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Ernie Chambers

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Name: Ernie Chambers

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Child care assistance bill advances

Z 2013-05-22T16:26:05Z By JoANNE YOUNG / Lincoln Journal Star JournalStar.com19 minutes ago • By JoANNE YOUNG / Lincoln Journal StarThe Legislature advanced a child care assistance bill to final reading Wednesday after a thwarted attempt to amend the ... [Published Lincoln Journal Star - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Jeremy Nordquist, Kathy Campbell, Ernie Chambers

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Lawmakers favor tax incentives for wind development

More opinion A bill to help develop wind energy in Nebraska advanced in the Legislature Tuesday. It would give sales tax refunds to renewable energy companies that build projects in Nebraska.LB 104 was introduced by Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha.Nebraska ... [Published North Platte Bulletin - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Ernie Chambers, TradeWind Energy, Steve Lathrop

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 4 reports

We should spend no more than is necessary

Z By Sen. Charlie Janssen Fremont Tribune19 minutes ago • By Sen. Charlie JanssenWe enter the final three weeks of the 2013 legislative session with important state budget bill deadlines as well as crunch-time debate on individual, committee and Speaker ... [Published Fremont Tribune - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Charlie Janssen, Capital Punishment, Ernie Chambers

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Legislature approves new state budget

at 11:39 AM CDTStory Updated: May 21, 2013 at 11:41 AM CDTWith just a few days left in the 2013 legislative session; lawmakers have given unanimous approval to the budget that will guide the state through the next two years.Senators spent Monday discussing ... [Published KHAS-TV - May 21 2013]

Entities: Ernie Chambers, Omaha (Nebraska, United States)

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 3 reports

Attempt to repeal Nebraska sales tax law rejected

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Lawmakers on Monday rejected an attempt to repeal a new Nebraska law that lets cities raise their local option sales tax rates as long as they secure voter approval.The law gives cities the power to ask voters for an increase to as high ... [Published CNBC - May 21 2013]

Entities: Ernie Chambers, Tax Law, Bill Avery, Mark Christensen

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Legislature poised to allocate more for wildfire protection

More opinion Nebraska will have more equipment and money this summer to fight wildfires after fires last summer burned 500,000 acres. Senators moved the Wildfire Control Act (LB 634) from Select File last week, just a short step from passage after third ... [Published North Platte Bulletin - May 21 2013]

Entities: Wildfires, Ken Schilz, Ernie Chambers

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Lawmakers pass state budget

More opinion Lawmakers passed a package of bills Monday that make up the states $7.8 billion two-year budget. The budget represents a 5.2 percent increase in spending over the previous biennium.The bills passed with overwhelming support, but Sens. Beau ... [Published North Platte Bulletin - May 21 2013]

Entities: Ernie Chambers, Pete Pirsch, Charlie Janssen, Beau McCoy

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

UNICAM SENDS BUDGET BILLS TO GOVERNOR

Nebraska lawmakers Monday completed their major task of this year’s session, giving final approval to the 7 budget bills that make the state’s two-year budget and sending them to Governor Dave Heineman…who can make line-item vetoes.The package that boosts ... [Published Panhandle Post - May 21 2013]

Entities: Ernie Chambers, Taxes, Bellevue West High School

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

World-Herald editorial: Sales-tax law has merits

State Sen. Ernie Chambers strongly opposes the 2012 law giving Nebraska cities the option, with voter approval, of raising local sales tax by a half-cent. This past week, Chambers’ repeal proposal came up one vote short. ... [Published Omaha World-Herald - May 19 2013]

Entities: Ernie Chambers

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Weekly legislative roundup, May 13-16

More opinion Nebraska lawmakers finished up an eventful week failing to vote on a repeal of the death penalty and overriding the governors veto. Heres a look at this weeks Capitol happenings. LB 543: After eight hours of discussion, a motion for cloture ... [Published North Platte Bulletin - May 19 2013]

Entities: Ernie Chambers, Capital Punishment, Navigator, Probation, US Department of Health

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Half-cent sales tax bill could be rescinded by Monday

By PAUL HAMMEL World-Herald News Service Star HeraldLINCOLN -- State lawmakers came up one vote short Thursday of approving an amendment to rescind a law that allows cities to increase local sales taxes by a half-cent.The matter, raised by State Sen. ... [Published Scottsbluff Star-Herald - May 18 2013]

Entities: Brad Ashford, Ernie Chambers, Taxes

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Letter, 5/18: Grotesque ways to take life

Z JournalStar.com18 minutes agoRegarding the death penalty, Sen. Ernie Chambers was quoted as saying, "People who say from a distance they love the death penalty don't know what a grotesque ceremony it is." I agree with Chambers’ opposition to the death ... [Published Lincoln Journal Star - May 18 2013]

Entities: Ernie Chambers, Capital Punishment, Abortion, Pro-Choice

Quotes

"Every time the sales tax is put inin place, there is no escape for the poor," Chambers said last week. "a greater percentage of what they have is taken. there is no way to replace it."

