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Ewing talk and Grain Silos · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: I have now, Peyton, you will be proud.
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Speaker 2: I think I have mastered my cough button, which is
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Speaker 2: on this screen right in front of me.
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Speaker 3: Very good.
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Speaker 2: We've had some complaints because I into the radio everybody's
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Speaker 2: ears every day, but I've mastered it now. So if
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Speaker 2: I have to clear my throat because of these darn
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Speaker 2: Nebraska allergies I've developed, I will turn my cough button
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Speaker 2: on and you won't have to listen to me. So
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Speaker 2: if you have any other comments, if you listened yesterday
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Speaker 2: about Mary Barrett with Mary Barrett, it was fun to
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Speaker 2: have her on. She stayed on for a second segment.
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Speaker 2: But of the I always say, the world famous Barrett
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Speaker 2: family who owns Barrett's Barley Cohorn Pub and Grill down
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Speaker 2: there on Lovenworth. But longtime Democrat, a longtime family history
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Speaker 2: and politics, left the Democrat Party for multiple reasons, and
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Speaker 2: she has a lot to say. So thanks again Mary
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Speaker 2: for being here. You know, there's one thing I wanted
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Speaker 2: to bring up right off the bat here today, Peyton,
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Speaker 2: and I would love to hear people's comments on it,
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Speaker 2: but it is.
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Speaker 1: It's a debate.
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Speaker 2: I would call it conversation that the Omaha City council
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Speaker 2: had yesterday when with a new ordinance that is being discussed,
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Speaker 2: but it is going to allow the Omaha Firefighters to
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Speaker 2: once again pass the boot for MDA for multiple dystrophee.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting how this conversation went because I'm going to
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Speaker 2: give you all a little history on this and then
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Speaker 2: I would like to hear what you think about it.
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Speaker 2: But it was back in two thousand and nine when
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Speaker 2: I was on the city council. Now, the president of
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Speaker 2: Local three eighty five, which is the firefighters, is apparently
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Speaker 2: telling some of the council members that I got rid
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Speaker 2: of them being able to pass the boot when I
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Speaker 2: became mayor because they didn't support me when I ran
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Speaker 2: for election.
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Speaker 1: Not true.
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Speaker 2: Trevor Tower should know better than that. This all happened
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Speaker 2: in two thousand and nine when I was on the
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Speaker 2: city council. Jim Suttle was the mayor at that point,
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Speaker 2: but we were having a discussion in the legislative chamber
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Speaker 2: about the firefighters on city time being paid for by
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Speaker 2: the taxpayers, using taxpayer paid equipment to stand in the
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Speaker 2: roadways and at intersections and pass the boot from muscular dystrophee.
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Speaker 2: At that time, Steve Groz, who was an attorney, was
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Speaker 2: in the audience on another issue. Steve Groz now is
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Speaker 2: a judge with the Eighth Circuit, and he said.
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Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa. You cannot do this.
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Speaker 2: The City of Omaha cannot allow city employees, whether it
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Speaker 2: be firefighters or anybody else, on city time, meaning being
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Speaker 2: paid by the taxpayers to solicit money or to campaign
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Speaker 2: or to try to raise money for a nonprofit.
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Speaker 1: He said, you can't do that.
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Speaker 2: So Ben Gray, at the time on the city Council,
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Speaker 2: he was the that became really concerned about this, ask
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Speaker 2: for our city attorney, Paul Kratz at the time to
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Speaker 2: do a legal opinion.
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Speaker 1: And he said.
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Speaker 2: Ben Gray was quoted as saying, I don't know if
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Speaker 2: anybody ever asked if this was legal or not. So
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Speaker 2: I'm going to make the request. So Ben Gray made
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Speaker 2: the request for a legal opinion on that. Now I
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Speaker 2: want to say right now, muscular dystrophe is very important.
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Speaker 2: If you recall, Jerry Lewis used to do a lot of.
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Speaker 1: Phone calling.
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Speaker 2: They had phone banks and things calling for muscular dystrophe.
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Speaker 2: It's a terrible disease. It affects a lot of children.
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Speaker 2: But then what happened during that time. When this conversation started,
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Speaker 2: then other nonprofits started calling us at the city council
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Speaker 2: and at the Mayor's office saying, whoa wait a minute,
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Speaker 2: If now the firefighters can be out there using city
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Speaker 2: paid city paid time collecting from multiple diystrophee, which again
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Speaker 2: is a very horrible disease, What about the American Cancer Society,
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Speaker 2: More people are dying of cancer, the muscular dystrophee? What
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Speaker 2: about the American Diabetes Association, what about the American Heart Association.
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Speaker 2: Can we all have city employees on city time collect
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Speaker 2: for us and do fundraising for us? And so the
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Speaker 2: city attorney at that time wrote a legal opinion, Paul Kratz,
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Speaker 2: and he wrote that the use of city paid time
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Speaker 2: in this matter is prohibited by Nebraska's Accountability and Disclosure
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Speaker 2: Commission and does not comply with city ordinance and personnel policy.
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Speaker 2: The city has no authority to use city paid time
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Speaker 2: or equipment to promote the activities of private organizations, no
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Speaker 2: matter how worthy the cause, unless the activities fulfill the
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Speaker 2: city's mission and duties. So that was Paul Kratz's opinion
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Speaker 2: at the request of Ben Gray at the time. Now
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Speaker 2: we did tell the firefighters at that time, it's a
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Speaker 2: war because so please continue to do this, but do
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Speaker 2: it on your own time, do it on your off time.
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Speaker 2: And they declined. They said no, they didn't want to
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Speaker 2: do it on their private time. They only wanted to
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Speaker 2: do it if they could get paid doing it. So
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Speaker 2: this caused a lot of ruckus between the city council
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Speaker 2: at the time and the firefighters and the firefighter union.
