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Nebraska Football Starts · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Gene Stothert. Peyton Heilach, my producer,
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  Speaker 1: is also here. Good morning, Peyton.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Gene.
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  Speaker 1: And Peyton is dressed in red today for the big
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  Speaker 1: game tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, I already got my Nebraska gear on.
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  Speaker 1: You do. You've changed out of your soccer gear, and
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  Speaker 1: now you are in Go Big Red gear. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that in a little bit, and the traffic, too.
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  Speaker 1: But we want to hear from you today. We want
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  Speaker 1: to get your feedback. We want to hear your comments, concerns, questions, complaints.
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  Speaker 1: Anything goes. City, state, national, or the world. And we
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  Speaker 1: will have plenty of good guests. Wait until I tell
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  Speaker 1: you who's going to be on next week. We have
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  Speaker 1: some good guests next week, but You will always hear
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  Speaker 1: plenty of opinions from me, but it is your chance
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  Speaker 1: to speak up and sound off. So you can send
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  Speaker 1: your emails to comment at kfab.com. You can call us
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  Speaker 1: at 402-558-1110, or you can leave us a recorded message
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  Speaker 1: on the talkback mic, and we will play it on
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  Speaker 1: the air. We are so happy that you are with
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  Speaker 1: us today. And Peyton was just telling me he needs
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  Speaker 1: a private duty nurse at his house, which I could
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  Speaker 1: do that. because I was a nurse, but he loves
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  Speaker 1: to cook, as I do, and I am growing tomatoes
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  Speaker 1: at my house, my husband and I. I bring them
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  Speaker 1: into Cafe B's studio about every other day, but Peyton,
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  Speaker 1: a knife and a tomato had a run in last night,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the knife won.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jean, it definitely got the better of me, and
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  Speaker 3: we got some new knives. Thank you very much for
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  Speaker 3: that gift from the wedding, and.
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  Speaker 2: They are Blaringly sharp. I mean, very, very sharp.
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  Speaker 1: Like a scalpel, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: Like a scalpel, and it got me good, and I
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  Speaker 3: was bleeding all night. Almost cut my finger off.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that is not good.
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  Speaker 2: I almost didn't make it.
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  Speaker 1: You almost didn't make it. Well, you know what? I
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  Speaker 1: could always have 911 come in if you fall out
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  Speaker 1: of your chair this morning. If you fall out of
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  Speaker 1: your chair and can't run that soundboard, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to make it either. So just get that in your.
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  Speaker 2: Mind, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: You could find a way to talk the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the hour.
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  Speaker 1: I do not know about that. But anyway, Gene Stothert
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  Speaker 1: and Kevin O'Rourke are growing the best tomatoes in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And so I do bring them in all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a secret to this. If anybody wants to
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  Speaker 1: know my secret, I'll let them know, but we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about my tomatoes today. But the big
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  Speaker 1: game is tomorrow. First game, Saturday, the 5th, 11 a.m.,
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio Bobcats and the Nebraska Cornhuskers. And what is
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  Speaker 1: the big question on everybody's mind beside the game, how
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  Speaker 1: the game is going to turn out, is the traffic.
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  Speaker 1: And so I did try to get a hold– and
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  Speaker 1: I heard back from my good friend who is the
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  Speaker 1: mayor of Lincoln, Mayor Lirian Gaylord Brown, with the city
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  Speaker 1: of Lincoln. And she's very busy because she's preparing her
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  Speaker 1: state of the city address. I know exactly where– how
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  Speaker 1: that goes. But Mayor Lirian is going to be on
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  Speaker 1: my show, the mayor of Lincoln. I know we have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Lincoln listeners today. She's going to come
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  Speaker 1: to Omaha and be on the show in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's going to be a really fun interview.
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  Speaker 1: Her and I, we know each other very well. We're
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  Speaker 1: friends politically. We are as different as night and day,
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  Speaker 1: but we still have remained friends. And she's going to
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  Speaker 1: be in the studio around the end of October. She
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  Speaker 1: is preparing for her State of the City address in Lincoln,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought as she comes to the studio, we
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  Speaker 1: can just do a little State of the City address
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  Speaker 1: for the City of Lincoln. I did that a lot
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  Speaker 1: when I was mayor, a little mini State of the Cities,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's really interesting to hear what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in Lincoln. And so she will be in the studio,
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  Speaker 1: but she did get me in contact with their public
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  Speaker 1: works department. They call it the Lincoln Transportation and Utilities Department.
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  Speaker 1: They were very, very helpful, and I think what people
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  Speaker 1: are really worried is these hordes of people drive down
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  Speaker 1: to Lincoln tomorrow morning for the game. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of work going on on the interstate right now, and
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  Speaker 1: people are very concerned about it. It is– well, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you what I found out, so I think
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  Speaker 1: it's good news for all of us. The NDOT, the
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska Department of Transportation, is meeting with the city of
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln today, but not till 11. So maybe Chris can
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  Speaker 1: get this on his show right when we're going off
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  Speaker 1: the air. And they are talking about the potential of
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  Speaker 1: opening up exit 401 into downtown just tomorrow, just for
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  Speaker 1: the game. So that may happen. They will make that
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  Speaker 1: decision today. So keep in tune to that because if
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  Speaker 1: you are driving down there, that exit 401 into downtown
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  Speaker 1: may be opened up for the game tomorrow, which I
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  Speaker 1: think is probably good. Good news for everybody. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: other thing that I did find out, and I got
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  Speaker 1: a very long press release that the city of Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: did just put out. They sent it to me, too.
