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Jean Wants It That Way · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: And a very good morning to you. Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: Kfab Comment Line. I am your host, Gene Stothard, Peyton Hilock.
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Speaker 1: My producer is honeymooning. So guess who is here on
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Speaker 1: his ninety six hour in kfab studio. Scott Morheath no one.
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Speaker 2: Ne only feels like it's only been about nine or
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Speaker 2: you know, nine point six minutes.
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Speaker 1: I bet you it feels like it's been about six weeks.
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Speaker 1: But thank you for being here today, Scott, and thank
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Speaker 1: you all for being here. We want to hear from you.
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Speaker 1: We want to get your feedback, We want to hear
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Speaker 1: your comments, concerns, questions, complaints, anything goes. We will not
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Speaker 1: back away from anything city, state, national, the world. And
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Speaker 1: of course you can talk about the street car all
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Speaker 1: you want, and we're going to have plenty of guests,
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Speaker 1: and of course you're going to hear plenty of opinions
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Speaker 1: a recorded message on the talkback mic and we'll play
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Speaker 1: it on the air. But we are happy that you
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Speaker 1: are with us today. Yesterday we had Clark Ross on
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Speaker 1: Scott and we talked a lot about something that I'm
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Speaker 1: very excited about and it's going to be extremely helpful
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Speaker 1: to about one hundred and twenty plus businesses small businesses
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Speaker 1: that are on Harney and Farnham on the streetcar line
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Speaker 1: that have been negatively impacted. Clark Ross started up the
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Speaker 1: Streetcar Impact Alliance. He said yesterday there's at least one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty small businesses along that corridor, which again
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Speaker 1: is Harney and Farnham, that are affected. We did have
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Speaker 1: a caller that called in and he asked about what
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Speaker 1: about the businesses that have already closed Because this what
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Speaker 1: we were talking about yesterday was a new fund privately
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Speaker 1: funded by the Sherwood Foundation. They put in five million
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Speaker 1: dollars through the Nebraska Enterprise Fund, which is a state organization,
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Speaker 1: and that people businesses along the route that are suffering hardships,
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Speaker 1: that they can prove that they had at least ten
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Speaker 1: percent or greater drop in sales, that they can apply
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Speaker 1: for these loans. They did a pilot of ten thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars loans and now any business can apply all the
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Speaker 1: information is online and these loans in the future can
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Speaker 1: go up to seventy five thousand dollars or more. So
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Speaker 1: one of the things I'm backing up here a little
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Speaker 1: bit is a caller called in and said, what about
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Speaker 1: the businesses that have already closed? How many have closed?
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Speaker 1: And what about them? And then he made the comment
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Speaker 1: too bad, so sad, and I said, no, that's not
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Speaker 1: how we feel at all. I did follow up with
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Speaker 1: Clark though, and of about the one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 1: businesses that are now part of the Streetcar Impact Alliance
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Speaker 1: that are still up and running along the corridor, he
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Speaker 1: said that there's been approximately ten that have completely closed
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Speaker 1: down during the construction, So although that's not a huge percentage,
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Speaker 1: it's still ten businesses. And then I said, I am
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Speaker 1: aware that this fund with Nebraska Enterprise Fund, is directed
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Speaker 1: at businesses that will stay in business through twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: eight and then those loans could be forgiven. And Clark
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Speaker 1: did tell me yesterday after the show that he is
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Speaker 1: working on a plan, trying to get a plan together,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people putting some thought in it of
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Speaker 1: what they can do with those businesses that have indeed
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Speaker 1: closed because of hardship beyondlong the streetcar line, So that
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Speaker 1: is not being just forgotten. I just knew that this
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Speaker 1: enterprise fund was not directed at those businesses that had
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Speaker 1: already closed. So for your information, there's been about ten
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Speaker 1: approximately ten that have closed, and there's about one hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty plus that are still open that we can
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Speaker 1: direct this to now. So I think that that's very
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Speaker 1: good information, and I was glad to hear this.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're not New York City where we open city
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Speaker 2: run grocery stores, and so I do think, if you'll
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Speaker 2: allow me to opine for a moment, that there are
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Speaker 2: some people that say, I tell you what, we're sliding
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Speaker 2: more towards socialism in this country and what Mom Donnie's
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Speaker 2: doing in New York City is terrible. But also the
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Speaker 2: city of Omaha needs to pay these businesses to exist
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Speaker 2: while there's construction out there that will eventually benefit that.
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Speaker 2: I I mean, once you start saying we're going to
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Speaker 2: pay this business for that, or that business had to
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Speaker 2: close down, we're going to buy them out exactly, then
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Speaker 2: how do you not do that for someplace over here
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Speaker 2: when there's some road construction that impacts their business. There
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Speaker 2: are businesses around Saddle Creek that have been impacted by
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Speaker 2: construction in that area for several months, and they're not
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Speaker 2: part of this because they're not on the streetcar construction line.
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Speaker 2: I empathize with those businesses, but you either pay all
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Speaker 2: of them or none of them. And we're not a
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Speaker 2: socialistic city, nor should we be.
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Speaker 1: And that is true, and it was why this was
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Speaker 1: not taxpayer funds, right, and it cannot be taxpayer funds.
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Speaker 1: The City of Omaha could not provide taxpayer paid funds
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Speaker 1: to help small businesses. It's unconstitutional. They would get sued
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Speaker 1: over that. But to your point, Scott, that is absolutely true.
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Speaker 1: And that's why the first one and a quarter million
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Speaker 1: that we gathered together when I was still in office,
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Speaker 1: we ran it through the Chamber of Commerce rather than
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Speaker 1: the City of Omaha, because exactly your point. We do
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Speaker 1: road construction all over the place, I mean, but a
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Speaker 1: lot of it is done within four months or six
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Speaker 1: months to a year at the longest, and we didn't
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Speaker 1: want that to happen to be providing funds for hardship
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Speaker 1: during construction. And then every bit of road construction all
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Speaker 1: over Omaha, all the way out to the Elkhorn River.
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Speaker 1: People would say, wait a minute, I'm being inconvenienced right now.