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Speaker 2: Now apparently there is and this has been since two
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Speaker 2: thousand and nine, not since Gene Snothert was mayor. Now
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Speaker 2: apparently there's a new ordinance to consider that allows and
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Speaker 2: this is what I want our listeners to give their
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Speaker 2: opinion about.
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Speaker 1: The new ordinance.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't want to just address the firefighters because they're asking
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Speaker 2: again to do this again, But it allows all fourteen
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Speaker 2: city departments to engage in five fundraising efforts throughout the year,
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Speaker 2: meaning there could be up to seventy fundraising efforts for
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Speaker 2: nonprofits by city employees that are being paid by the cities.
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Speaker 2: I mean you would by the city. You would almost
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Speaker 2: have to create a new department to handle fundraising if
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Speaker 2: this was going on, this could be up to seventy
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Speaker 2: fundraising efforts for all fourteen city departments, and there in
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Speaker 2: this new ordinance there was no limit on the number
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Speaker 2: of employees per department or the number of hours spent.
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Speaker 2: There wasn't any limits on that. So listeners, literally that
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Speaker 2: could mean by this new ordinance that the entire public
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Speaker 2: Works department could take the day off because there was
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Speaker 2: no limitations on time to do fundraising for a private organization.
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Speaker 2: Now to me, this does not seem what taxpayer dollars
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Speaker 2: should be used for. Again, all of these fundraising efforts
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Speaker 2: and these nonprofits are important. I can't say that I
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Speaker 2: would pick one more important than the other. So I
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Speaker 2: can't say that I think that the firefighters should be
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Speaker 2: able to do and nobody else do anything else. But now,
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Speaker 2: when you're opening up to everything, this is taxpayer dollars
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Speaker 2: that were paying city employees while they are on city
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Speaker 2: time and on duty to do fundraising for private nonprofits.
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Speaker 2: I would be opposed to this. I was back then
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Speaker 2: when I was on the city council. Again, it had
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Speaker 2: nothing to do with because the firefighters didn't support me
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Speaker 2: that I took this option for them to do this
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Speaker 2: to pass the boot away from this them. It didn't
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Speaker 2: have anything to do with it at all. Really, the
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Speaker 2: legal opinion again was asked by Councilman Ben Gray at
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Speaker 2: the time, and we were told that it was not
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Speaker 2: legal for them to do it. We were told that
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Speaker 2: they could get their own t shirts printed and say
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Speaker 2: firefighters for MDA, They could stand in the middle of
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Speaker 2: the intersections, they could collect, but they could not use
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Speaker 2: a big fire truck out there, and they could not
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Speaker 2: do it on paid time. So this has been an
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Speaker 2: effect since two thousand and nine right now, and now
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Speaker 2: they're trying to get this again so that they could
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Speaker 2: do this again. But along with that, I guess when
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Speaker 2: the ordinance, the new ordinance was written that is being
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Speaker 2: considered now, it was well, let's not just address firefighters,
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Speaker 2: let's say all city departments can do this, and basically
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Speaker 2: there's no limitations at all. I would be totally against this.
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Speaker 4: Very interesting, Gene, what do you think about this? For
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Speaker 4: zero two, five, five, eight, eleven ten, we're gonna go
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Speaker 4: to the phone lines. We've got a few people in
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Speaker 4: the queue here. Kyle, you're up first live on kfa
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Speaker 4: B with Jean's author.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Hi, thank you, Hi, Thanks Beers. I appreciate
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Speaker 5: I want to I appreciate all your years of service
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Speaker 5: for us. I was at a question I was curious
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Speaker 5: about how you met Tom Warren, how you decided to
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Speaker 5: choose him as your chiefest staff. Good morning, huh oh
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Speaker 5: chief of staff?
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Speaker 2: Okay, you kind of went out for a second there.
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Speaker 2: Tom Warren is my chief of staff. How I chose him,
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Speaker 2: how I knew him?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: How And if you think he voted for you.
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Speaker 5: And if you think that it's curious that he switched
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Speaker 5: over to John Ewing's cheap of staff.
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Speaker 1: Curious to me too.
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Speaker 2: I met Tom Warren when he was police chief when
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Speaker 2: I first moved to Omaha. My husband at the time, Joe,
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Speaker 2: He was a trauma surgeon, but he was also the
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Speaker 2: medical director of the Omaha Fire Department, and he did
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Speaker 2: do quite a bit of public speaking about public safety.
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Speaker 2: And I remember there was an event that both Chief
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Speaker 2: Tom Warren and my husband spoke at at UNO that
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Speaker 2: I went to, and I think that was the first
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Speaker 2: time I really sat and was able to talk to him.
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Speaker 2: And then through the years I didn't know him that well,
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Speaker 2: but I knew he was the president and CEO of
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Speaker 2: the Urban League and what my first real interaction as
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Speaker 2: mayor with him is the mayor, and the city council
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Speaker 2: appoints the MECCA Board, which is the metropolitan Entertainment authority
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Speaker 2: that runs city on prop Arena, Convention Center, the ballpark
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Speaker 2: in the Riverfront parks now, but anyway, it was my turn.
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Speaker 2: The city council and the mayor takes turns appointing the
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Speaker 2: Mecca Board. And I was trying to figure out somebody
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Speaker 2: to appoint to the Mecca Board that I thought was
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Speaker 2: well known, was active in the community, maybe wasn't doing
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Speaker 2: as much as they used to do. And I thought
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Speaker 2: about Tom Warren and I called him and I asked
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Speaker 2: him if he would be interested in serving on the
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Speaker 2: Mecca Board, and he thought about it for a day
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Speaker 2: and he said yes he would, and so I appointed
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Speaker 2: him to the Mechaboard and he was doing a good
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Speaker 2: job there. And then my chief of staff when I
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Speaker 2: first became mayor was Marty Blick, who was fabulous. Marty
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Speaker 2: Bilick was Tim Dunning's chief deputy with the Omaha Sheriff's
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Speaker 2: Department or Douglas County Sheriff's Department, not Omaha Douglas County.
