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$15 Minimum Wage · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: Yesterday we had Heath Melawan, who's the president CEO of
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Speaker 1: the Greater Omaha Chamber, and I thought of about one
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Speaker 1: hundred more things I wanted to talk to him about
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Speaker 1: after he left, But I thought it was just a
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Speaker 1: good review of how businesses are doing in Omaha and
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Speaker 1: what the Chamber is here for and what the Chamber
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Speaker 1: is accomplishing. But when you know, we were talking yesterday
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Speaker 1: and we talked about the streetcar a bit. You know,
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Speaker 1: they the street car actually came out of the Urban
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Speaker 1: Core Committee that came out of the Greater Omaha Chamber,
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Speaker 1: and the number one recommendation was the streetcar for the
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Speaker 1: urban Core and that is considered downtown in midtown. Now,
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Speaker 1: Scott was talking about the streetcar this morning negatively, but
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Speaker 1: talking about the congestion downtown. But you know, I've been
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Speaker 1: down to the College World Series, which I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about in a minute every day. I was down
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Speaker 1: there last night and I still love talking to people,
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Speaker 1: and the person sitting next to me I always talk
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Speaker 1: to because it's a different person every night, and they're
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Speaker 1: always from out of town, asking them their opinion, and
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Speaker 1: you know, you're sitting there in a stadium with twenty
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Speaker 1: four thousand plus people, and they are all having the
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Speaker 1: best time in Omaha. It just really feels good to
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Speaker 1: talk to these people and get their opinion on what
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Speaker 1: Omaha has to offer. I still hear the number one
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Speaker 1: comment is always, I feel so safe here, and it's
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Speaker 1: so clean here. They love the riverfront parks, they love
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Speaker 1: the luminarium, they love everything going on. They do recognize
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Speaker 1: that there's construction downtown with the streetcar the rails being
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Speaker 1: put in, but they know it's progress, and you know,
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Speaker 1: next year it's going to be different. In the year
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Speaker 1: after that, it'll be different too, as that project moves along.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not hearing a lot of complaints from people.
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Speaker 1: Of course I'm not talking to all twenty four thousand,
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Speaker 1: but I'm hearing a lot about people just enjoying what
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Speaker 1: they have here in Omaha. And thank goodness, we've had
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Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce weather so far, so good.
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Speaker 2: Everything's going well.
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Speaker 1: Last night, like I said, I was there and Georgia
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Speaker 1: beat Texas to zero. So Texas is going home today.
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Speaker 1: The one o'clock game is North Carolina versus West Virginia.
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Speaker 1: Six pm game Oklahoma versus Georgia. But you know, I
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Speaker 1: was just looking through some of the media and some
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Speaker 1: of the things that have come out over the College
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Speaker 1: World Series in the Omaha World Herald in another media
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Speaker 1: since the game started. And you know, the attendance is
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Speaker 1: one thing. It is just it seems like it goes
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Speaker 1: up almost every year. Dropped down a little bit last year.
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Speaker 1: But you know, on an average of about three hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty up to three hundred and almost four hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand people the attendance in the last say three or
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Speaker 1: four years to Omaha total for the College World Series.
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Speaker 1: And so I think that those are really really good numbers.
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Speaker 1: You can tell we fill up that stadium of twenty
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Speaker 1: four thousand every night and there's also standing room the world.
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Speaker 1: In the Omaha World Herald the other day, they had
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Speaker 1: a full page ad. If you haven't seen it, it
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Speaker 1: was in the sports section and it was on Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: so that was yesterday's But I love this picture, a
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Speaker 1: full page picture, and it was one of Alabama's players.
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Speaker 3: It was J. T.
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Speaker 1: Blackwood, and it shows him after they were eliminated and
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Speaker 1: they will be going home, but he's just bent down
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Speaker 1: on his knees with a little glass jar and he's
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Speaker 1: scooping up a bit of dirt from Charles schwab Feelds
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Speaker 1: after they were eliminated, just as a remembrance that he's
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Speaker 1: taken home. Just a little dirt from the Greatest Show
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Speaker 1: on Dirt. And I love this picture. I wish you
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Speaker 1: could all see it. I'm showing Peyton right now, but
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Speaker 1: it's just a great picture of a player bending down.
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Speaker 1: They're going home, but just to remember the time that
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Speaker 1: they were here. And you know, those final eight teams
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Speaker 1: who come to Omaha, whether they win or whether they lose,
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Speaker 1: they are they are part of history and everyone gets
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Speaker 1: to take home not I mean only one gets to
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Speaker 1: take home the championship, but for the others, I think
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Speaker 1: there is a lot of soulas that they were part
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Speaker 1: of the road to Omaha. They shared college baseball's biggest
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Speaker 1: stage with their teammates and their family and their friends,
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Speaker 1: and they get to take that with them as well,
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Speaker 1: of course as a souvenir of the Greatest Show on Dirt.
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Speaker 2: Just a little dirt from the field in Omaha.
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Speaker 1: And I think sometimes that happens to be just some
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Speaker 1: of the dirt, but boy, the memories that they have.
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Speaker 1: The other thing I saw in the World Herald that
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Speaker 1: I absolutely loved is a full page ad that Troy
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Speaker 1: the Trojans put in And I love this too. Troy
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Speaker 1: University put a full page ad in and I just
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Speaker 1: want to read it because it says. It starts out
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Speaker 1: and it says, Omaha, help.
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Speaker 2: Us make history.
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Speaker 1: This is our first trip to Omaha ever in program history.
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Speaker 1: We are from a town of about eighteen thousand people.
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Speaker 1: More than half of them showed up for our super Regional.
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Speaker 1: We won four elimination games in Gainesville, four straight, win
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Speaker 1: or go home.
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Speaker 2: We chose Omaha.
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Speaker 1: And then it goes on to say, listen out for
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Speaker 1: roll call in the first inning, every name, every starter,
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Speaker 1: every game, It's our thing. Join our cheer when Trojans
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Speaker 1: Nations starts it, We'd love for you to join us.