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Speaker 1: I need some money from city and you just can't
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Speaker 1: do that. I mean, you don't have enough taxpayer dollars
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Speaker 1: nor can you use it, and you're not going to
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Speaker 1: have enough donors that are going to come in and say, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're going to give you another five million dollars because
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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight Street is being resurfaced right now.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so that's the long and short of it.
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Speaker 1: The thing that is the most worrisome about the streetcar
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Speaker 1: again is it was supposed to be complete in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six and now it's twenty twenty eight. So that's
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Speaker 1: an extended period of time for these businesses along the
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Speaker 1: streetcar line, and it's to all of our advantage for
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Speaker 1: these businesses to stay up and running.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you are a business owner and you
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Speaker 2: are thinking, I want to be in a good financial
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Speaker 2: position somewhere down the line to where if something God
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Speaker 2: forbid happens and my business is losing money and I
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Speaker 2: need someone to come in here and provide a little
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Speaker 2: bit of a check, a little bit of assistance, then
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Speaker 2: you want to make sure you have Susie Buffett as
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Speaker 2: a customer, as a patron of your business. So every
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Speaker 2: business owner right now needs to look at him or
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Speaker 2: herself in the mirror and go, what can I do
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Speaker 2: to be a better business owner to provide goods and
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Speaker 2: services to Susie Buffett of the Sherwood Foundation. Because she's
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Speaker 2: the one who wrote the check for these businesses. I
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Speaker 2: presume she likes going to Mercury or one of the
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Speaker 2: other spots along.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I Susie is a friend of mine
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Speaker 1: and Osh and we are as different as night and
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Speaker 1: day as far as our politics goes. But she is
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Speaker 1: a delightful, wonderful person. And I will bet you Scott
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Speaker 1: Vorhees that she has probably been in one or two
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Speaker 1: of these one hundred and twenty businesses along the street
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Speaker 1: car line. That's not her motive at all. That's not
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Speaker 1: what gets her going. What gets her going as she
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Speaker 1: recognizes needs in the community and that's why she has
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Speaker 1: been Her and Sherwood Foundation have been so helpful in
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Speaker 1: the city of Omaha, you know, just a good another example,
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Speaker 1: particularly up in North Omaha with some of the development
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Speaker 1: up there. I mean, she has put in millions and
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Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars and yet kept her name
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Speaker 1: out of it, because it's not that she wants the
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Speaker 1: credit for it. It's just she really wants to help
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Speaker 1: with it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I know, and I enjoy I only see her
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Speaker 2: for just a couple of minutes about one time a year,
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Speaker 2: and I take full advantage of that and pester her,
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Speaker 2: uh and and try and try and try and make
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Speaker 2: her roller eyes and laugh at me. But it wouldn't
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Speaker 2: hurt as a business owner if you make bread, to
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Speaker 2: think what kind of bread does Susie Buffett like? You
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Speaker 2: never know, maybe she's a big sour dough fan, maybe
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Speaker 2: pumper Nichols or things, right, you don't.
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Speaker 1: Know, I really don't know what kind of bread Susie like.
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Speaker 2: You want to make sure, I would put a billboard
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Speaker 2: out there saying this is hey, Susie, We've got right.
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Speaker 1: She probably would laugh and appreciate that. But you know,
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Speaker 1: she is also one of the most down to earth
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Speaker 1: people I've ever met, you know, like her dad, well, Warren.
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Speaker 1: If people don't know Warren, you know personally he is
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Speaker 1: so down to earth. I just remember going in Warren's
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Speaker 1: office one day and he had khaki pants on and
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Speaker 1: they were wrinkled up and a T shirt and he
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Speaker 1: had a can of peanuts sitting on his desk and
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Speaker 1: he looked like you just got out of bed. But
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Speaker 1: that's Warren Buffett. He is just so down to earth.
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Speaker 1: And I'll say this about Susie. I know what her
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Speaker 1: favorite story is. It's Target. Oh yeah, oh yeah, she
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Speaker 1: loves Target. I love Target too. She is a woman,
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Speaker 1: I know it. But you know what, She's just a
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Speaker 1: very down to earth person that really wants to do good.
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Speaker 1: So this is really great. This is great for those businesses.
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Speaker 1: And no, there's no way that people are saying too bad,
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Speaker 1: you know, so sayid too bad you businesses closed down?
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Speaker 1: They obviously are looking at ways that they could help
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Speaker 1: them too. Now, Scott, there was another caller that called
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Speaker 1: in yesterday and as I always say, I will get
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Speaker 1: back with you with some more information, and I want
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Speaker 1: to get back with this caller because he seemed rather annoyed.
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Speaker 1: And this was a caller that said he called nine
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Speaker 1: to one one for an ambulance after he fell, and
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Speaker 1: Omaha medics came out out in a medic unit and
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Speaker 1: transported him to the hospital and he received over a
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars bill, and he said, I pay taxes. Why
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Speaker 1: am I getting a bill? And then when I explained
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Speaker 1: that it was a fee that's imposed on a user,
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Speaker 1: he said, in what statute is that in? I've got
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Speaker 1: the statute for you today. I hope you're still listening,
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Speaker 1: but I will just say this in Section ten, Dash
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Speaker 1: two seven six of Omaha City Code, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: read it to you because I think it's important. It's
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Speaker 1: a fee schedule, payment, fees, records, billing and collection, and
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Speaker 1: it says a fee shall be imposed upon each user
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Speaker 1: for the transport in a publicly owned ambulance, which may
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Speaker 1: include the administration of basic or advanced life support services
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Speaker 1: by fire department personnel or users provided medical support services
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Speaker 1: in accordance with the schedule of the charges stated below.
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Speaker 1: And then it goes through different charges. For example, one
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Speaker 1: basic life support services with trans support to a medical
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Speaker 1: facility will be a two hundred and ninety five dollars charge,
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Speaker 1: Advanced life support services with medical transport to a facility
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Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety five dollars with for advanced life support,
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Speaker 1: and then it goes up from there. And then it
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Speaker 1: also says a charge of five dollars and forty seven
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Speaker 1: five dollars and forty seven cents per loaded mile that's
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Speaker 1: with a passenger in it will be imposed on each
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Speaker 1: transport to a medical facility. And then it goes on
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Speaker 1: to say the above rates are in compliance and will
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Speaker 1: be implemented in accordance with the fee scheduling guidelines set
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Speaker 1: forth by Federal Healthcare Financing Administration and are subject to
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Speaker 1: an annual update. The fire Chief and the Finance Director
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Speaker 1: are authorized to review and increase or decrease these rates
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Speaker 1: on an annual basis, taking into account Federal Healthcare Financing
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Speaker 1: Administration guidelines. So it is in city code and they
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Speaker 1: are using Federal healthcare guidelines for the payment and the
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Speaker 1: fees that are imposed for the services that are provided.