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Speaker 2: And Marty Bilick was my chief of staff for the
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Speaker 2: first eight years I was mayor, and because Marty used
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Speaker 2: to be with the Sheriff's department, he had a vast
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Speaker 2: knowledge of public safety and he really helped me with
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Speaker 2: a lot of public safety issues. After my second term,
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Speaker 2: Marty Bilick told me he wanted to go ahead and
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Speaker 2: retire full time. His son was doing construction work. He
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Speaker 2: wanted to help his son, et cetera. And I thought, now,
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Speaker 2: who else could I appoint that would replace what Marty
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Speaker 2: brought to the table and a knowledge of public safety
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Speaker 2: and the knowledge and a priority to make Omaha a
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Speaker 2: safer city. And I thought about Tom, and I thought,
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Speaker 2: you know, he's a former police chief, he's been on
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Speaker 2: the Mecca board. He likes serving, and so I asked
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Speaker 2: Tom Warren if he would be my chiefest staff. And
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Speaker 2: he thought about it for a day or two and
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Speaker 2: called me back and said yes he would. So I
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Speaker 2: thought he did a good job for me for the
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Speaker 2: for the eight years, the last for four years. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it was Marty Bilick for eight years and then Tom
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Speaker 2: for four I thought he did a really good job.
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Speaker 2: But I did know that he was very very good
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Speaker 2: old friends with John Ewing, And when John Ewing decided
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Speaker 2: to run for mayor. You know, I just I really
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Speaker 2: didn't know which way Tom Warren was going to go.
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Speaker 2: I really didn't. And so he decided after the election
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Speaker 2: that he was going to be John Ewing's chief of staff. Now,
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Speaker 2: he notified me Tom Warren the morning after the election
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Speaker 2: with a text message. That's how he notified me. And
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Speaker 2: he did tell me with that text message that he
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Speaker 2: did not know anything about it, that John Ewing had
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Speaker 2: just called him after the election. He wasn't taught, he said.
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Speaker 2: He claims he did not talk to John Ewing about
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Speaker 2: it before the election. However, on election night. I know
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Speaker 2: Cindy Gonzalez was covering John Ewing's election on election night,
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Speaker 2: and John Ewing said multiple times that night, right after
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Speaker 2: the results came in, that Tom Warren was going to
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Speaker 2: be his chief of staff. So it appeared to me
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Speaker 2: that they had already discussed it.
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Speaker 3: Interests.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna keep maybe on a similar line. Here, Tann
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Speaker 4: and Tennis. Here you go, you're live with Jean's author.
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Speaker 8: Good morning, No, Hi, Jane, are you there?
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 9: Hi?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Okay, good morning.
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Speaker 10: You know I heard that mayor of Omaha last night
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Speaker 10: on the news and he was disparaging our country and
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Speaker 10: saying that people are losing their rights and all of
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Speaker 10: these things. And I he you know, he was just
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Speaker 10: very just very down on America. And I just wonder
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Speaker 10: what you thought about that, and what rights are we losing?
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Speaker 2: I have no idea, I mean, I really don't. I
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Speaker 2: remembered John Ewing on election night being interviewed on MSNBC,
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Speaker 2: and he's sitting there saying I will fight Donald Trump,
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Speaker 2: and I will fight Ice and I will not allow
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Speaker 2: Ice in Omaha. And he was just going on a rant,
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Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, this is how you're starting out that.
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Speaker 2: It didn't sound really good to me. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what rights he is talking about.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: He came out with the statement the other day and
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Speaker 2: it had to do with the shootings that happened in
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Speaker 2: San Diego with the in the Islamic Center there, and
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Speaker 2: he made a statement about he was going to get
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Speaker 2: the chief of Police, Todd Schmater involved and the FBI involved.
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Speaker 2: Of course, he left out the Douglas County Sheriff. I
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Speaker 2: didn't hear he mentioned the Douglas County Sheriff for Aaron
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Speaker 2: Hansen at all. And he was going to get these
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Speaker 2: people together to encourage people if they saw any type
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Speaker 2: of discrimination against Muslims to come forward. And I'm thinking, well,
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Speaker 2: what about I mean, there's a lot of other issues
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Speaker 2: we have to deal with. I think the Jewish faith
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Speaker 2: right now is more in danger in being preyed upon,
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Speaker 2: it seems like then, than the Muslims are. So what
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Speaker 2: about the Jewish community? So I was really really confused
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Speaker 2: at why Maror Ewing would come out with a statement
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Speaker 2: like this, And then he turns around and says, but
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Speaker 2: this is going to be the year of the neighbor
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Speaker 2: and we're just gonna be neighborly and we're just gonna
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Speaker 2: go hug it out and we're gonna love each other.
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Speaker 2: And do you know the hotline? The Mayor's hotline was
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Speaker 2: one thing that I really tried to improve a lot.
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Speaker 2: Do you know that the over the twelve years I
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Speaker 2: was mayor, the number one issue that would come into
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Speaker 2: the hotline or neighbor problems. I mean they were either
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Speaker 2: noisy neighbors, that dog is barking, there's a cars parked
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Speaker 2: in the yard, there's trash outside, One thing after another
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Speaker 2: after another. They were neighbor issues. And that's our job
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Speaker 2: to help solve those neighbor issues, not just say oh,
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Speaker 2: we're gonna be neighborly and we're gonna hug each other
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Speaker 2: and everything's gonna be okay. I have no idea. I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is a question for Mayor Ewing to say, how
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Speaker 2: are we losing our rights? And the answer is not
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Speaker 2: just let's go and hug it out.
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Speaker 3: Yes, this is for a little bit of context here.
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Speaker 4: This was a story that Channel six did last night
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Speaker 4: talking about a Malcolm X memorial foundation, the plans and
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Speaker 4: all of this sort of stuff.
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Speaker 3: And the quote comes the.
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Speaker 4: Transcript on the story has it wrong because Mary Ewing
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Speaker 4: says it in the video. Rights are being taken away,
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Speaker 4: Voting opportunities are being diminished, electoral opportunities are being diminished.
