone, almost $200 million was generated in Nebraska’s local economy as a product of the federal food stamp dollars spent in the state.
Nelson’s leadership ensures that thousands of hard-working Nebraska families, working hard toward self-sufficiency, can put adequate nutritious meals on their tables and will not need to rob from their limited food dollars to pay their skyrocketing gas, utilities and other family expenses.
In addition to helping vulnerable Nebraska families and senior citizens, Nelson’s vote to protect the food stamp program from further budget cuts also makes sound economic sense for Nebraska farmers and grocers.
The bottom line: This vote was good for all Nebraskans, and we look forward to Nelson continuing to champion working families, family farmers and senior citizens by protecting food stamps and Medicaid in the ongoing federal budget process.
I’m not the most religious person around, but when it comes to intelligent design, I ask anybody to tell me how a honeybee or bumblebee could be the result of pure chance. Someone who does not want to believe in God will always find an excuse.
In the late 1700s, several years before the theory of evolution, the Marquis de Sade said he was an atheist because some branches of philosophy taught that the decision is made first; the support follows.
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