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Speaker 1: And then it goes on to quote in city code,
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Speaker 1: many many parts of city code, meaning city ordinances, which
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Speaker 1: are city laws where this is addressed in city code.
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Speaker 1: So that's your answer. There is statute, there is federal statute,
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Speaker 1: and there is city code.
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Speaker 2: Just I know you're fairly new to the radio thing here.
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Speaker 2: So what happens then is we take the segment where
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Speaker 2: you read city code on the air, and we have
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Speaker 2: to submit it for a Marconi Award given to the
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Speaker 2: best radio segments of the year, and then right and
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Speaker 2: then you go to a banquet and receive it or
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Speaker 2: maybe they mail it to you. So that's we're still
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Speaker 2: months down the line for that. They don't immediately come
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Speaker 2: in here and hand it to you after reading city
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Speaker 2: code on the air.
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Speaker 1: He's making fun of me actually answering my caller.
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Speaker 2: That segment takes me back to your fairly new as
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Speaker 2: mayor at the time. I mean, you were on my
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Speaker 2: show here on KFAB and I asked you.
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Speaker 1: I told me I talked too much.
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Speaker 2: No, I asked you. Said, that's why you're here. So
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Speaker 2: I asked you something and you said, I don't know
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Speaker 2: that yet. I'm going to find out. Can I come
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Speaker 2: on tomorrow at the same time and answer that question.
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Speaker 2: I said sure, And twenty four hours later he said, okay,
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Speaker 2: I found out the answer to that question. You there's
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Speaker 2: something weird about you where you like going into some
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Speaker 2: of this and the ordinances and trying to figure out
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Speaker 2: what's there, what it says, what it means, and how
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Speaker 2: we can make it better.
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Speaker 1: I like to give very accurate answers, and I did
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Speaker 1: that for the past twelve years too. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to leave anybody hanging, and I don't want to say
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Speaker 1: anything wrong, you know. And there was not making fun
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Speaker 1: of Jim Subtle. That I got to tell you. When
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Speaker 1: Jim Subtle was mayor and I was on the city Council,
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Speaker 1: we were down in Lincoln and testifying in front of
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Speaker 1: a committee. I don't even remember this subject, but I
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Speaker 1: remember the legislators that were in that committee asked Mayor
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Speaker 1: Subtle at the time a few questions, and one was
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Speaker 1: about They asked a simple question, what is the city
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Speaker 1: le And he said, you'll have to ask my finance director.
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Speaker 1: And then they said what is your city budget? And
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Speaker 1: he said you're going to have to ask your finance director.
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Speaker 1: My finance director about that too, And I thought, I
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Speaker 1: am never going to be in this situation. You better
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Speaker 1: know your stuff, and if you don't know your stuff,
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Speaker 1: you better say I'll get the answer, because the ANSWER's
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Speaker 1: out there. I mean, the ANSWER's out there. And I
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Speaker 1: think people don't realize that you know the city code,
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Speaker 1: city ordinances, they are all online. You could read every
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Speaker 1: single one of them. Now that I'm saying that I
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Speaker 1: got to bring something else comes to mind. People have
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Speaker 1: always come to me, for example, and they will say
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Speaker 1: that that wheel tax was always meant to be temporary.
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Speaker 1: I hear that all the time. Why do you still
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Speaker 1: have that wheel tax that was meant to be temporary?
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Speaker 1: And I will always guide them back to the city
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Speaker 1: code and city ordinances, because the code is in there
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Speaker 1: and you can read it yourself. They say the same
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Speaker 1: thing about the restaurant tax. The restaurant tax was supposed
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Speaker 1: to be temporary. And Jim Rose even will say this,
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Speaker 1: he will say, and it was all supposed to go
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Speaker 1: to the fire and Police pension. No it wasn't. It
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Speaker 1: was never temporary. It is a tax, that is you
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Speaker 1: could read about it in city code. You could pull
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Speaker 1: it up yourself. You could go there, you know, to
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Speaker 1: the city Finance department web. You could pull up city code.
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Speaker 1: You could pull up restaurant tax and you could see
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Speaker 1: and nowhere does it say it was temporary, And nowhere
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Speaker 1: does it say that you know that it's going to
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Speaker 1: go away in so many years. The wheel tax, when
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Speaker 1: we go back to that, it was first imposed in
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Speaker 1: about nine I think it was about nineteen o five,
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Speaker 1: not nineteen no, no, no, I'm nineteen hundred, early nineteen hundred.
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Speaker 1: It was not nineteen oh five early early years and
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Speaker 1: years ago, like one hundred years ago. And it's been
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Speaker 1: that way every since. It first started out to be
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Speaker 1: a dollar the wheel tax, and then it went up
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Speaker 1: to two dollars and now it's fifty dollars for a car.
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Speaker 1: But it's been in city code for about a hundred years.
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Speaker 1: It was never meant to be temporary. That's my rant today.
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Speaker 1: It's all. That's why I refer to city code because
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Speaker 1: it's all. It's all in there.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's get into your thoughts here. This is the
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Speaker 2: KFAB comment Line with no guest in the opening part
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Speaker 2: of the hour. Let's get right to you. Being the
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Speaker 2: guest here with Jean Stotthard has hosted the program. Travis,
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Speaker 2: thank you for your patience. You're on news radio eleven ten.
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Speaker 2: Kfab's comment Line with Jean Stott, Good.