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Speaker 4: So we've got work to do in this country. Now,
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Speaker 4: I'm curious your opinion on that, you know, because a
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Speaker 4: little bit about the quote. But this is very common
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Speaker 4: democratic talking point right now. You see all of this
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Speaker 4: going talking about the race based redistricting of all these
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Speaker 4: counties and just in general saying that there's some sort
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Speaker 4: of race based discrimination going on in regards to this
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Speaker 4: sort of stuff. And it would be at an event
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Speaker 4: like this featuring Malcolm X. It just feels like it's
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Speaker 4: something we could have probably expected.
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Speaker 2: I think mir Ewing needs to explain himself, and he
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Speaker 2: needs to say why he is saying the things that
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Speaker 2: he did. He needs to explain why he thinks our
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Speaker 2: voting opportunities are being threatened. They certainly aren't in Douglas County.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can vote for thirty something days in Douglas.
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Speaker 1: County with the mail in ballots.
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Speaker 2: Are the electoral college when he's talking about that in
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Speaker 2: electoral votes, what he's talking about is he wants to
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Speaker 2: maintain this blue dot. And once again, when you say
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Speaker 2: a city is blue or red or purple, it used
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Speaker 2: to just reflect is it the majority Democrats, is it
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Speaker 2: a majority Republicans which are red, Democrats are blue?
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Speaker 1: Or is it purple? And it's just a good mix.
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Speaker 2: Now the blue dot has become symbolic of the Democrat agenda,
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Speaker 2: you know. It's it's like, we have to maintain this
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Speaker 2: blue dot, we have to maintain this one electoral vote
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Speaker 2: in our area here. So I really don't know what
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Speaker 2: he's what he's talking about. And I think the one
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Speaker 2: thing I would suggest for anybody is to hold your
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Speaker 2: elected officials accountable. If they say things and they promise things,
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Speaker 2: then ask them, how are you going to accomplish this?
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Speaker 2: And are you and I want to see you deliver
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Speaker 2: on it if you're promising it. You know, I hate
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Speaker 2: to just dwell on Mary Ewing, but Mary Ewing did
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Speaker 2: promise an awful lot of things in the campaign, an
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Speaker 2: awful lot of things, from the police will pay pay
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Speaker 2: lesson to their pension, to the streets and Elkhorn are
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Speaker 2: going to be paved without any cost to them, to
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Speaker 2: no more sinkholes. To I mean, there was one thing
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Speaker 2: after another after another. He's going to come up with
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Speaker 2: a new recipe for concrete for the roads.
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's fine. You set all that during the campaign.
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Speaker 2: Then I think now the voters and the citizens of
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Speaker 2: Omaha need to say, Okay, deliver.
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Speaker 3: But Gene, it's the year of the neighbor. Okay, new conversation.
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Speaker 4: Here your favorite. Here, we're going to go to the
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Speaker 4: phone lines. Dave, thank you for holding on patiently. You're
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Speaker 4: alive now. A Jeans author on KFAB.
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Speaker 8: Good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 11: I'm sure do enjoy your show in the morning.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 11: I have a comment and then a question. They both
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Speaker 11: have to do with the trolley. I grew up in
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Speaker 11: San Diego before there was a trolley. I was there
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Speaker 11: when it was proposed, talked about, executed, and I listened
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Speaker 11: to the people and the concerns and stuff today, and
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Speaker 11: it's just like it's taking me back to the eighties
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Speaker 11: and stuff back in San Diego when they were going
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Speaker 11: through their growing pain. Yes, and I know.
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Speaker 12: Pup on businesses and.
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Speaker 6: People.
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Speaker 12: I think we get used to, well, we've always done
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Speaker 12: it this way, But this is a four thinking project.
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Speaker 10: I'll never see the one here.
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Speaker 11: In Omaha completed. I just won't live long enough. But
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Speaker 11: to watch what they accomplished in San Diego and the
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Speaker 11: beauty of the system and the convenience, I am excited
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Speaker 11: for the people here. I agree, well, it's hard to
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Speaker 11: think about tomorrow, but long term, this is going to
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Speaker 11: be a tremendous opportunity for the city and I'm excited to.
20:36
Speaker 12: See it coming.
20:37
Speaker 2: I appreciate your comments, and obviously i'm the biggest proponent.
20:41
Speaker 2: I think of the streetcar, and I agree the streetcar
20:43
Speaker 2: should be done in twenty twenty eight, So I hope
20:46
Speaker 2: both you and I are around to write on it.
20:50
Speaker 2: But to give you an example too. I mean, I've
20:53
Speaker 2: been to San Diego, I've met with the mayor there.
20:55
Speaker 2: I know what exactly what you're talking about. But our
20:57
Speaker 2: closest neighbor is in Kansas City, and theirs is so popular.
21:02
Speaker 2: They are expanding it right now because so many people
21:06
Speaker 2: ride it. When it was being built, the same things
21:09
Speaker 2: were happening. People were saying, oh, you know, it's ruining
21:12
Speaker 2: the business, and the construction is causing a lot of
21:16
Speaker 2: inconvenience and it's just terrible. But now that it's up
21:19
Speaker 2: and running, people love it, and I feel like they
21:22
Speaker 2: will here too. You know, the proof is in what
21:26
Speaker 2: is happening already too. Because we originally projected that there
21:30
Speaker 2: would be about two billion dollars worth of new developments
21:33
Speaker 2: in the first fifteen years of the streetcar first fifteen years,
21:38
Speaker 2: there's already one and a half billion of new development
21:42
Speaker 2: along the streetcar line. Now they have increased that new
21:45
Speaker 2: development to four billion over the first fifteen years. That
21:50
Speaker 2: is good for the whole city. That creates jobs, construction jobs,
21:54
Speaker 2: new businesses come in, and when all of this is
21:57
Speaker 2: happening in around the streetcar, it's good for all of
22:01
Speaker 2: Omaha because you know, the only way to really reduce
22:04
Speaker 2: taxes and to keep them low is to broaden your
22:07
Speaker 2: tax base, and that is exactly what is going to
22:10
Speaker 2: happen with this development. We did a PowerPoint Steve Jensen
22:14
Speaker 2: and I who was the former planning director, but we
22:17
Speaker 2: did a PowerPoint when I was still mayor about the streetcar,
22:21
Speaker 2: and we gave this PowerPoint we figured to probably at
22:24
Speaker 2: least six thousand people. And one of the slides that
22:29
Speaker 2: we showed was Denver in nineteen seventy six, and it
22:33
Speaker 2: showed it was an aerial and it showed downtown Denver
22:36
Speaker 2: with a few big buildings and lots and lots and
22:39
Speaker 2: lots of surface parking. Then it showed Denver and twenty
22:42
Speaker 2: twenty two and every bit of that surface parking was
22:45
Speaker 2: taken up with new buildings in businesses and residences because
22:50
Speaker 2: they had a streetcar and they had more public transportation.