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Speaker 2: And then it says we've been waiting to meet you.
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Speaker 1: See you at Charles schwabfeel Troy Mania is here and
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Speaker 1: they took a full page ad.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that cool?
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Speaker 1: I really think that that is such a cool ad
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Speaker 1: that they did just to say how thrilled they were
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Speaker 1: to be here.
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Speaker 2: And it's true.
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Speaker 1: I mean, from a town of eighteen thousand, for those
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Speaker 1: people were thrilled that they were here.
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Speaker 2: So good for you guys for being here and making it.
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Speaker 4: That's a really cool story there in that the photo
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Speaker 4: of the guy, he's on his knees picking up the dirt.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 3: I mean that picture just captures so much emotion.
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Speaker 4: I think about how many players are in Omaha this week,
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Speaker 4: and even the players before they came to Omaha. About
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Speaker 4: how many of these players their last time playing baseball.
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Speaker 3: Only only a few.
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Speaker 4: Guys get to go play at the next level professionally,
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Speaker 4: absolutely their last time playing baseball.
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Speaker 3: It's a lot of emotions in this.
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Speaker 4: Just earlier this week, a few days ago, they were
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Speaker 4: experiencing what was about to be the most fun few
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Speaker 4: days of their life and now it's such a sad time.
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Speaker 2: It is, but that you know, that's baseball too.
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Speaker 1: They when they come they are thrilled to be in
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Speaker 1: that last final eight to go to the championship, but
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Speaker 1: they all know there's going to be only one champion
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Speaker 1: and it happens every year. But it's it's cool too
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Speaker 1: that every team playing this year, they weren't here last year.
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Speaker 1: None of them were here. They've been here in the past,
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Speaker 1: but none of them are here last year. That's great
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Speaker 1: for the sports, great for the city of Omaha.
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Speaker 2: It is. It's great.
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Speaker 1: We look great on the national stage. And I mentioned
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Speaker 1: this before, but it's good to review it. I think
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Speaker 1: you know, that stadium it about one hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: three million to build. It will be paid off by
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Speaker 1: in twenty thirty seven, and it's paid off by the revenue.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a waterfall, but there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of revenue that comes in during the you know, the championship.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Creighton plays there too. It seats about twenty
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Speaker 1: four thousand plus in the stadium. The attendance has been really, really,
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Speaker 1: really good if you've been to the game. There is
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Speaker 1: a new scoreboard out in center field and more left
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Speaker 1: field I guess it would be, and that is great.
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Speaker 1: It's like the big one that was there before, but
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Speaker 1: now they have two different things going on on those
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Speaker 1: scoreboards at one time, and it's really cool. So every
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Speaker 1: year they try to make it better and they try
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Speaker 1: to make it better for the fans. But I've enjoyed
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Speaker 1: being down there every single day. And another thing I
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Speaker 1: had to bring up is we have a little thing
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Speaker 1: called World Cup going on in the United States too.
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Speaker 2: That was pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday the United States didn't play Argentina versus Algeria, but
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Speaker 1: Lionel Messi score or the first the scores a hat trick.
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Speaker 2: So he did.
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Speaker 1: Three goals, the only three goals, and I think that
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Speaker 1: that was the first career. That was the first of
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Speaker 1: his career, I believe for the World Cup. Correct of
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Speaker 1: scoring that hat trick, and so he tied all the
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Speaker 1: all time tournament goal for the most goals at one time,
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Speaker 1: and they had a record win over Algeria. Okay, mister
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Speaker 1: soccer player over there, why do they call it a
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Speaker 1: hat trick?
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Speaker 3: You know, I actually don't know why they call it
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Speaker 3: a hot trick.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll educate me, please.
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Speaker 1: It started with hockey and then it went over to soccer.
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Speaker 1: But in hockey, when a player scores three goals in
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Speaker 1: a single game, fans traditionally throw their hats on the ice, and.
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Speaker 2: That's why they call it a hat trick.
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Speaker 3: And it came from hockey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and now soccer still uses that three goals in
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Speaker 1: one game, they call it a hat trick. But they
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Speaker 1: actually traditionally in hockey throw their hats out on the ice,
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Speaker 1: So that's why they call it a hat trick, a
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Speaker 1: little fun facts really me, yes, but I think that's
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Speaker 1: really cool. All this is going on in the United
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Speaker 1: States is looking really, really good.
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Speaker 2: You know. On the national stage.
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Speaker 1: Of course, there is a memorandum of understanding with a run.
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Speaker 1: Oil prices are falling, stocks are climbing on the deal,
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Speaker 1: and I think we all need to stay tuned to
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Speaker 1: see what happens when this deal is finalized. But gas
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Speaker 1: prices are going down and the stock market is up,
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Speaker 1: and so things look good on the international stage too.
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Speaker 1: So Peyton, we had I think we had a call
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Speaker 1: yesterday or an email that ask a question that we
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Speaker 1: didn't get on the air, and I wanted you to
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Speaker 1: ask that today.
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Speaker 2: And it's about the Union Hall. Could you read that
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Speaker 2: from please?
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Speaker 3: John gave us a call yesterday. Didn't feel like he
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Speaker 3: needed to be on air.
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Speaker 4: It is the you said the name for it, but
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Speaker 4: it is a he said, police office, police center.
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Speaker 3: I think it's the union Hall. Is that what you said?
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Speaker 3: The police union?
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 1: A Police Officers Association hall, and it's it's if you
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Speaker 1: don't know where it is. You can't see it from
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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty second and Center, but it would
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Speaker 1: be considered on the north west corner. It's back behind
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Speaker 1: that little set of there's a little shopping center there.
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Speaker 1: It's more on Crier, but it's just kind of a
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Speaker 1: west of one hundred and thirty second.