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Speaker 3: Morning, Good morning. I appreciate you Scott and Eugene for
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Speaker 3: taking my call and being on here every day. First
16:34
Speaker 3: started listening to this channel when I worked for the
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Speaker 3: FAA Flee and now I'm back to working in Lincoln,
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Speaker 3: but I still enjoy listening to you guys and My
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Speaker 3: comment is about I hear all this you guys talking
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Speaker 3: about traffic enforcement for speeders and street racers and stuff,
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Speaker 3: and we just had the Nebraska Sandhills Open Challenge out
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Speaker 3: there in Western Nebraska. Have you guys ever considered doing
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Speaker 3: something like that in Omaha and closing down a street
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Speaker 3: so people could take their cars out and have some
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Speaker 3: fun legally, and maybe doing that on a monthly basis
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Speaker 3: in the summer, because I think you'd also would help
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Speaker 3: with with people that want to get out on the
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Speaker 3: street and use their cars, and then it'd be more
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Speaker 3: of an enclosed environment. And they do that out in
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Speaker 3: Western Nebraska once a year, So I was just kind
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Speaker 3: of seeing what your other's thoughts were on that.
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Speaker 1: You know, I know that's fun and I know a
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Speaker 1: lot of people enjoy doing it. To be honest with you,
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Speaker 1: that's never come up to do something like that in Omaha.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's certainly a thought, but I know people
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Speaker 1: have been asking me, you know, why doesn't Omaha do
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Speaker 1: the State Fair? And I think that a lot of
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Speaker 1: those decisions are made by obviously other people. But it's
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a great event. I know a
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Speaker 1: lot of people like doing it. There was an approach
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Speaker 1: to us when I was mayor about doing and you
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Speaker 1: know what, I'm trying to remember what exactly it was,
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Speaker 1: but it was an actual street with with high powered cars,
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Speaker 1: a street race that they wanted to do through Omaha
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Speaker 1: that they would have to close down all the street.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember what that was, Scott?
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Speaker 2: I know they were doing it in Chicago. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: like Travis there, and thank you for your call, Travis.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't like people could just decide to drive their
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Speaker 2: honto Civic at time.
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Speaker 1: No, these were like formula cars or something.
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Speaker 2: They're already doing that on West Maple, but that's not allowed.
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Speaker 2: This was This was a a particular race through the
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Speaker 2: streets of Chicago, right. I think what he's saying is
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Speaker 2: it was ever a discussion to do that in Omaha.
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Speaker 2: Where would you do that?
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Speaker 1: Well, it would and that's just it, and it would
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Speaker 1: have to be when we were working with this one
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Speaker 1: group to bring these actual race cars. This was probably
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Speaker 1: a good twelve years ago in Omaha. What they were
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Speaker 1: looking at is this downtown at the time, and it
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Speaker 1: would be a matter. You know, public Works got very
18:58
Speaker 1: very involved with it, and it was a matter of
19:00
Speaker 1: you know, what streets did you have to shut down?
19:03
Speaker 1: And how long would they have to be shut down
19:05
Speaker 1: and how that would affect businesses and you know, blah
19:08
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So there was a lot that went
19:10
Speaker 1: into that, and they finally decided that it just wasn't
19:14
Speaker 1: feasible to do it in Omaha. So you know that
19:17
Speaker 1: that's kind of where we left that. But for what
19:20
Speaker 1: you are talking about, I've never been there, but I
19:23
Speaker 1: bet it's a lot of fun. Do we have an
19:25
Speaker 1: I know Scott's on the phone, they're talking.
19:28
Speaker 2: No, we have lots of calls on the line here
19:30
Speaker 2: and we're going to come back to your thoughts as
19:32
Speaker 2: well as more from Geene Stouthard on the kfab comment
19:35
Speaker 2: line after a Fox News update.
19:36
Speaker 4: Next, this is the kfab comment Line with Jean stouth
19:40
Speaker 4: and we.
19:41
Speaker 1: Are back and Scott moorheez, I'm surprised you're not playing
19:45
Speaker 1: Backstreet Boys.
19:46
Speaker 2: I was coming up here towards the end of the show.
19:48
Speaker 1: I heard you talking about it this morning. Yes, I
19:50
Speaker 1: will not be here in the studio tomorrow because my
19:53
Speaker 1: daughter Elizabeth and I are going to Las Vegas this
19:56
Speaker 1: weekend to see the Backstreet Boys at the sphere, and
19:59
Speaker 1: you said, and you mentioned it to the Chipster to Chip,
20:03
Speaker 1: who's going to fill in for me? He said, who, No, Chip,
20:06
Speaker 1: Come on, he's much younger than me.
20:09
Speaker 2: Jim Maxwell, he actually changed his plans. He was going
20:12
Speaker 2: to go see En Sync at Madison Square Garden, but
20:15
Speaker 2: he's gonna come in here and do the comment line tomorrow.
20:17
Speaker 5: All right, all.
20:19
Speaker 1: Right, but it'll be fun. And like I said, we
20:21
Speaker 1: have to wear white, so I gotta find something white
20:23
Speaker 1: to bring the bit. We know a lot of Backstreet
20:26
Speaker 1: Boys songs and I'm going to be singing them all
20:28
Speaker 1: next week.
20:29
Speaker 6: Oh boy.
20:29
Speaker 1: So there.
20:30
Speaker 2: I'm glad Peyton will be back.
20:32
Speaker 1: Peyton will be back, Yes he will.
20:34
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to your thoughts here. It
20:37
Speaker 2: is the KFAB comment line four oh two five five eight,
20:40
Speaker 2: eleven ten. And there was an issue that came up
20:42
Speaker 2: earlier about ambulance services in Omaha. Someone comes pick me up?
20:47
Speaker 2: Why do I gotta pay for it? I thought, that's
20:49
Speaker 2: what my tax is paid for. Jean Starth read the
20:52
Speaker 2: statute on the air. Dan is responding to all of
20:55
Speaker 2: that here on news radio eleven ten KFAB, Good morning, Dan,
20:59
Speaker 2: Good morning.
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Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, Harry, y'all doing this morning good, We're good.
21:05
Speaker 5: When I lived in the Dallas Fort Worth area, MedStar,
21:08
Speaker 5: their local ambulance service offered. I guess you'd basically call
21:13
Speaker 5: it an insurance policy because you're paying for something that
21:15
Speaker 5: you hope you never use. That You paid two hundred
21:19
Speaker 5: and fifty dollars a year if you in the event
21:21
Speaker 5: you needed an ambulance, your two hundred and fifty dollars
21:24
Speaker 5: a year covered your ambulance. Right. They also did the
21:26
Speaker 5: same with life Flight, really and it worked out very
21:30
Speaker 5: very well.