22:54
Speaker 2: So we studied cities all over the country, and in
22:58
Speaker 2: every city we studied, the development around the streetcar line
23:01
Speaker 2: surpassed what was originally estimated. So I do think I
23:06
Speaker 2: feel very very confident that this inconvenience now is definitely happening,
23:13
Speaker 2: And I understand the real stress that these businesses are
23:17
Speaker 2: going are facing downtown. But when it is done, I
23:21
Speaker 2: can almost guarantee you ninety nine point nine nine nine
23:24
Speaker 2: percent that it is going to be very successful and people.
23:28
Speaker 3: Will love it.
23:29
Speaker 4: The streetcar conversation doesn't stay away for too long. We're
23:33
Speaker 4: gonna go to break here. Get Fox News at the
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23:45
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23:46
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23:55
Speaker 2: And we are back. We were just in here talking
23:58
Speaker 2: to Chris Baker. He's not here. He's leaving now. He said,
24:02
Speaker 2: I'm not here, I'm out. So here we are back again,
24:06
Speaker 2: and Peyton, do we have another call?
24:09
Speaker 3: I do have a few things we can talk about that.
24:11
Speaker 1: I have something I want to talk about.
24:12
Speaker 3: Right, let's get let's get Let's get Doug on the line.
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Speaker 9: Here.
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Speaker 4: We'll get We'll hear Doug, and then we'll get to
24:17
Speaker 4: your conversation there, Jean, Doug, welcome in, Thanks for calling.
24:20
Speaker 4: You're live with Jean's author here on kfab.
24:22
Speaker 8: Hello, good morning, Thanks, good morning, ma'am. I met you once,
24:28
Speaker 8: but you won't remember me, so that's okay.
24:30
Speaker 2: Well, if I knocked on your door, I might remember you.
24:33
Speaker 2: I remember people when I.
24:34
Speaker 8: No, no, we met, we met in a bank.
24:38
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, But this ordinance, yes.
24:44
Speaker 8: I don't care if they have the ordinance. But here's
24:46
Speaker 8: the thing. No more than ten percent. They have to
24:50
Speaker 8: be either doing it on their own time or taking
24:55
Speaker 8: paid time off. They want to get paid for it,
24:58
Speaker 8: They earned their paid off, they want to use that
25:01
Speaker 8: to do that. That's fine with me. But they should
25:04
Speaker 8: not be doing any of that on the people's time.
25:07
Speaker 8: And no more than ten percent of their people should
25:10
Speaker 8: be gone any day. I think it's a policy most anywhere.
25:15
Speaker 1: I agree with you, and this ordinance there is no limit.
25:19
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you if we're going to do if they're
25:21
Speaker 6: going to do this, and I would gladly go to
25:24
Speaker 6: that meeting, But then i'd get too mad because I
25:28
Speaker 6: get really perturbed when people think that they can melt
25:33
Speaker 6: the taxpayer to do whatever they want. And that's not right.
25:38
Speaker 8: But if they want to take their pride to pay
25:40
Speaker 8: time off, that's fine.
25:42
Speaker 1: And I would agree with you.
25:43
Speaker 8: They're getting paid.
25:44
Speaker 2: That's and that's what we did back in two thousand
25:46
Speaker 2: and nine. We said, you know, MDA is A is
25:50
Speaker 2: a worthy cause, and if you want to still do it,
25:54
Speaker 2: please do it because it's so important to all of you,
25:57
Speaker 2: but do it on your own time or you're paid
25:59
Speaker 2: time off, because all of these other nonprofits are very
26:03
Speaker 2: worthy too, and wonder if they all say and they did.
26:05
Speaker 2: They started calling saying, what about American cancer? What about
26:08
Speaker 2: a juvenile diabetes? What about all of these other nonprofits?
26:12
Speaker 2: Can the city employees be paid to solicit into collect
26:15
Speaker 2: money for us too? And the answer is no, you
26:18
Speaker 2: should not be doing that when you are on taxpayer time.
26:22
Speaker 2: I feel the same way you do, and I appreciate
26:24
Speaker 2: your call.
26:25
Speaker 3: Very good, Jeane.
26:26
Speaker 4: There's a something that was really big in the news
26:28
Speaker 4: with the grain silos last week.
26:31
Speaker 1: It was oh yeah, I like talking about it.
26:33
Speaker 3: Let's hear about this.
26:33
Speaker 2: This is the grain elevators, the big ones that are
26:37
Speaker 2: on I eighty near thirty fifth Street, between I eight
26:41
Speaker 2: and the forty second Street exit on there. Yes, those ones,
26:44
Speaker 2: those ones, And you know, we started working on this
26:49
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three.
26:51
Speaker 1: I was mayor.
26:52
Speaker 2: Then a local group called light development came in and
26:57
Speaker 2: they had purchased those grain elevators, working with Daily the architects,
27:01
Speaker 2: and they had planned to transfer that area into a
27:06
Speaker 2: big multi family development and it was really super super cool.