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Speaker 4: And he asked, was it it was torn down? What's
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Speaker 4: built now? He's just kind of confused on what was
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Speaker 4: going on in that area.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that building it's it's not the Omaha Police Department,
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Speaker 1: but it is the Omaha Police Officers Association building and
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Speaker 1: it's like an assembly where they have their meetings and everything.
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Speaker 1: And what is happening is they are building a new
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Speaker 1: building and so that it's it's going to be about
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Speaker 1: the same size, but it's going to be more modern
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Speaker 1: and they will rent it out. It's going to be
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Speaker 1: a more modern rental space space in southwest Omaha, and
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Speaker 1: it could be rented out for wedding receptions and retirement
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Speaker 1: parties and things like that. It's about the same size,
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Speaker 1: but different design inside not so broken up as the
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Speaker 1: other one was. And I know the next question will
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Speaker 1: be who's paying for that? And it is paid for
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Speaker 1: by the members of the Omaha Police Officers Association. And
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Speaker 1: then by the rental fees, so this is not coming
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Speaker 1: from taxpayer dollars.
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Speaker 2: So just so you know that.
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Speaker 1: It was a pretty old building there. They have their
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Speaker 1: meetings there and they do rent it out for different
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Speaker 1: events and things like that. But now they'll have a
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Speaker 1: more modern building that hopefully a lot of other people
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Speaker 1: could use to So that's what the that's what's going
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Speaker 1: on there.
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Speaker 4: One second here, I was looking through a few emails
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Speaker 4: here and Joseph sent a message to me and he said, I,
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Speaker 4: Gene and Peyton. I caught the tail end of the
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Speaker 4: discussion yesterday about the left lane and he says, I
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Speaker 4: am sometimes give.
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Speaker 3: Of hanging in the left lane. Okay, linger on the
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Speaker 3: left lane.
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Speaker 4: But then somebody also emailed me this morning and said,
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Speaker 4: just because it's an express lane in the left lane
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Speaker 4: doesn't mean that you can just fly as fast as
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Speaker 4: you can.
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Speaker 2: Well that's true too.
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Speaker 1: I mean there are laws, there are speed limits, and
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Speaker 1: people don't seem to follow those two well either, but
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Speaker 1: you know we've got to be there are there are
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Speaker 1: too many traffic deaths and people will say, well, why
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Speaker 1: don't you have a more police out and why don't
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Speaker 1: you have police watching that more. But you know, we,
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Speaker 1: like I said, we have speed limits, we have laws.
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Speaker 1: People need to follow those and there would be absolutely
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Speaker 1: less traffic deaths that there's there's basically two main reasons
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Speaker 1: why there are traffic accidents, and one is red light
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Speaker 1: running and the second is speeding. I mean, it's just
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Speaker 1: as clear as it can be. So we know that
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Speaker 1: if we were not running red lights and speeding, we.
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Speaker 2: Would have a lot less.
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Speaker 1: However, now that I'm talking talking about it, here comes aroundabouts,
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Speaker 1: those things that people tend to hate.
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Speaker 2: We have them all over Omaha.
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Speaker 1: Now that if you think about the two main reasons
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Speaker 1: for accidents, red light running and speeding, the roundabout eliminates
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Speaker 1: both of those because it slows you down and there's
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Speaker 1: no red light signals around to roundabout, so it achieves
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Speaker 1: both things.
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Speaker 2: So those have been proven to be much safer.
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Speaker 1: People will question, well, a fire truck can't get around him, Yes,
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Speaker 1: they can.
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Speaker 2: A firetruck, a police car, they can get a round about.
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Speaker 1: And let me tell you, if a fire truck needed
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Speaker 1: to it would go right over the top of the roundabout.
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Speaker 2: They will get where they need to go.
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Speaker 4: You know what I should have brought up when we
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Speaker 4: were talking about Troy University just a few minutes ago.
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Speaker 4: Was over the weekend, Troy baseball team reports thirty five
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Speaker 4: thousand dollars in camera equipment stolen at the CWS. I
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Speaker 4: saw that, and this is a story that I'm reading
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Speaker 4: from Channel six WOWT right now, and it's kind of interesting.
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Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on that?
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Speaker 6: Gene?
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Speaker 4: They they were getting ready to go to their game
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Speaker 4: on Sunday or excuse me, yeah, on Sunday afternoon one
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Speaker 4: pm game.
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Speaker 2: I think you were at that game, right, Yes, it
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Speaker 2: wasn't me, that's but you know.
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Speaker 3: Not accusing you, but you know it was.
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Speaker 2: It was a lot of camera equipment and things like that.
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Speaker 1: But you know what, I just have this feeling that
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Speaker 1: that that stolen equipment will be recovered because there are
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Speaker 1: cameras everywhere.
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Speaker 2: And who would do that for crying out.
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Speaker 1: Loud, going on one of the team's buses and stealing
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Speaker 1: their camera equipment.
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Speaker 3: It's so silly.
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Speaker 1: It is silly, But I just have a feeling that
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Speaker 1: that will be that will be recovered. But I'm I'm
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Speaker 1: for this type of a team that has tried so
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Speaker 1: hard to get here for that to happen. It's really
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Speaker 1: a shame, but hopefully that's the the biggest thing negative
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Speaker 1: thing that's going to happen there. And you know, there
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Speaker 1: was another call we didn't get to yesterday, and I
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Speaker 1: believe it was somebody when Heath Mellow, a president and
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Speaker 1: CEO of the Greater Homa Chamber, was here when he
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Speaker 1: was talking about Omaha. I believe somebody called in and said,
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Speaker 1: but mister Mello, do you could read it? It's do
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Speaker 1: people shy away from Omaha because our taxes are so high?