21:32
Speaker 1: Well, like you said, you hope you never use it,
21:34
Speaker 1: but you hope you never use the fire department or
21:37
Speaker 1: the police department either, but you definitely want them there
21:40
Speaker 1: if you do need them. You know what they should
21:42
Speaker 1: check into that. I did not know about that. I
21:45
Speaker 1: did not know that that was available, but that would
21:47
Speaker 1: definitely be something to look into. So I appreciate you
21:52
Speaker 1: bringing that up.
21:53
Speaker 2: Thanks, Thank you very much for the call.
21:54
Speaker 7: Dan.
21:55
Speaker 2: You can also email comment at kfab dot com and
21:58
Speaker 2: we'll get to some of those here in a moment
21:59
Speaker 2: as well. The wheel tax and the streetcar was discussed.
22:04
Speaker 2: We have responses here. First on the wheel tax, here's
22:08
Speaker 2: Rob on the kfab comment line. Hey Rob, Hey.
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Speaker 7: There, So you are writing the wheel tax begin in
22:17
Speaker 7: nineteen seventeen. So when people say I remember, no, they don't.
22:23
Speaker 7: What people do remember or maybe not, It just got
22:27
Speaker 7: passed down. The winter of nineteen fifty nine nineteen sixty
22:31
Speaker 7: was just extraordinarily brutal and really took its toll on
22:35
Speaker 7: the streets. There was a one time FO dollar increase.
22:40
Speaker 7: It was for one year. It was sunset and it
22:43
Speaker 7: went away. But you know, rumors get passed down from
22:47
Speaker 7: generation to generation, and it's like the game of telephone.
22:51
Speaker 7: Reality sort of gets distorted.
22:53
Speaker 1: Yes it does, and I appreciate that. I was gonna
22:55
Speaker 1: mention it, but I thought maybe I'm getting too detail
22:57
Speaker 1: on that. But you are absolutely right it was. It
23:00
Speaker 1: was in the late nineteen fifties, I think you said accurately,
23:04
Speaker 1: probably nineteen fifty nine. The streets were torn up because
23:08
Speaker 1: of a particularly bad winter. They raised the fee for
23:11
Speaker 1: one year, and then they dropped it back down again.
23:14
Speaker 1: And so I don't know if people some people remember that,
23:18
Speaker 1: they read about it, they heard about it, But again,
23:20
Speaker 1: it was never ever meant to be temporary. It never was,
23:26
Speaker 1: and you know, right now. It's for a car. It's
23:28
Speaker 1: fifty dollars a year. It started out as a dollar
23:32
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventeen, and so it really hasn't increased that much.
23:36
Speaker 1: But all of that money, all of the money that
23:39
Speaker 1: is collected for the wheel tax, has to go back
23:42
Speaker 1: to the city and be used on the roads. It's
23:45
Speaker 1: not used for anything else.
23:47
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for the call there. Rob. You
23:49
Speaker 2: mentioned the restaurant tax and you cited Jim Rose. We
23:53
Speaker 2: have an email to Jim Rose.
23:54
Speaker 1: Is Jim Rose on here?
23:56
Speaker 2: We have an email from Jim Rose. I hasn't a
23:58
Speaker 2: called in. He could probably come down the hall and
24:01
Speaker 2: come in here by I come busting in it any minute.
24:03
Speaker 2: He just emailed okay and said the restaurant tax was
24:06
Speaker 2: presented to the public by Jim Subtle. Quote. This is
24:10
Speaker 2: a temporary tax to shore up the police and fire
24:13
Speaker 2: pension funds. When it is made solvent, the tax goes away.
24:18
Speaker 2: Jim says. If I'm lying, I'm dying. That's an email
24:21
Speaker 2: to comment at kfab dot com.
24:23
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jim Rows. However, jim My buddy, you if
24:28
Speaker 1: you go whatever Jim Subtle said, if you go online
24:34
Speaker 1: and you look at the law. The law does not
24:37
Speaker 1: say that at all. It says that it is a
24:40
Speaker 1: tax and all of these these types of taxes go
24:44
Speaker 1: into the general fund. But here's what was going on
24:48
Speaker 1: at that time. At that time, the fire and police
24:51
Speaker 1: pension was estimated to be about twelve million dollars short
24:56
Speaker 1: that year, and they they adjusted that restaurant tax several times.
25:02
Speaker 1: If you remember, the first time it was approved by
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Speaker 1: the council because I was on the council, it was
25:06
Speaker 1: four percent or something. And then they re analyzed it
25:10
Speaker 1: and said, no, that's going to bring in much more
25:12
Speaker 1: money than we need. We really only need about twelve
25:16
Speaker 1: million to shore up the fire in the police pension.
25:20
Speaker 1: And so they lowered it, and they lowered it, and
25:22
Speaker 1: it came out to two and a half percent. After
25:24
Speaker 1: the city council adjusted it several times. They amended it
25:27
Speaker 1: several times. But that money, he said, would be used
25:32
Speaker 1: to shore up the fire and police pension, but it
25:36
Speaker 1: was never it was never passed into law that that
25:39
Speaker 1: was the only thing that it would be used for.
25:43
Speaker 1: And so since it's been in effect since ten twenty ten,
25:49
Speaker 1: since then, the revenue of that restaurant tax goes up
25:53
Speaker 1: every single year, and the only couple of years it
25:56
Speaker 1: went down was during COVID. Now, the revenue of that
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Speaker 1: wheel of the restaurant tax is about forty eight million
26:03
Speaker 1: dollars a year. Forty eight million dollars a year, and
26:07
Speaker 1: it all goes into the general fund. It's all dispersed
26:10
Speaker 1: to all of the other departments. And so the first
26:14
Speaker 1: amount that that came in was used to shore up
26:18
Speaker 1: the fire and police pension. But it was not put
26:20
Speaker 1: into law that that's the only thing it would go into.