27:11
Speaker 2: Of course, with any development like that, it takes a
27:14
Speaker 2: while to finalize it and to get it approved, to
27:17
Speaker 2: get the zoning, to get it rezoned, because the planning
27:21
Speaker 2: Board needed to approve an amendment to the master plan
27:24
Speaker 2: to change the zoning. Its zoned right now industrial and
27:28
Speaker 2: it had to be changed the high density residential. They
27:31
Speaker 2: had to do the plat, They had to do an
27:36
Speaker 2: overlay in that area. They had to figure out how
27:38
Speaker 2: they're going to demo those things and take them down.
27:41
Speaker 2: If they were going to demo the silo's closest to
27:43
Speaker 2: the interstate, there was a big question woe the interstate
27:46
Speaker 2: have to be shut down.
27:47
Speaker 1: So there was.
27:48
Speaker 2: Quite a bit of work that needed to be done.
27:51
Speaker 2: But that area, as everybody knows, it's old. Those silos
27:55
Speaker 2: were built in nineteen fifty two. They stopped being used
28:00
Speaker 2: in about two thousand, so they've been sitting there, not
28:03
Speaker 2: used for twenty six years now. And if they're a
28:07
Speaker 2: real target also for graffiti, for vandalism and for trespassers.
28:12
Speaker 2: So when we knew somebody was going to come in
28:14
Speaker 2: there bottom and was going to do something with them,
28:17
Speaker 2: I think the city was very, very excited. And now
28:19
Speaker 2: it looks like it is going to move forward. There's
28:23
Speaker 2: going to be about two hundred and twenty five apartments
28:26
Speaker 2: built there, there's going to be green space, there's going
28:29
Speaker 2: to be some townhouses, and there's going to be at
28:32
Speaker 2: least two hundred stalls for austreet parking and so several
28:36
Speaker 2: of the middle silos are going to be partially demolished,
28:41
Speaker 2: and then I think the two that are closest to
28:44
Speaker 2: the interstate are going to stand there. There's going to
28:48
Speaker 2: have swimming pools. It's going to be a really neat development.
28:51
Speaker 2: And guess what it's going to be called the silos?
28:54
Speaker 3: Well that's fitting.
28:55
Speaker 4: Yes, did you ever climb around in there and sneak
28:58
Speaker 4: in there and run around with the flashlight and explore?
29:00
Speaker 1: Absolutely not?
29:01
Speaker 4: But did you Anyways, let's go to the phone lines.
29:05
Speaker 4: Oh we lost Joe? I could we lost Joe here?
29:10
Speaker 4: But let me just say one more thing. Who in
29:12
Speaker 4: the heck would crawl on the top of those and
29:14
Speaker 4: paint all that graffiti on there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, those things are big and tall.
29:18
Speaker 3: You must be fun at parties.
29:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I am. I'm not hanging off a grain style,
29:23
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that.
29:25
Speaker 2: But anyway, I wanted to let everybody know that this
29:27
Speaker 2: is It was in the news a couple of weeks ago,
29:29
Speaker 2: but again, this is something we started on in twenty
29:32
Speaker 2: twenty three, and I am so glad to see it
29:34
Speaker 2: moving forward.
29:35
Speaker 4: Joe had a little bit of an interesting question here,
29:37
Speaker 4: going back to the firefighters and what they're doing on
29:40
Speaker 4: quote taxpayer time. He said, Okay, I hear what you're
29:45
Speaker 4: saying about the ordinance, but is this any different than
29:49
Speaker 4: if they're going to the grocery store they roll up
29:51
Speaker 4: with their fire truck and there's six to eight of
29:54
Speaker 4: them there.
29:55
Speaker 3: Well, what's the difference, Gene, Oh.
29:56
Speaker 1: Big difference.
29:57
Speaker 2: And that is when they and I brought this up
30:00
Speaker 2: even when I was on the city council, because I
30:03
Speaker 2: had a lot of people that would say, you know,
30:05
Speaker 2: I went into Whole Foods today and there was a
30:07
Speaker 2: big rig out front idling, and I thought, oh my gosh,
30:10
Speaker 2: what's going on in there? And they were with their
30:12
Speaker 2: shopping cart shopping, and I would say, okay, why are
30:15
Speaker 2: we doing this. The reason they do this is they
30:18
Speaker 2: are on duty, and they are on call, and if
30:21
Speaker 2: they have to stop and get their groceries, if a
30:24
Speaker 2: call comes in for a fire or for an accident
30:27
Speaker 2: or whatever, they just drop everything and go. So it
30:32
Speaker 2: then it made more sense to me to say they
30:34
Speaker 2: are on duty. They're ready to go at you know,
30:38
Speaker 2: at a drop of a hat at any minute. Now,
30:40
Speaker 2: if they get a call, they will leave, and so
30:43
Speaker 2: they are just actually they're just trying to get their
30:45
Speaker 2: groceries so that they could have their lunch. And when
30:47
Speaker 2: they have their lunch, they are still on call. And
30:49
Speaker 2: when they have their dinner, they are still on call.
30:51
Speaker 2: So they get called back and forth all the time.
30:54
Speaker 2: So it's just their method of doing what they are doing.
31:00
Speaker 2: And still they are on duty, but it allows them
31:03
Speaker 2: to stay in the area that they cover and to
31:06
Speaker 2: get to a scene as quick as they possibly can.
31:09
Speaker 4: And we're going to go to the talkback. I'm glad
31:11
Speaker 4: we got one. Thank you, Luanne. And there's an email
31:14
Speaker 4: because I got my computer turned on. Here we go,
31:16
Speaker 4: Thank you Lwyn for the talkback.
31:17
Speaker 13: Hi, this is Luyne and I want to know why
31:20
Speaker 13: the guard, the yard waste pickup has to start so
31:25
Speaker 13: much later. I think it should start middle of April.
31:29
Speaker 13: I'd like Gene to ask to answer that.