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Speaker 1: I mean something was said about the taxes. Yeah, remember
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Speaker 1: that question, yes, and I'm looking forward. It was it
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Speaker 1: was kind of a sarcastic comment saying, of course, you know,
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Speaker 1: what a great way to bring people new people to
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Speaker 1: Omaha with super high property taxes. It's exactly what they're
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Speaker 1: looking for. I want to start a business in a
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Speaker 1: place with high taxes. And you know, okay, I'm because
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Speaker 1: I wanted to address that because I remember you told me,
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Speaker 1: and we didn't get to that one, but I thought
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Speaker 1: about it, and yes, our property taxes are high here,
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Speaker 1: but again keep in mind, sixty two percent of your
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Speaker 1: property tax bills go to your public schools. There's only
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Speaker 1: about twenty two percent. Twenty two percent of your entire
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Speaker 1: property tax bill goes to the City of Omaha, and
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Speaker 1: with that money, the City of Omaha has to fund
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Speaker 1: the libraries, the police department, the fire department, the Planning department,
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Speaker 1: the public works department, the libraries, the community centers, and
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Speaker 1: swimming pools. All of that is funded out of twenty
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Speaker 1: two percent of your entire bill. So just keep that
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Speaker 1: in mind. Property taxes are high. However, when businesses are
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Speaker 1: looking at where to relocate or where to build, you
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Speaker 1: have to look at the total cost of living here,
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Speaker 1: and being smack dab in the center of the country,
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Speaker 1: the cost of living here is relatively low if you
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Speaker 1: compare it to the East or west coast. Even look
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Speaker 1: at sales tax for example, sales tax is the largest
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Speaker 1: piece of revenue that the City of Omaha gets. We
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Speaker 1: get more sales tax, then we get property taxes to
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Speaker 1: fund our budget, and.
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Speaker 2: So the sales tax.
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Speaker 1: The state sales tax in Nebraska is five point five percent,
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Speaker 1: and then local jurisdictions you can have a impose their
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Speaker 1: own additional tax by law in the state in Nebraska,
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Speaker 1: and it could go from point five percent to two percent.
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Speaker 1: Now here's the catch, and I think this is interesting
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Speaker 1: for people. Cities of bi state law, cities of the
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Speaker 1: metropolitan class can only add another one point five percent.
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Speaker 1: Omaha is the only city in the state of Nebraska
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Speaker 1: that is a city of metropolitan class, so that state
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Speaker 1: law only pertains to Omaha.
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Speaker 2: So that's your local option sales tax.
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Speaker 1: It has been imposed by approval of the city council
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Speaker 1: for years and years and years, and we are at
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Speaker 1: an additional one point five percent in Omaha. So that
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Speaker 1: means in Omaha, the total sales tax is seven percent.
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Speaker 1: That compared to many other states, is low, and businesses
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Speaker 1: look at that too. For example, Texas sales tax is
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Speaker 1: over eight percent. Do you know Louisiana sales tax is
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Speaker 1: over ten percent. I keep in mind verse seven. You
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Speaker 1: take Tennis. I looked this up last night. Tennessee, Washington, Arkansas,
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Speaker 1: and Alabama are over nine percent. So you got to
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Speaker 1: look at all the taxes, not just the property taxes. California,
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Speaker 1: there's some places in California sales taxes are over eleven percent.
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Speaker 2: We are at seven here.
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Speaker 1: And then you look at the cost of housing in
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Speaker 1: real estate, and it is very low in Omaha and
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Speaker 1: in Nebraska. Compared to other cities, other major cities, and
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Speaker 1: we are a major city because we are in the
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Speaker 1: top fifty or the thirty ninth largest city in the country.
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Speaker 1: State income tax in the state of Nebraska. Some states
18:44
Speaker 1: don't have a state income tax. Texas doesn't, for example,
18:48
Speaker 1: but state income tax in Nebraska there's four levels.
18:51
Speaker 2: The highest it is is five point eight, So.
18:54
Speaker 1: You do you know, I think the state needs to
18:56
Speaker 1: look at their state income tax. If they could make
18:58
Speaker 1: the state income tax low or eliminate it, you know,
19:02
Speaker 1: that would definitely make us more competitive.
19:05
Speaker 2: But that's up to the state.
19:06
Speaker 1: But if when you look at the average cost of
19:09
Speaker 1: living in Omaha and in Nebraska compared to other states,
19:13
Speaker 1: businesses like what they see and when they I've talked
19:17
Speaker 1: to many people that have moved here from California, and
19:20
Speaker 1: it was unbelievable what they could buy, what they sold
19:23
Speaker 1: for in California and they moved here, and what they
19:26
Speaker 1: paid for real estate here. When I was first mayor,
19:30
Speaker 1: I was on a vacation in the Napa Valley with
19:34
Speaker 1: my husband and the president of the Greater Alma Chamber
19:37
Speaker 1: at the time was David Brown, and he called me
19:39
Speaker 1: and he said, I heard you're in California, and I
19:41
Speaker 1: said I am, and he said, I'm heading down to
19:43
Speaker 1: Silicon Valley. I want to talk to LinkedIn and I
19:47
Speaker 1: want to see if they would They were already in Omaha,
19:51
Speaker 1: but I want them to grow in Omaha. And I said,
19:54
Speaker 1: I'll be down there, and so I got in the
19:56
Speaker 1: car and drove down to Silicon Valley. David Brown down there,
20:01
Speaker 1: we met with LinkedIn, and I remember this was when
20:04
Speaker 1: I was first mayor, so it's probably twenty thirteen, twenty
20:07
Speaker 1: fourteen that we did this. And I remembered something about
20:10
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the people in that area live in
20:13
Speaker 1: apartments because they can't even afford a house, and the
20:16
Speaker 1: one bedroom apartment at that time went for over five
20:20
Speaker 1: thousand a month a one bedroom.
20:23
Speaker 2: And when they.
20:23
Speaker 1: Saw what they had here, they were astounded. And you know,
20:28
Speaker 1: LinkedIn did grow and expand here. They are out at
20:31
Speaker 1: Sterling Ridge at one hundred and thirty second in Pacific
20:34
Speaker 1: And if you drive down Pacific and you look at
20:37
Speaker 1: Sterling Ridge, that huge building in the back that there's
20:40
Speaker 1: two buildings connected by a glass walkway that's LinkedIn. And
20:45
Speaker 1: they did come here and expand here because the cost
20:48
Speaker 1: of living is so much lower than California. So uh yeah,
20:52
Speaker 1: we do have high property taxes. That is something that
20:55
Speaker 1: is on everybody's mind. It's certainly the governor's number one priority.