26:24
Speaker 1: And let me bring up something else about the fire
26:26
Speaker 1: and police pension. It also says in city code, it
26:30
Speaker 1: says in the City Charter that the pension system will
26:35
Speaker 1: be the contributions to the pension system fire and police
26:39
Speaker 1: pension system they're combined, will be substantially equal between the
26:44
Speaker 1: employee and the employeer. So let me just give you,
26:49
Speaker 1: you know, an example. If that restaurant tax right now
26:53
Speaker 1: is bringing in forty eight million dollars a year, then
26:57
Speaker 1: according to what Jim is saying, we should be putting
27:00
Speaker 1: all forty eight million into the pension. Yeah, that would help,
27:03
Speaker 1: but that's forty eight million of taxpayer dollars. Would the
27:06
Speaker 1: fire or police want to put in the same amount
27:10
Speaker 1: because the charter says substantially equal amounts. Would they want
27:14
Speaker 1: to raise the amount that they are putting in the
27:16
Speaker 1: pension or should it be all on the backs of
27:18
Speaker 1: the taxpayers? No, it shouldn't be. And why would I
27:22
Speaker 1: want to dump in all that additional money into the
27:24
Speaker 1: fire and police pension? If the fire and police would
27:28
Speaker 1: not negotiate that, they would dump a whole lot more
27:30
Speaker 1: of their take home salary into the pension. See where
27:33
Speaker 1: I'm at with this. So, if they're substantially equal, it
27:37
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense for the taxpayers to bear the burden
27:41
Speaker 1: of most of the contributions to the fire and Police pension.
27:44
Speaker 1: It should be substantially equal, and that's what it says
27:47
Speaker 1: in city code and city Charter.
27:48
Speaker 2: Before we get to a couple of calls about the
27:50
Speaker 2: street car, we got an email here, also on the
27:52
Speaker 2: subject to some of these fees. This one comes to
27:56
Speaker 2: comment at kfab dot com from Lyn says, good morning,
28:00
Speaker 2: I'm inquiring about the false alarm program in Omaha. Is
28:04
Speaker 2: this the city's sponsor program? If so, how does it work? Yes,
28:08
Speaker 2: commentary On my part, I think you should just charge
28:10
Speaker 2: the people who are responsible for the false alarms, and
28:14
Speaker 2: those of us who are not responsible for false false
28:17
Speaker 2: alarms should not have to pay the annual fee.
28:21
Speaker 1: You do, I mean you don't. You're not paying scott
28:24
Speaker 1: Worths if you don't have an.
28:25
Speaker 2: Alarm the false alarm reduction.
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Speaker 7: No.
28:28
Speaker 2: If you do have an alarm, yeah, that's fine. But
28:30
Speaker 2: I'm saying, if I'm not responsible for false alarms, I
28:35
Speaker 2: shouldn't have to pay. Whoever it was that can't figure
28:38
Speaker 2: out how to set his alarm and is constantly having
28:41
Speaker 2: people come over there and check to see what's going on,
28:44
Speaker 2: they should have to pay for it.
28:45
Speaker 1: And they do. Listen, I have an alarm system in
28:48
Speaker 1: my house, and I will I will confess I was
28:52
Speaker 1: the biggest offender because what would happen is is my
28:57
Speaker 1: you know, if I would go out of town and
28:59
Speaker 1: I would have a a dog sitter or a house
29:01
Speaker 1: sitter come in, they were setting that alarm off all
29:04
Speaker 1: the time. But when what you do with the City
29:06
Speaker 1: of Omaha, because this is what I do, is you
29:09
Speaker 1: pay a small amount. I think it's like twenty five
29:12
Speaker 1: dollars a year or thirty five to register your alarm
29:16
Speaker 1: with the city. You're just registering it every year. You
29:20
Speaker 1: do it every year to register your alarm with the city.
29:22
Speaker 1: And then if you set your alarm off and you
29:26
Speaker 1: don't cancel it and the fire and police all come
29:29
Speaker 1: out to your house. Yeah, you have to pay for
29:31
Speaker 1: that and so and then with each false alarm you
29:35
Speaker 1: pay more. So you get one pass. Your first false alarm,
29:40
Speaker 1: you don't pay for anything. Your second one it's like
29:43
Speaker 1: one hundred. Your third one it's like two hundred. I
29:46
Speaker 1: remember one year I had like five false alarms and
29:50
Speaker 1: I paid a lot of money to the City of Omaha.
29:53
Speaker 2: So I have to pay when I'm not doing anything
29:56
Speaker 2: because you don't know how to set your alarm. It's
29:59
Speaker 2: like if I'm having to pay an annual fee in
30:02
Speaker 2: case I'm caught speeding, that's just how about you just
30:04
Speaker 2: charged me if I'm caught speeding.
30:06
Speaker 1: But that's just to register your alarm with the city
30:09
Speaker 1: so that they monitor it.
30:10
Speaker 2: Basically money grab. I don't know, nah, but I got
30:12
Speaker 2: I got my own show to complain about that stuff.
30:14
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the kfab comment line and your thoughts.
30:18
Speaker 2: Of course, the street car came up. We have calls.
30:20
Speaker 2: The first one here it comes from Terry Terry. You're
30:23
Speaker 2: on news radio eleven to ten KFAB with Jean Stothard.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, Good morning. I wanted to talk about the
30:31
Speaker 6: streetcar and uh, you were talking earlier about you know,
30:37
Speaker 6: if we pay businesses that are affected by the street cars,
30:41
Speaker 6: and uh, then we have to do it for all
30:44
Speaker 6: all construction.
30:46
Speaker 7: Uh.
30:47
Speaker 6: I don't think that's true, because road construction is a
30:51
Speaker 6: necessary evil. Everybody knows that the streetcar was not necessary.
30:57
Speaker 6: I feel like it's a pet project that was kind
30:59
Speaker 6: of forced a on the people of Omaha. And I
31:01
Speaker 6: don't know anybody who asked for it.
31:04
Speaker 1: Well, appreciate your comment. There were many people who ask
31:07
Speaker 1: for it. And yes, you know, when there was a
31:10
Speaker 1: lot of road construction going on over the last twelve years,
31:14
Speaker 1: I got many, many, many calls from people from all
31:18
Speaker 1: over Omaha, all the way out to Elkhorn saying I
31:21
Speaker 1: got to take a detour to get to my house,
31:23
Speaker 1: I got to take a detour to get to the
31:25
Speaker 1: grocery store. And I think you should be compensating us
31:28
Speaker 1: because that road repair and road reconstruction is going on. So, yes,
31:32
Speaker 1: that does happen. It definitely does happen. And I've been
31:36
Speaker 1: asked that many, many times. But yeah, it is one
31:39
Speaker 1: of those things that people want to have happened too.
