Debate between candidates for NE Governor
Candidates for Governor discussed their views on property tax raises in
Nebraska at a debate at the Nebraska State Fair last month at Grand Island.
Bob Krist, the Democratic challenger to Governor Pete Ricketts, said he would
support a plan to direct more state income and sales tax toward reducing the
property taxes Nebraskans paid.
Ricketts acknowledged that every year he has introduced legislation on property
taxes and criticized Krist for being in the State Legislature for 10 years and only
proposing one bill on property taxes.
Krist said the legislation Ricketts proposed last year favored corporations and the
highest income earners.
Krist said he supported the petition to get Medicaid for more than 90,000
Nebraskans on the ballot and he will vote for it in November. He also said it
would not cost as much as the estimated $64 million.
Gov. Ricketts said the real problem was that Obamacare was a failure because
premiums and deductibles have gone up. Ricketts said his concerns are the
affordability and when it gets fully phased in, saying it will cost $100 million and
take away from funding for roads and education.
A second debate that had been scheduled in Wayne last Friday was cancelled
after the two campaigns failed to reach agreement on terms of the event,
including television coverage.
New restrictions will punish aspiring Americans
The Trump Administration announced a proposed change to a long-standing
provision of immigration law that would limit aspiring Americans’ ability to
become lawful permanent residents if they have used certain public work-support
programs that help many hard-working families continue their jobs and move out
of poverty.
The proposed rule change greatly increases the categories of public assistance
programs and temporary safety nets that can be used to block someone from
getting on a pathway to lawful permanent residence and participate fully in the
country they call home.
Nebraska Appleseed Immigrants & Communities Director Darcy Tromahauser
said this proposed change would force millions of American families to make the
impossible choice between their essential needs for their families and a future
with the people they love. It will remove the possibility to achieve the American
Dream for many hard-working families who perform essential work in their
communities, while at the same time endangering the health of millions of U.S.
citizen children.
“We urge Nebraskans to leave a public comment opposing this new rule. The
best way to build a strong country is to make sure all hard-working families have
the food, medical care, housing and other basics they need to get ahead,”
Tromanhauser said.
MLCDC awarded from the Department of Treasury
Midland Latino Community Development Corporation has been awarded with a
Financial Assistance grant from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s
Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund). This is the first
time that MLCDC receives this kind of award, but the second grant awarded from
the CDFI- Fund. MLCDC received in 2006 a Technical Assistance grant to work
in the MLCDC’s CDFI certification. MLCDC received its CDFI’s certification in
June 2017, and the organization was recertified in June 2017.
“We work with great passion for our community. The support received from this
Federal agency is the great value for our community and organization,” said
MLCDC Executive Director, Marta Sonia Londono.
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