21:00
Speaker 1: I had a priority when I was mayor of lowering
21:02
Speaker 1: the levee. That's all we could do is lower the levee,
21:06
Speaker 1: and we did it five times in the time that
21:08
Speaker 1: I was mayor. So we're going to We'll have to
21:10
Speaker 1: see what happens in the future. But people will say, well,
21:13
Speaker 1: my valuation and my home went up, so therefore I'm
21:16
Speaker 1: paying more taxes.
21:17
Speaker 2: That is true.
21:18
Speaker 1: That's up to the Douglas County Assessor. Some people's evaluations
21:21
Speaker 1: went up, valuations, some went down, some stayed the same.
21:26
Speaker 1: But you know what, that's a double edged sword too,
21:29
Speaker 1: because you definitely don't want to lose value in your home,
21:33
Speaker 1: especially if you want to sell it. I mean, you
21:35
Speaker 1: want the value to stay the way it is, or
21:38
Speaker 1: you want it to grow, because if you go to
21:40
Speaker 1: sell your house, you want your house to be worth
21:42
Speaker 1: more than you paid for. But at the same time,
21:45
Speaker 1: when it is, then you end up paying more taxes.
21:48
Speaker 4: Here on a Wednesday, on a hump day, middle of
21:50
Speaker 4: the week, we're getting through it today, and I got
21:53
Speaker 4: a couple questions in regards to the minimum wage the
21:56
Speaker 4: city council meeting that took place yesterday. I got an
22:00
Speaker 4: email from Greg and he says, I have no objection
22:03
Speaker 4: to the minimum wage being the same across the board,
22:07
Speaker 4: and that is currently the minimum wage for kids fourteen
22:12
Speaker 4: to sixteen. They can have a minimum wage of thirteen
22:15
Speaker 4: dollars and fifty cents, and the city council meeting is
22:17
Speaker 4: to raise all minimum wages for all demographics to fifteen dollars.
22:22
Speaker 4: He says, what I have an objection with is the
22:25
Speaker 4: idea that people think minimum wage needs to be a
22:29
Speaker 4: living wage, the same people that think, quote, affordable housing
22:34
Speaker 4: should mean cheap housing. I know you have some responses
22:38
Speaker 4: to that, Gene, but I do want to get Larry
22:40
Speaker 4: in here really quick, and then I'll let you break
22:42
Speaker 4: this all down. Larry, thanks for hanging on for me
22:44
Speaker 4: this morning. Welcome to KFAB. You're live with Jean's author.
22:48
Speaker 6: Good morning, Good.
22:49
Speaker 2: Morning Larry, your time.
22:52
Speaker 6: In regards to yesterday's meeting, now, I's citizen. I don't
22:56
Speaker 6: want to sue the city, but I have two three
22:59
Speaker 6: reasons and in regards to that ordinance. Yesterday, before the
23:04
Speaker 6: meetia started, it was apparent that mister Bagley stacked the
23:09
Speaker 6: room with people for his particular agenda item, which was
23:16
Speaker 6: the minimum wage. I was sitting my eight ladies when
23:20
Speaker 6: he walked in, talked to them and thanked them for coming.
23:24
Speaker 6: And they had a petition drive with its showing towards
23:28
Speaker 6: the cameras, which they didn't show on the video. But
23:33
Speaker 6: he obviously well, he obviously encouraged up roomful of people,
23:38
Speaker 6: which is not normal for his ordinance, and I think
23:43
Speaker 6: that is an improper use the city taxpayer's dollars and
23:47
Speaker 6: the city council rules. Every one of the people who
23:51
Speaker 6: signed up, and a lot of people signed up to
23:58
Speaker 6: go in and speak. When they spoke, they made it
24:03
Speaker 6: a presentation rather than comments. The normal rule is you
24:10
Speaker 6: can comment on those items which will allow you to comment,
24:15
Speaker 6: but you comment only on the wording of that particular item.
24:20
Speaker 6: These people were, These people were all making presentations and
24:26
Speaker 6: that was entirely against the rules of the city council.
24:32
Speaker 2: So Larry, did you lu did you object?
24:37
Speaker 6: Did you speak to do that? And I sat there
24:40
Speaker 6: for almost the four hours before he said something about
24:45
Speaker 6: is there anybody that wants to be an opponent. He
24:50
Speaker 6: made a mistake there, so I got up. He interrupted
24:54
Speaker 6: me because he wasn't through with the list of those
24:57
Speaker 6: that signed up to speak, but he argued with me
25:01
Speaker 6: about it. It was his mistake. He asked for opponents.
25:05
Speaker 6: I went up, and then he shut me up and
25:09
Speaker 6: ordered the SHARE's deputies to take me out because I objected.
25:13
Speaker 6: I told him, and his commenting as an opponent against
25:16
Speaker 6: number forty nine, he said, I wasn't. He has no
25:21
Speaker 6: right to do that, and I don't want to sue
25:23
Speaker 6: the city as citizen should not have to. He needs
25:27
Speaker 6: to be censured from making that his personal city council
25:33
Speaker 6: meeting and his personal item. And he took four hours
25:38
Speaker 6: to get things done for him.
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Speaker 2: There was four hours of testimony yesterday on that one.
25:43
Speaker 6: Issue, well pretty much because they run through the rest
25:48
Speaker 6: of them very fast. But it was his ordinance and
25:54
Speaker 6: it's an agenda item. It was not a presentation item.
25:59
Speaker 6: And I know you understand have a different I do.