31:41
Speaker 1: You know, each time we put a bond issue out
31:44
Speaker 1: on a ballot for people to vote for, and there's
31:46
Speaker 1: usually five the one on the street bond issue always
31:49
Speaker 1: passes with the greater percentage of votes because people want
31:53
Speaker 1: their roads to look good and they understand that it's
31:56
Speaker 1: going to be a temporary inconvenience. The problem with the
31:59
Speaker 1: street is it's just so long. I mean, look at
32:02
Speaker 1: six eighty. If you drive six eighty from about L
32:05
Speaker 1: Street all the way up to Dodge, they're adding Hawkins Construction,
32:09
Speaker 1: who I love working with, is adding another lane in
32:12
Speaker 1: each direction. That's a massive amount of work. They will
32:16
Speaker 1: be done by the end of the year. By the
32:18
Speaker 1: end of this year, they're going to be done out
32:20
Speaker 1: onto another project. And so usually these things are tremendously
32:26
Speaker 1: bothersome to our commuters. They don't like them, they don't
32:30
Speaker 1: like the detours and things. But most of the projects
32:33
Speaker 1: are done really really, really really quickly. Now, as far
32:36
Speaker 1: as you say and nobody wanted the street car, you
32:38
Speaker 1: know what, that's just not true, And it's just not
32:41
Speaker 1: me that wanted the streetcar. And I've said at many
32:44
Speaker 1: times that the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, with a
32:47
Speaker 1: huge group of people, got together and it was called
32:50
Speaker 1: the Urban Core Committee, and they were to really study
32:53
Speaker 1: business leaders, philanthropists, people from all over Omaha got together
32:57
Speaker 1: study downtown midtown for over year and when their recommendations
33:02
Speaker 1: came out for orderly growth in that area, what we
33:05
Speaker 1: needed to do. The number one priority that they identified
33:09
Speaker 1: was a streetcar. So there was a many many people
33:12
Speaker 1: that pushed it forward. And this wasn't just something new.
33:15
Speaker 1: How Dobb was talking about the streetcar when he was
33:18
Speaker 1: mayor and that was years and years and years and
33:20
Speaker 1: years and years ago, and so the streetcar has been
33:23
Speaker 1: in conversation for a long time. This was pushed by
33:26
Speaker 1: a large group of Omaha and says say, we need
33:29
Speaker 1: the streetcar downtown. But let me just bring up another
33:32
Speaker 1: couple examples. Is I had so many people say we
33:36
Speaker 1: do not need a baseball park downtown Omaha. We want
33:40
Speaker 1: to stay at Rosenblatt. I will never go downtown and
33:42
Speaker 1: see another College World Series game again. You folks in
33:46
Speaker 1: the city ruined it. You ruined it. I heard the
33:49
Speaker 1: same thing with the arena convention Center. We don't need
33:52
Speaker 1: that arena convention Center. I heard the same thing with
33:54
Speaker 1: the Dodge Expressway. Remember they were protesting when the Dodge
33:59
Speaker 1: Expressway came, men saying you're gonna ruin Miracle Hills. We're
34:02
Speaker 1: gonna ruin Miracle golf course. Who asked for this? Nobody
34:05
Speaker 1: wanted it. Well, now look at it. People are saying
34:08
Speaker 1: it should be wider, it should be bigger. And so
34:11
Speaker 1: I know these things a lot of things. When you
34:13
Speaker 1: do big construction projects, people will scratch their head and say, well,
34:17
Speaker 1: I didn't ask for this. I don't know why we're
34:19
Speaker 1: doing it. But in the long run, like I said,
34:22
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be dead and gone. But I think people
34:24
Speaker 1: are gonna go wow. Whoever pushed the streetcar forward, they
34:27
Speaker 1: knew what they were talking about. That's going to happen
34:29
Speaker 1: one of these days. But I appreciate your comments.
34:31
Speaker 2: One more quick call here about the streetcar, then we'll
34:34
Speaker 2: move on to a few other subjects. And it's from Mary. Hello. Mary,
34:38
Speaker 2: You're on eleven ten KFAB comment line with Jean Stouthard.
34:41
Speaker 7: Good morning, Hi there.
34:44
Speaker 5: I would like to know why it has taken almost
34:47
Speaker 5: two extra years to complete the streetcar.
34:51
Speaker 1: I can answer that question, Mary, and that is the work,
34:56
Speaker 1: the utility work that Mud basically demanded the City of
35:02
Speaker 1: Omaha do. And we we were going back and forth
35:06
Speaker 1: and back and forth with Mud trying to come up
35:09
Speaker 1: to an agreement because originally, when the original plans were designed,
35:13
Speaker 1: we were going to do utility work right under the
35:16
Speaker 1: rails and that was about it. And you know, the
35:19
Speaker 1: original amount of cost for Mud to do work under
35:25
Speaker 1: the rails was less less than twelve million dollars. That
35:30
Speaker 1: was the original estimate, and it was going to be
35:32
Speaker 1: done by the end of twenty twenty six. Now it's
35:36
Speaker 1: over forty five million dollars worth of work that Mud
35:41
Speaker 1: is requiring under the roads, and it's taken two years longer.
35:45
Speaker 1: And that's the reason why, I mean the entire reason why. Now,
35:49
Speaker 1: the city could have continued to try to negotiate with Mud,
35:55
Speaker 1: but as they were doing that, it just delayed the
35:59
Speaker 1: finish more and more and more, and so it came
36:02
Speaker 1: to the point the city says, Okay, we're going to
36:05
Speaker 1: do all this work. We're going to get this utility
36:07
Speaker 1: work done.
36:08
Speaker 3: Now.
36:08
Speaker 1: In the long run, it makes some sense because the
36:11
Speaker 1: last thing you want to do. What do you hear
36:13
Speaker 1: all the time you hear up a main broke, The
36:17
Speaker 1: last thing you want to do is put rails in
36:20
Speaker 1: and have a street car rather than and have a
36:21
Speaker 1: water main break underneath. And so I mean water mains
36:26
Speaker 1: halfway down the block from the rails now are being replaced.