31:32
Speaker 2: I will answer that, and that is, you know, that's
31:35
Speaker 2: a decision that's made by Public Works because we actually
31:38
Speaker 2: just started. You know, it hasn't been that long that
31:41
Speaker 2: we have been doing a spring cleanup and a fall
31:44
Speaker 2: clean up. But a lot of times April it's there's
31:47
Speaker 2: snow on the ground still in April, and I think
31:50
Speaker 2: right now because of the storms, there's a lot more
31:53
Speaker 2: debris in people's yards now and they're like, hey, I
31:56
Speaker 2: got to get this all picked up, and the need
31:59
Speaker 2: is out there now. But basically they have just looked
32:02
Speaker 2: historically when they were pretty sure that the snow would
32:06
Speaker 2: be off the ground, the ice would be melted, and
32:08
Speaker 2: that there would be the big that most people would
32:11
Speaker 2: be cleaning up their yards and need that service. The
32:13
Speaker 2: fall is usually scheduled pretty much at the right time,
32:17
Speaker 2: when the leaves start falling and everything.
32:19
Speaker 1: But I think this spring, it.
32:21
Speaker 2: Seems like it would be helpful if it would start
32:24
Speaker 2: a bit earlier because of the storms that we had
32:26
Speaker 2: in the debris that's out there. But like I said,
32:29
Speaker 2: usually if we had started it in the middle of April,
32:31
Speaker 2: we might not have that much to pick up.
32:33
Speaker 4: Well, it was a weird year because there was a
32:35
Speaker 4: few days in February.
32:37
Speaker 3: Where it was like seventy degrees.
32:39
Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's been.
32:40
Speaker 2: The weather's been just nutty lately. So I, like I said,
32:43
Speaker 2: last Friday, I was at my grandson's school for field
32:46
Speaker 2: day and it was ninety six degrees and today it's
32:49
Speaker 2: in the forties. It's just crazy. But that's that's Nebraska,
32:54
Speaker 2: and we love Nebraska.
32:56
Speaker 3: Yes it is.
32:56
Speaker 4: I have an interesting talk back here, you know, like
33:00
Speaker 4: you say in the opening of your show, Local, State, National, m.
33:07
Speaker 3: Let's hear about let's hear what this one?
33:09
Speaker 9: Hey, good morning. This is completely off the top of you.
33:12
Speaker 9: So you could ask anything, anything national, whatever. Whatever happened
33:16
Speaker 9: to them investigating all the golden Fort Knox. Remember when
33:19
Speaker 9: Trump was like, I'm going to go to Fort Knox
33:21
Speaker 9: and make sure all the gold's there that they say
33:22
Speaker 9: is there, and that was a big story for all
33:24
Speaker 9: that it just kind of went away. So I was
33:27
Speaker 9: just curious, you guys know anything about if they ever
33:29
Speaker 9: verified the gold was at Fort Knox or if that's
33:31
Speaker 9: a planned vacation or something. Anyway, God bless Kenn.
33:36
Speaker 1: You know, thanks for the question.
33:38
Speaker 2: I honestly don't have an answer about investigating Fort Knox.
33:43
Speaker 1: I mean, we do know now that Gosh, I forgot what.
33:48
Speaker 3: The year was.
33:49
Speaker 2: But our currency is not backed by gold anymore. It's
33:53
Speaker 2: just backed by the full faith and credit of the government,
33:57
Speaker 2: and so it's it's just kind of printed in there
34:00
Speaker 2: and are made in there. But we we don't use
34:03
Speaker 2: the gold as a backup anymore. But I do, honest
34:07
Speaker 2: to gosh, I don't remember Trump saying he was going
34:09
Speaker 2: to go investigate the gold in Fort Knox's I remember
34:15
Speaker 2: this really well, good for you because I sure don't.
34:19
Speaker 2: But that's something that I might do a little research
34:21
Speaker 2: on then to see what's going on there. But as again,
34:24
Speaker 2: as we know, our currency is not backed by the
34:28
Speaker 2: gold anymore.
34:29
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm trying to see that they have. They
34:32
Speaker 4: It says four and seventy five tons t O N
34:38
Speaker 4: N E s of gold in Fort Knox.
34:43
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. It's about of gold.
34:45
Speaker 4: About four hundred and thirty billion, half of the United
34:50
Speaker 4: States United States Treasury.
34:54
Speaker 2: This is an interesting topic. Then, yeah, we should explore
34:57
Speaker 2: this more.
34:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, very interesting. Thank you for the question there, Ken.
35:02
Speaker 2: And you know, another topic that I just wanted to
35:05
Speaker 2: bring up a little bit because it goes along with
35:07
Speaker 2: what we were talking about about the streetcar and the
35:11
Speaker 2: one caller said that he thinks it's going to be
35:13
Speaker 2: good for the city. A lot of other people hate
35:16
Speaker 2: the streetcar, the idea of it, but I still will
35:20
Speaker 2: own it, I said, I am one of the biggest proponents.
35:23
Speaker 2: But let's let's talk a little bit about There was
35:25
Speaker 2: a Midland's Voices article written on Sunday, May third, and
35:31
Speaker 2: it was written by the Mayor John Ewing and Heath Mellow,
35:34
Speaker 2: who is currently President and CEO of the Greater Rama
35:37
Speaker 2: Chamber of Commerce. But you know, it goes right into
35:40
Speaker 2: this goes along with what I was saying while ago
35:42
Speaker 2: to hold hold your mirror accountable. Is Mary Ewing is
35:47
Speaker 2: one hundred percent behind the streetcar and the the title
35:51
Speaker 2: of this article is Momentum building as Omaha's economic development grows,
35:57
Speaker 2: and a lot is said about it is being driven
36:00
Speaker 2: by the streetcar.
36:01
Speaker 1: It's transformative.