26:02
Speaker 1: And you know I didn't listen to the meeting yesterday
26:06
Speaker 1: because I was down at the ballgame. But I just
26:09
Speaker 1: a few comments, I know, for those that are in
26:12
Speaker 1: the audience that could be very annoying. I will say
26:16
Speaker 1: that it is up to the city council president to
26:20
Speaker 1: run the meeting and Danny Bagley is the City council
26:22
Speaker 1: president now, although there is a parliamentarian and they do
26:26
Speaker 1: need to follow the rules. It is not uncommon, as
26:32
Speaker 1: you say, it usually doesn't happen. But I know in
26:35
Speaker 1: the time I was down at City Hall, which was
26:37
Speaker 1: sixteen years, I had seen this happen on different issues.
26:42
Speaker 2: Is that.
26:43
Speaker 1: A person that has an agenda item, whatever council member
26:47
Speaker 1: does on the agenda, they have the right to ask
26:51
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people to come in and support it,
26:54
Speaker 1: and obviously they're not going to ask people to come
26:56
Speaker 1: in that don't support it. And so backing the room
27:00
Speaker 1: you use that term, that does happen, and you know
27:05
Speaker 1: you hate to see it happen because they're trying to
27:08
Speaker 1: make the point that this is the right thing to do.
27:11
Speaker 1: When you think of the amount of people in Omaha
27:15
Speaker 1: that may not think it is the right thing to do,
27:18
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it bothers it. I will make
27:21
Speaker 1: an analogy with elections. You know, people get very angry
27:25
Speaker 1: at the results of elections, but when twenty six twenty
27:30
Speaker 1: seven percent of the people in Omaha come out and vote.
27:35
Speaker 1: What you see is what you get. You know, it's
27:38
Speaker 1: not the voice of the people. And the same thing
27:40
Speaker 1: happens with city council agenda items. I think there's you know,
27:44
Speaker 1: there's there might have been, you know, thirty people there
27:47
Speaker 1: yesterday that were asked to come the way you explain it, Larry,
27:52
Speaker 1: that it was very scripted and planned a presentation. They
27:56
Speaker 1: each had their role to do, so that was very organized.
28:01
Speaker 1: The council members do have a right to ask people
28:03
Speaker 1: to do that, but that was only that many people,
28:08
Speaker 1: and you just got to stop and figure out.
28:09
Speaker 2: There are many, many, many more that don't feel the
28:12
Speaker 2: same way and don't support that.
28:15
Speaker 1: So I would again, I would suggest if if you
28:19
Speaker 1: feel like that you were treated unfairly, I would suggest
28:24
Speaker 1: that you speak to the city attorney or you know,
28:28
Speaker 1: and I mean that would be your first avenue to
28:32
Speaker 1: start out with. I don't know if you've ever spoken
28:34
Speaker 1: to the city attorney before, but I think you need
28:37
Speaker 1: to make your concerns be known. I hate the the
28:41
Speaker 1: that you feel like that your only alternative is to
28:45
Speaker 1: sue the city, and that is an alternative, but There
28:50
Speaker 1: was also the city attorney at that meeting, and the
28:52
Speaker 1: city clerk was at that meeting too, because they're at
28:55
Speaker 1: every meeting. And I don't know if they intervened at
28:58
Speaker 1: all or asked for an opinion on that, But I
29:01
Speaker 1: hate to hear when people are escorted out of a
29:04
Speaker 1: public meeting. Usually people are escorted out if they are
29:09
Speaker 1: you know, disruptive, or they're using foul language or you know.
29:13
Speaker 1: I had somebody one time come and lay down in
29:17
Speaker 1: front of the podium and we asked if that person
29:20
Speaker 1: be removed. It was a little you know, distracting during
29:23
Speaker 1: the meeting. But for those types of things, I have
29:27
Speaker 1: seen that happen. For example, just about a month ago,
29:33
Speaker 1: the firefighters wanted to go back to what they did
29:37
Speaker 1: many years ago and passing the boot for muscular dystrophee
29:42
Speaker 1: while being paid on city time. They did it in
29:45
Speaker 1: the past. They were told that it was a violation
29:48
Speaker 1: of the law to do that and they couldn't do
29:50
Speaker 1: it anymore. They could do it definitely on their own time,
29:53
Speaker 1: they're off time, their time off, they're days off, but
29:56
Speaker 1: they couldn't do it on their work time. And they
29:59
Speaker 1: brought it back again to see if the city Council
30:02
Speaker 1: would reconsider it, and they stack the room with people
30:05
Speaker 1: that would were saying that they supported it, but you
30:09
Speaker 1: know that there are plenty of others that don't. It's
30:12
Speaker 1: the issue that we have with all public meetings. I
30:15
Speaker 1: think a lot of times people come to town hall
30:17
Speaker 1: meetings because they have one issue, but not everybody comes
30:21
Speaker 1: to town hall meetings unless their voice be heard. So, Larry,
30:24
Speaker 1: I appreciate you calling. I know it's frustrating. It is
30:27
Speaker 1: a public meeting and the public should be allowed to speak.
30:31
Speaker 1: I can't really speak too much on what happened yesterday
30:34
Speaker 1: because I did not see it and I didn't watch it,
30:38
Speaker 1: and I will let people know. The city council meetings
30:40
Speaker 1: are at two o'clock in the afternoon, mostly on Tuesday.
30:44
Speaker 1: You could check the schedule on the City of Omaha's
30:48
Speaker 1: web page the City Clerk's web page. But they are
30:51
Speaker 1: also replayed on public television at seven in the evening,
30:55
Speaker 1: and so if you ever want to watch a city
30:57
Speaker 1: council meeting, and I could pull it up on my
31:00
Speaker 1: phone and watch it while live while it's happening too.
31:03
Speaker 1: If I'm not there, you can always send a written
31:06
Speaker 1: testimony to the city Clerk also and ask him to
31:11
Speaker 1: give that out to all the city council members. Or
31:13
Speaker 1: you can bring a written testimony to the city council
31:16
Speaker 1: meeting and hand it into the clerk and she can
31:19
Speaker 1: make sure all the city council members see it.