36:30
Speaker 1: But we have old streets downtown where these rails are going.
36:33
Speaker 1: In the infrastructure underneath, some of these water lines and
36:37
Speaker 1: gas lines are especially and the sewer lines down there,
36:40
Speaker 1: but especially the water lines one hundred and twenty years old,
36:44
Speaker 1: and that that's worrisome because they're old. So that's why
36:48
Speaker 1: they're doing it. But that was not in the original
36:50
Speaker 1: design and plan of the city, and that's why it's
36:52
Speaker 1: taken so long. It's all of that infrastructure work that
36:54
Speaker 1: they're doing underneath the roads.
36:56
Speaker 2: Mary, thank you so much for that phone call. Have
36:59
Speaker 2: a wonderful afternoon. Clay and Bucker coming up here in
37:02
Speaker 2: about fifteen minutes. Jean Stothard is back to wrap up
37:05
Speaker 2: the comment line.
37:05
Speaker 1: Next.
37:07
Speaker 4: This is the KFAB comment line with Gene Stothard on
37:11
Speaker 4: news radio eleven ten KFAB.
37:13
Speaker 1: Are you playing the Backstreet Boys? You my five? Oh?
37:20
Speaker 2: You actually know the song?
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Speaker 1: DIZI wow, I.
37:27
Speaker 2: Am singing along with half of one song in a
37:30
Speaker 2: two hour I one that way.
37:34
Speaker 1: Now you all know I can't sing. Oh, I can't.
37:37
Speaker 1: This is gonna be fun.
37:38
Speaker 2: I love this. I'm not the only one who sings
37:40
Speaker 2: on this radio station.
37:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you sing good and I don't.
37:43
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't.
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Speaker 1: Oh, this is gonna be so fun. My daughter and
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Speaker 1: I are going to be dancing and having a good time.
37:48
Speaker 1: But you know, on another subject, I just have to
37:51
Speaker 1: bring up these these crazy elections that are happening all
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Speaker 1: over the country, and the one in Wisconsin particularly has
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Speaker 1: my attention because Francesca Hong was double digits ahead in
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Speaker 1: the polling extreme leftist Francesca was. She did not win
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Speaker 1: that primary. David Crowley did, remember David Crowley a month
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Speaker 1: before the election ended his campaign because he thought she
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Speaker 1: was so much ahead he won. She didn't. But my
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Speaker 1: point I want to make is polling. You can't always
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Speaker 1: believe these polls, and polling is only a snapshot in
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Speaker 1: time at that individual time. And that's why you know
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Speaker 1: they were off by a mile with Francesca Hong, and
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Speaker 1: that's it's hard for polsters to be off that much.
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Speaker 1: But it happened here. So when you hear about these polls,
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Speaker 1: you can't always believe it. And I will tell you
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Speaker 1: I'm one that did a lot of polling and during
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Speaker 1: my campaigns, and I never made my polling public ever, ever, ever.
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to use it internally because I wanted
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Speaker 1: to know if I was doing good here, if I
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Speaker 1: was doing bad there. I never came out and said
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Speaker 1: anything about my polling. I just have to bring up
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Speaker 1: the last time I ran before the primary. Mike McDonald
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Speaker 1: was in that primary, and he puts out this poll,
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Speaker 1: a little snapshot of it, and said I'm ahead of everybody.
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Speaker 1: Look at me, I'm ahead in the polls. And my
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Speaker 1: polls that I kept internally never had him ahead in
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Speaker 1: the polls. So even what people push out and say
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Speaker 1: I'm ahead in the polls, look at this, Look at
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Speaker 1: this little piece of paper here it says I'm ahead.
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Speaker 1: You can't believe it. I mean you really can't. There Again,
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Speaker 1: they are a snapshot in time. They can be off
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Speaker 1: by miles. And that's what happened here. So and a
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Speaker 1: lot can happen between somebody announcing how they are doing
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Speaker 1: in their polls and how they're not so you hear polling.
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Speaker 1: You hear national polling all the time about the president. Well,
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Speaker 1: the president's polling rate show he's thirty percent or whatever.
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Speaker 1: But again that's a snapshot in time right now. You
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Speaker 1: can't always believe those things, and boy, you are seeing
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Speaker 1: that right now. Now. Speaking about elections, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: bring up Denise pal again because I talk about Denise
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Speaker 1: Palla a lot, and Denise, if you are listening, you
40:12
Speaker 1: are welcome to be on my show anytime, and we
40:15
Speaker 1: will be very fair and respectful. But now she has
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Speaker 1: a new commercial and she is really changing her message
40:23
Speaker 1: and I think you all maybe have heard it, but
40:25
Speaker 1: I heard it again this morning, and I thought I
40:27
Speaker 1: had to bring it up because last commercial, when she
40:30
Speaker 1: introduced herself to us, she was a p od mom.
40:33
Speaker 1: Now she says, I'm a mom and I'm a small
40:36
Speaker 1: business owner and I'm fed up like you are. So
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Speaker 1: she's not pe oed anymore. Now she's fed up and
40:44
Speaker 1: she's just a mom, a small business owner. But part
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Speaker 1: of that commercial she said that she brought Democrats and
40:54
Speaker 1: Republicans together, and then she has some person recorded on
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Speaker 1: her commercials saying I like how you work with both parties.
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Speaker 1: I have been a Republican elected official for twenty seven years.
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Speaker 1: I have never worked with Denise Powell. I have no
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Speaker 1: idea what she's talking about where she brought Democrats and
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Speaker 1: Republicans together, and I would sure like her to come
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Speaker 1: out and give us some examples how she brought Democrats
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Speaker 1: and Republicans together. And notice in her new commercial she
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Speaker 1: never says she's a Democrat anymore, and so she's no
41:25
Speaker 1: longer advocating for the Blue dot. I guess, Buttopti, so
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Speaker 1: you know what that's crazy? But listen to her commercial
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Speaker 1: let me know what you think about it. But thank
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Speaker 1: you all for joining us this hour, today and again.
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Speaker 1: Chip Maxwell will be here tomorrow while I'm dancing in
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas with my daughter, and we'd love for you
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Speaker 1: to join us back on Monday. Peyton, we'll be back
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Speaker 1: from his honeymoon on Monday. I'm Jean Styther and this
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