An effort to upend Nebraska’s entire tax system took a key step last month. According to campaign finance reports, the “EPIC Option” petition drive contracted with a Florida company in October to [...]
Ruth Sorensen, the state’s property tax administrator since 2007, is leaving her post after sources say she was asked to resign. Her exit was announced Thursday morning in a two-paragraph press release [...]
In its reporting from Tuesday's Fall Policy Symposium, the Omaha World-Herald covered panel discussions focused on fines and fees, property taxes and investments that would make Nebraska more welcoming to immigrants who [...]
OpenSky's Fall Policy Symposium featured a panel discussion focused on "opportunities and solutions" in evaluating property tax reform in Nebraska. During the Symposium, Professor John Anderson noted that changing how agricultural land [...]
After Nebraska's Secretary of State certified petition signatures, LB 753, the bill creating private school scholarship tax credits, will be placed on the November 2024 ballot. Commenting for a story by Nebraska [...]
Election officials verified more than 91,000 petition signatures, enough to put the question of taxpayer-funded private school scholarships on the November 2024 ballot. OpenSky Executive Director Rebecca Firestone, quoted in the Omaha [...]
Nebraska's Secretary of State certified petitions to put the question of taxpayer-funded private school scholarships on the November 2024 ballot. In its story, the Lincoln Journal Star noted a survey conducted on [...]
In the three months that petitioners have circulated across Nebraska looking for support for an effort to repeal a new tax credit law, campaigns both for and against the initiative have raised [...]
Once signature verification is complete, Nebraska voters in 2024 are expected to weigh in on LB 753, a measure passed by the Nebaska Legislature in 2023 to provide state tax credits for [...]
OpenSky Policy Institute joined a coalition of Nebraska groups urging Congress to support a full repeal of the lifetime ban on individuals with past felony drug convictions from receiving SNAP benefits. In [...]