31:21
Speaker 2: So those are my suggestions. And appreciate the call, Larry.
31:24
Speaker 3: Larry, thank you for the call.
31:25
Speaker 4: And I know Gene from what you've said and obviously
31:28
Speaker 4: the way he calls in and explains these things to us.
31:31
Speaker 4: Larry's in the City Council Hall of Fame. I mean
31:34
Speaker 4: he is there. He's always present, and he does if
31:37
Speaker 4: he was if he was a trouble maker, he would
31:41
Speaker 4: it would not be such a common theme for him
31:44
Speaker 4: to go all these times.
31:45
Speaker 1: Well, if everybody was as engaged as Larry, that room,
31:48
Speaker 1: that Legislative chamber at City Hall would be packed every meeting,
31:52
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of important things that you know.
31:56
Speaker 2: I mean, sometimes people.
31:58
Speaker 1: They have a lot to say about what goes on
32:00
Speaker 1: in the city, but they don't really participate in the
32:03
Speaker 1: meetings that are public and they can do that. So
32:06
Speaker 1: I encourage people to watch what's going on in the
32:09
Speaker 1: City Council. You know, those agendas, those items like this,
32:13
Speaker 1: those agenda items, they have to go through three readings
32:16
Speaker 1: at three different days. You know, if it's a it's
32:19
Speaker 1: an ordinance or a change in law, or a change
32:22
Speaker 1: in an ordinance. They have to do one time for
32:24
Speaker 1: publications so people know what's coming they have to do,
32:27
Speaker 1: the next one is a public hearing, and then the
32:30
Speaker 1: third time it is a vote. And so there's basically
32:33
Speaker 1: three opportunities. Even on the day of the vote, a
32:36
Speaker 1: city council member can call people down to speak. You
32:39
Speaker 1: don't have open public speeding speaking on the third reading,
32:43
Speaker 1: but there are plenty opportunities for the public to take
32:46
Speaker 1: part in it, and they should.
32:47
Speaker 4: And the big topic of the city council meeting yesterday
32:50
Speaker 4: was the minimum wage. Yes, like we kind of teased
32:53
Speaker 4: Larry with and do you know, off the top of
32:55
Speaker 4: your head, which number this was. Was this the first,
32:58
Speaker 4: second or third meeting that was presented?
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Speaker 1: Well, since it was public hearing, it was second. Second
33:03
Speaker 1: reading is public hearing so that people are allowed to speak.
33:07
Speaker 1: But you know, we've talked about this before. You know,
33:09
Speaker 1: the state of Nebraska set the minimum wage at fifteen dollars.
33:13
Speaker 1: But they also said the oh, I got to stop
33:16
Speaker 1: and think. I believe it's fourteen to sixteen year olds.
33:19
Speaker 1: It could be thirteen thirteen. Can you work at thirteen anyway?
33:22
Speaker 1: But at thirteen fifty And what the city council this
33:27
Speaker 1: is Danny Bagley's ordinance is to make all of it
33:30
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars an hour.
33:32
Speaker 2: And what you said earlier, Peyton is correct. This is
33:35
Speaker 2: minimum wage.
33:36
Speaker 1: We had one question that came in and said will
33:38
Speaker 1: this affect labor negotiations with the City of Omaha, And
33:42
Speaker 1: I was able to say very quickly no, because we
33:46
Speaker 1: don't hire anybody at minimum wage in the City of Omaha,
33:48
Speaker 1: So no, that doesn't pertain. That won't make any difference
33:51
Speaker 1: really for labor negotiations with the City of Omaha. But
33:54
Speaker 1: you can't look at this thirteen fifty, which the state
33:57
Speaker 1: has as a living wage. I mean, people don't start
34:02
Speaker 1: out at minimum wage and stay there forever. So don't
34:05
Speaker 1: look at this saying, well, golly, it's going to make
34:07
Speaker 1: a real difference in my life if I make fifteen
34:10
Speaker 1: dollars an hour rather than thirteen fifty an hour. That
34:13
Speaker 1: is an entry level job.
34:15
Speaker 2: But at the.
34:15
Speaker 1: Same time, businesses that do start people out and they
34:19
Speaker 1: hire fourteen year olds. For example, at minimum wage, say
34:22
Speaker 1: a fast food restaurant.
34:25
Speaker 2: You know, they have to.
34:26
Speaker 1: Make so much revenue to succeed and survive, and if
34:31
Speaker 1: they are forced to pay more, what will in turn
34:35
Speaker 1: happen is they will hire less.
34:37
Speaker 2: So it's just a double edged sword.
34:40
Speaker 1: You know, if they have to spend a lot more
34:42
Speaker 1: money on their salaries than in turn, they will just
34:45
Speaker 1: have left employees. And that's that's not what we're trying
34:48
Speaker 1: to achieve. Minimum wage should be market driven period.
34:53
Speaker 4: You know Rockos Downtown selling the Jello shots, very very
34:57
Speaker 4: interesting podcast. They are with the with the ma He's
35:00
Speaker 4: the one who always is writing up the scores and
35:03
Speaker 4: the tallies.
35:03
Speaker 3: Have you've ever seen those on social media?
35:05
Speaker 1: And yes, and I am officially gonna invite the owner
35:08
Speaker 1: of Rockos to come in here when you and I
35:10
Speaker 1: are on the air.
35:11
Speaker 3: That'll be so much fun, really good idea, Bring us, bring.
35:14
Speaker 1: All the jello shots you want. We could have a
35:16
Speaker 1: game in here, Come on in.
35:21
Speaker 3: I did.
35:21
Speaker 4: I did get a call, and I thank you Kurt
35:23
Speaker 4: for holding on because he asked a question. And this
35:26
Speaker 4: is the essence of the KFA B comment line. Is
35:29
Speaker 4: uh I don't know anybody, but Jane does. And so
35:31
Speaker 4: Kurt had a question here about the roads and Jane
35:34
Speaker 4: was able to find an answer.