36:04
Speaker 2: It is the economic engine to drive an estimated four
36:07
Speaker 2: billion in real estate development in the urban cores over
36:10
Speaker 2: the next fifteen years, which I just said about it
36:13
Speaker 2: twenty minutes ago. And it just goes on and on
36:16
Speaker 2: and on about talking about this great momentum that we
36:20
Speaker 2: have in Omaha. It goes on to say streetcar, It
36:23
Speaker 2: goes on to talk about Epley Airport, It goes on
36:26
Speaker 2: to talk about a lot of other things that are
36:31
Speaker 2: going on in our area planning department, about them doing
36:37
Speaker 2: a new master plan. You know, all of this stuff
36:40
Speaker 2: that they talk about which makes Omaha momentum moving forward.
36:45
Speaker 2: But I just have to comment, none of this is new.
36:48
Speaker 2: None of this is new. The streetcar marry youing campaigned
36:53
Speaker 2: bitterly against it, Well.
36:54
Speaker 4: He doesn't have to wear the criticism of it now, people.
36:58
Speaker 4: I mean the name streetcar stouthor doesn't didn't just come
37:02
Speaker 4: out of the earth like an earthworm in the rain.
37:04
Speaker 3: I mean you wearing that now.
37:06
Speaker 4: I also would hope that when it does turn around
37:09
Speaker 4: and it's completed and people see how well it's working,
37:12
Speaker 4: I would also help that you would wear the praise.
37:14
Speaker 3: Well, I hope that you would wear the praise. But
37:16
Speaker 3: we'll see. The time will tell you.
37:17
Speaker 2: We'll see, time will tell. But I mean it it
37:20
Speaker 2: is curious that this article was written and signed by
37:24
Speaker 2: Mayor John Ewing, and he was so against it. He
37:27
Speaker 2: called it the folly trolley, he called it the trolley
37:29
Speaker 2: to nowhere. He criticized and criticized, and now he's one
37:33
Speaker 2: hundred percent for it and claiming that we have all
37:36
Speaker 2: this great momentum growing in Omaha because of that. I
37:39
Speaker 2: agree we do, and I am very happy that John
37:43
Speaker 2: Ewing now is supporting the streetcar and saying that this
37:47
Speaker 2: is causing as a result of all of this great
37:51
Speaker 2: momentum we have going on. But obviously the expansion of
37:55
Speaker 2: Eppley Airfield almost a billion dollars, that has been going
37:58
Speaker 2: on way before the new administration. When we talk about
38:02
Speaker 2: the Planning Department doing a new master plan that we
38:05
Speaker 2: started years ago, that was already underway, and so I
38:09
Speaker 2: am glad that he is supporting to continue the momentum
38:14
Speaker 2: that we started. But again, I think you you need
38:19
Speaker 2: to hold not only your mayor, but all of your
38:21
Speaker 2: government officials accountable for what they said, what they promised,
38:25
Speaker 2: and what they are going to do. And I always
38:28
Speaker 2: have said you need to take credit where credit is due,
38:32
Speaker 2: and you should not be taking credit when it was
38:35
Speaker 2: the result of the actions of someone else and just
38:39
Speaker 2: hope people don't notice.
38:41
Speaker 3: I want to get.
38:41
Speaker 4: Chris here in on the phone lines. You're live now
38:44
Speaker 4: with Jean Stoth. Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
38:47
Speaker 6: Good morning.
38:49
Speaker 7: So I have two kids in college and I saw
38:52
Speaker 7: a study that over thirteen percent of graduating students from
38:55
Speaker 7: college Nebraska leave.
38:56
Speaker 6: In the state.
38:57
Speaker 7: My question is do you think that's tied to opportunity
39:02
Speaker 7: or economics or housing costs? So, I mean, especially I'd
39:07
Speaker 7: love my kids to stick around, but just wanting to
39:09
Speaker 7: get your thoughts on how you see it happening in
39:12
Speaker 7: the state of Nebraska, especially in cities like Omaha and Lincoln
39:14
Speaker 7: where the majority of the kids are.
39:16
Speaker 1: You know, and they use that term brain drain a
39:19
Speaker 1: lot too. And you know, if you talk.
39:21
Speaker 2: To the president of Creighton University, Father Daniel Hendrickson, he
39:25
Speaker 2: calls it brain gain, and he is saying they are
39:27
Speaker 2: not They're Creighton students, are not the graduates packing up
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Speaker 2: and leaving right after they graduate. And what I looked
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Speaker 2: at a lot when I was mayor is not only
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Speaker 2: the young people, but look at the retirees. Do we
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Speaker 2: have the environment in this city and in Douglas County
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Speaker 2: and in the state of Nebraska, that our young people
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Speaker 2: and our young talent want to stay here and that
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Speaker 2: our retirees are able to afford to stay here too.
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Speaker 2: And that's the one thing that I really focused on
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Speaker 2: was the development of the urban core, because you say,
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Speaker 2: how do you keep your young people here and keep
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Speaker 2: them from moving away? Will you ask what are they
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Speaker 2: looking for? They're looking for urban living, They're looking for
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Speaker 2: affordable housing, They're looking for public transportation, entertainment, walkability, open spaces,
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Speaker 2: and that's all the things that we are doing in
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Speaker 2: our urban course. So hopefully this momentum will keep moving
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Speaker 2: forward and we'll keep on being that attractive city that
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Speaker 2: people want to stay in and people that our retirees
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Speaker 2: want to stay in. But that's up. It's for us today.
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Speaker 2: I want to thank you so much for spending this
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Speaker 2: hour with us. I will be out of town Taill. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I'm going out of town again and I'm loving every
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Speaker 2: minute of it. But I will be back Monday, June first.
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Speaker 2: So this is my last day. Going to go out
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Speaker 2: to Arizona for a little bit and then to Baltimore
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Speaker 2: for my husband's class reunion for his anesthesia class at
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Speaker 2: Johns Hopkins. So anywhere I'm going to be out and
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Speaker 2: we're going to have Chip Maxwell in. But I am
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Speaker 2: Jean Stothard, I'm the host of your show. And this
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