Nebraska is looking at passing legislative bills that would benefit the wealthy, corporations, and out of state residents. Last year the Legislature passed income tax reductions, both for corporations and individuals. The [...]
A preliminary budget report issued Wednesday by a legislative committee leaves open the allocation for the University of Nebraska system, an allocation that has been criticized as failing to keep up with [...]
Gov. Jim Pillen should drop his raid on the Nebraska Environmental Trust and should reconsider policies that appear to require not one, but two, new state prisons, a legislative panel was told [...]
Ken Pralle’s home outside Wymore has been a construction site for more than a decade, with exposed insulation, steel rungs of scaffolding, plastic lining drawn like curtains. Pralle’s home sits at a [...]
Ahead of a scheduled hearing Wednesday afternoon in Lincoln, more information was shared about a proposal to adopt a state child tax credit. Legislative Bill 284 would provide for a $1,000 tax [...]
The state would pay public school districts $1,500 in foundation aid per student each year under a bill heard Feb. 7 by the Education Committee. In addition to that funding, LB583, introduced by Bellevue [...]
As the federal pandemic-boosted child tax credit drops from $3,600 to $2,000, one Nebraska lawmaker is proposing a similar state-level credit to help parents. LB-294, from Lincoln State Sen. Danielle Conrad, would give [...]
Gov. Jim Pillen told lawmakers Tuesday that a bill guaranteeing state support for every public school student and boosting special education funding is “pivotal” to his education package. “With these two pieces, [...]
The governor's plan to add $300 million a year to public schools draws support in Lincoln, but some districts including the state's largest one testified against it. Gov. Jim Pillen told lawmakers LB [...]
The assessed value of Nebraska agricultural and horticultural land would be based on its income potential rather than its market value under a bill heard this week in the Nebraska Legislature’s Revenue [...]