35:35
Speaker 3: Kurt, Welcome into kfa B. You are live with jeanst Author.
35:39
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, good morning. What's your question? What's
35:46
Speaker 2: your issue?
35:48
Speaker 5: Well, I was wondering you got six ten lumbered roads
35:55
Speaker 5: in no way to enforcement out of thirty second Q
36:03
Speaker 5: to Giles, it's okay, restricted six tons.
36:13
Speaker 2: Well, you know from Harrison south is Sarpy County. You
36:18
Speaker 2: know that. But I will tell you this.
36:20
Speaker 1: In Omaha, the through truck traffic over six tons can
36:27
Speaker 1: only use designated truck routes. And I mean that's that's
36:31
Speaker 1: just what the rules are here, and that if you
36:35
Speaker 1: want to know what the designated truck routes in Omaha
36:39
Speaker 1: for through truck traffic are there, there's a lot of them,
36:42
Speaker 1: but there is a map of those on the city's website. So,
36:47
Speaker 1: like I said, south of Harrison is Sarpee County. You're
36:51
Speaker 1: not going to see that on the city's website. But
36:54
Speaker 1: for all through truck traffic, any truck over six tons
36:58
Speaker 1: can only use designation truck routes because they absolutely will
37:02
Speaker 1: tear the Street up with a lot of truck traffic
37:05
Speaker 1: on there.
37:06
Speaker 2: So that's the answer to that question. Appreciate your call.
37:09
Speaker 1: I had to stop and think when you said one
37:11
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty second, because if if you go one
37:13
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty seconds south past Q Street, it becomes
37:17
Speaker 1: Millard Ave or past Or L Street, it becomes miller
37:20
Speaker 1: to Ave. But I know that there's that little area
37:24
Speaker 1: where one hundred and thirty fifth, one hundred and thirty
37:27
Speaker 1: six they kind of go past the Millard Airport there,
37:31
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit tricky, but I know the
37:33
Speaker 1: area you're talking about.
37:34
Speaker 2: But it is.
37:36
Speaker 1: A rule through the entire city of Omaha, and there
37:40
Speaker 1: is a map on the city's website that you could
37:42
Speaker 1: see where the truck routes are.
37:44
Speaker 4: Yes, that's a very interesting question, Kerk. Thank you, and
37:47
Speaker 4: as I just look around here for a few more
37:49
Speaker 4: things that we can talk about. The streetcar has been
37:54
Speaker 4: a theme today, surprising.
37:56
Speaker 2: I will talk about this. I love it. I will
38:00
Speaker 2: talk about the streetcar anytime.
38:02
Speaker 1: And you know, I've told you all I know a
38:04
Speaker 1: lot about it, and I'm not going to back away
38:08
Speaker 1: from it or blame anybody else. You know, this did
38:11
Speaker 1: come from the Urban Core Committee with a greater Roma
38:14
Speaker 1: Chamber Commerce, which was a lot of people business owners,
38:17
Speaker 1: much smarter than me, that this was their number one recommendation.
38:21
Speaker 1: And after they told me how their proposal, how it
38:25
Speaker 1: could be paid for with out raising taxes, the economic
38:28
Speaker 1: benefit to the entire city, they sold me on it.
38:31
Speaker 1: And it is happening, and it will happen, and it's
38:35
Speaker 1: not going to be We're not going to stop the
38:37
Speaker 1: construction of the streetcar. The rails are being put in,
38:41
Speaker 1: and any question that you all have about it, I'm
38:44
Speaker 1: happy to answer it, or to try to answer it.
38:46
Speaker 4: I believe it was a few weeks ago. You might
38:49
Speaker 4: have been out of town. But were you invited to
38:52
Speaker 4: the signing of the rails.
38:54
Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting because that was all arranged by Mary
39:01
Speaker 1: Ewing's office, and I was invited at the very last minute,
39:06
Speaker 1: at a time that I was going to already be
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Speaker 1: out of town. Now I told him, I said, I
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Speaker 1: would like to join it you, but I have made
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Speaker 1: plans that I'm going to be out of town. That's
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Speaker 1: when we went to the Jazz Festival in New Orleans.
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Speaker 1: Is when that happened, and we had made plans to
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Speaker 1: do that for about rox months.
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Speaker 3: You brought Chris Baker back of Voodoo Dolls.
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Speaker 1: I brought Chris Baker a Voodoo doll back, Yes, I did.
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Speaker 2: But they did tell me.
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Speaker 1: His office did tell me that they would find a
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Speaker 1: time for me to come and sign it, and I
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Speaker 1: said I would love to do it, and I never
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Speaker 1: heard back from him again.
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Speaker 3: Very interesting.
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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, Well, we're wrapping up the show here on
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Speaker 4: a Wednesday. Is there anything that you can tease for
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Speaker 4: the rest of the week.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, we have a real interesting guest tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: His name is Dennis Crawford. He is attorney, he's an author.
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Speaker 1: And he called and he said, after I had Mary
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Speaker 1: barretton who talked a lot about being a lifelong Democrat
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Speaker 1: becoming an independent, he said, I was a lifelong Republican
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Speaker 1: and became a Democrat, would you let me tell my story?
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Speaker 2: And I said, sure, let's hear it. And so I
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Speaker 2: really want to hear what.
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Speaker 1: He has to say. And he will be on tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I talked to him on the phone. Very nice guy.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see what he has to say. And then
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Speaker 1: also on Monday, although we've got a ways for Monday,
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Speaker 1: Jay Lund will be on. Jay Lund's company is Greenslate Management,
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Speaker 1: and Jay developed the cottonwood and he also developed the blackstone,
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Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about that. But that is
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Speaker 1: it for us today. We're so glad that you joined us.
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Speaker 1: We'd love for you to join us again tomorrow. I'm
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Speaker 1: Jean Stothard and this is eleven ten kfab