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What Nebraska Can Learn from the Mississippi Miracle in Education
The “Mississippi Miracle” is catching headlines across states for delivering education success at a low cost. Most recently,…
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Taking federal dollars is different than respecting federalism
(NOTE: An earlier version of this article has had some math calculations corrected. The author acknowledges that she…
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Matt Wynn on Tracking Government Salaries
The Flatwater Free Press is Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit newsroom focused on investigations and feature stories that matter.…
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Nebraska should join the responsible state budget revolution
Nebraska’s Revenue Committee is advancing a broad overhaul of the state’s tax code. These reforms, if enacted, would…
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Tracking Waste, Fraud & Abuse in Nebraska with Addie Costello & Deputy Auditor Craig Kubicek
City clerks in 17 small Nebraska towns have been caught stealing from taxpayers in recent years. Addie Costello…
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A Flurry of Fraud: City Clerks Have Recently Stolen Money from 17 Nebraska Towns
By Addie Costello Flatwater Free Press Over and over again, Steve Sharp told the village clerk that she…
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A Blueprint for Better Broadband in Nebraska
Foreword by Jim Smith Jim Smith is Chief Strategy Officer at the Platte Institute and former President of…
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Nebraskanomics: Senator John Stinner on Balanced Budgets and Leadership
The chair of the Unicameral’s budget-writing Appropriations Committee joins Jim to discuss the financial picture for Nebraska and…
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See the new database of Nebraska state employee salaries
The Platte Institute, The Flatwater Free Press, and Code for Nebraska have published an online, searchable database of state…
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What should Nebraska do with more federal money?
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented amount of money sent to the state of Nebraska from…
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Testimony for LR178: Nebraska’s Use of American Rescue Plan Act Funds
Members of the Appropriations Committee, my name is Sarah Curry, and I am the policy director at the…
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Nebraska’s unemployment trust fund is now above pre-pandemic levels
During the height of the pandemic and directed health measures that caused businesses across the state to close,…