Measure expresses city's support for higher sales tax [Published Individual.com - May 20 2013]

Regarding the death penalty, Sen. Ernie Chambers was quoted as saying, "people who say from a distance they love the death penalty don't know what a grotesque ceremony it is." I agree with Chambers’ opposition to the death penalty, even when the murder was far more heinous than death by lethal injection, electrocution or even...

Letter, 5/18: Grotesque ways to take life [Published Lincoln Journal Star - May 18 2013]

Earlier, Chambers said "there is randomness, arbitrariness and no standard for applying" the death penalty

Death penalty bill dead for the year [Published Lincoln Journal Star - May 14 2013]

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Child care assistance bill advances [Published Lincoln Journal Star - 5 hours ago]
We should spend no more than is necessary [Published Fremont Tribune - 11 hours ago]
Debating the death penalty, sales taxes [Published Fremont Tribune - 11 hours ago]
Lawmakers favor tax incentives for wind develop... [Published North Platte Bulletin - 22 hours ago]
Omaha Could Lose Power To Increase Sales Tax [Published WOWT - May 22 2013]
Omaha could lose power to increase sales tax [Published KETV.com - May 22 2013]
Legislature approves new state budget [Published KHAS-TV - May 21 2013]
Attempt to repeal Nebraska sales tax law rejected [Published CNBC - May 21 2013]
Lawmakers pass state budget [Published North Platte Bulletin - May 21 2013]
Legislature poised to allocate more for wildfir... [Published North Platte Bulletin - May 21 2013]
UNICAM SENDS BUDGET BILLS TO GOVERNOR [Published Panhandle Post - May 21 2013]
Sales tax repeal voted down [Published North Platte Bulletin - May 21 2013]
Attempt to repeal Nebraska sales tax law rejected [Published KETV.com - May 21 2013]
Measure expresses city's support for higher sal... [Published Individual.com - May 20 2013]
World-Herald editorial: Sales-tax law has merits [Published Omaha World-Herald - May 19 2013]
Weekly legislative roundup, May 13-16 [Published North Platte Bulletin - May 19 2013]
Half-cent sales tax bill could be rescinded by ... [Published Scottsbluff Star-Herald - May 18 2013]
Letter, 5/18: Grotesque ways to take life [Published Lincoln Journal Star - May 18 2013]
Another Swing At Wiping Out Local Sales Taxes [Published KXKT-FM - May 17 2013]
Saturday great day to get outdoors [Published McCook Gazette - May 16 2013]
Legislature: Death penalty bill dies [Published North Platte Bulletin - May 15 2013]
Death Penalty Repeal Dies [Published WOWT - May 14 2013]
Death penalty bill dead for the year [Published Lincoln Journal Star - May 14 2013]
Life inside death row [Published KETV.com - May 14 2013]
Death Penalty Debate [Published KNOP-TV - May 14 2013]
Lawmakers attempt to extend death penalty debate [Published KETV.com - May 14 2013]
Death penalty debate returns to legislature [Published KHAS-TV - May 14 2013]
Nebraska Senators Show Support For Death Penalt... [Published WOWT - May 13 2013]
State lawmakers debate abolishing death penalty [Published Channel 8 Eyewitness News - May 13 2013]
Bill abolishing the death penalty could be in p... [Published Lincoln Journal Star - May 13 2013]

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David Moshman: Ernie Chambers: Not Pledging All... [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Apr 03 2013] Outspoken civil rights activist and Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers' conception of the downtrodden includes students coerced into going along with a pledge they don't wish to say in order to avoid bullying from peers for their nonconformity. Read ...
The Morning Pride: March 15, 2013 [Published Think Progress - Mar 15 2013] Welcome to The Morning Pride, ThinkProgress LGBT’s daily round-up of the latest in LGBT policy, politics, and some culture too! Here’s what we’re reading this morning, but please let us know what stories you’re following as well. Follow us all day on ...
Black Nebraska Lawmaker Shames Republicans: Jes... [Published Crooks and Liars - Feb 21 2013] Click here to view this media Republican Nebraska state Sen. Mark Christensen says that a fellow lawmaker might go to hell because "he doesn’t have the relationship that it takes to be a Christian or go to Heaven" after filibustering a bill that ...