Washington County Pilot-Tribune and Enterprise on Oct. 12: Legislative candidates, Blair school officials discuss schools’ reliance on property taxes The average percentage of local taxes used to support Nebraska’s K-12 schools is [...]
Washington County Pilot-Tribune and Enterprise on Oct. 12: Legislative candidates, Blair school officials discuss schools’ reliance on property taxes The average percentage of local taxes used to support Nebraska’s K-12 schools is [...]
Norfolk Daily News on Oct. 5: Property tax issues boil over in Northeast Nebraska There’s a different way to say “the grass is greener on the other side” in Nebraska. It’s “everybody [...]
Nebraska Press Association on Oct. 3: Let’s look at incentives The Legislature convenes in a few months, and everything is on the table. Or should be to deal with the problem of [...]
Members of the OpenSky staff will be on the road over the next couple weeks meeting with Chambers of Commerce, service clubs, media members and others in Columbus, Norfolk, O’Neill, Creighton, Pender, Lyons and Blair.
The North Platte Telegraph on Sept. 26: Nebraska doesn't need to apologize for supporting great public schools Recent opinion pieces criticizing support for public education in Nebraska raise a serious question: “When [...]
Lincoln Journal Star on Sept. 26: Local View: Examine tax breaks' impact on state budget Cutting state spending in order to reduce taxes is a common refrain in Nebraska. It actually was [...]
OpenSky is excited to announce that Claude E. Berreckman, Jr., has joined our board of directors and Will Kay and Mary Baumgartner have joined our staff as fellows.
Lincoln Journal Star on Sept. 9: Don Walton: Dramatic change underway in Nebraska A rather startling look at undergoing change in Nebraska framed an Open Sky Policy Institute symposium last week about [...]
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