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  Speaker 1: And it did say, again, that they are meeting at
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  Speaker 1: 11 a.m. today. They also said there is an I
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  Speaker 1: pronto shuttle bus that people from Omaha can take to
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  Speaker 1: the game if they don't want to drive. And they
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  Speaker 1: said this is the first year they are offering this service.
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  Speaker 1: And that info is in their release too. Peyton, can
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  Speaker 1: we put this press release up for everybody to see?
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  Speaker 1: We could do that later today? Yeah. Okay, we will
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  Speaker 1: do that later today. But it's a pretty long press
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  Speaker 1: release from, like I said, from their Transportation and Utility Department.
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  Speaker 1: But they are saying that they are ready for the
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  Speaker 1: game against Ohio tomorrow. They said both Lincoln Transportation and Utilities,
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  Speaker 1: the Lincoln Police Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department, The
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska Department of Transportation, that's the NDOT, the Nebraska State
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  Speaker 1: Patrol are all working together to improve the traffic experience
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  Speaker 1: on game day. And they said the city will provide
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  Speaker 1: traffic control on the Lincoln streets while the NDOT will
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  Speaker 1: help coordinate traffic on I-80 and I-180. and coordination efforts
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  Speaker 1: include traffic planning, pre- and post-game messaging, planned lane and
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  Speaker 1: ramp closures, and incident management. And so they provide quite
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  Speaker 1: a few links to where you can read a bit
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  Speaker 1: more about this for maps and et cetera that you
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  Speaker 1: are interested in and need to know about. They said
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  Speaker 1: some of the important reminders are, are that visitors are
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  Speaker 1: encouraged to plan their routes into Lincoln ahead of time
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  Speaker 1: and give yourself at least an additional 30 minutes because
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  Speaker 1: of all the construction. They did explain what this iPronto is,
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  Speaker 1: and it is a private charter service. It has replaced
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  Speaker 1: the Star Trans Big Red Express Husker game day shuttles
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  Speaker 1: into the campus, and you can find more about that
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  Speaker 1: on iPronto.com, and then it's slash Nebraska Huskers. And you
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  Speaker 1: could get more information about that. Reminding people that University
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  Speaker 1: of Nebraska enforces that clear bag policy. That's on there too.
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  Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of good information. It does
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  Speaker 1: say here's some route options into Lincoln. They do provide
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  Speaker 1: a map, but I'm just going to read what they
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  Speaker 1: are suggesting right now, and then we will post this.
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  Speaker 1: And it says, visitors from Omaha or from the Northeast
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  Speaker 1: have four exit options off of I-80. They include the
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln Airport exit, which is 399, the 27th Street exit,
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  Speaker 1: which is 403, the 56th Street exit, which is 405,
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  Speaker 1: and Waverly, which is 409. The Lincoln Airport exit, which
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  Speaker 1: is 399, and the 27th Street exit, 403, have no
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  Speaker 1: construction impacting these routes. And then they go on to
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  Speaker 1: talk about visitors from other parts of the state. And
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  Speaker 1: so I think this is really good information. It's really detailed,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want to read it all on the air.
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  Speaker 1: But we will get this posted so you could look
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  Speaker 1: at it. I'll let Chris Baker get it, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: he could talk about it repeated on his show too today.
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  Speaker 1: And then hopefully we will be able on the Baker
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  Speaker 1: show to talk about what the NDOT decided about exit
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  Speaker 1: 401 into downtown.
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  Speaker 2: That's very good information, Jean.
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  Speaker 3: We'll definitely get that posted on kfab.com and probably– it
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be a bad idea for the Instagram and the
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  Speaker 3: Facebook pages as well. And I mean, the message there
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  Speaker 3: is leave 30 to 60 minutes earlier than you normally do.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing is with this 11 a.m. kickoff, I
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  Speaker 3: know people personally that get up six, 7 a.m. drive
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  Speaker 3: down to Lincoln right away and, and, and get ready
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  Speaker 3: for that early kickoff at 11 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Sure they do. That's part of the experience.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of the experience.
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  Speaker 3: So I know it's an early kickoff 11 a.m. But, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 3: get up, get out there early so you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, this press release that we will
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  Speaker 1: post from the city of Lincoln is so detailed. It
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  Speaker 1: even gives all the areas that they suggest that you
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  Speaker 1: can park and how much the parking costs in each
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  Speaker 1: one of those areas. They give you a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other information on this, this press release. And so anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we will make sure that we get that up. But
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  Speaker 1: I think it's, It's good for us all to know.
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  Speaker 1: That's the big question I think on everybody's mind is, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, there's that construction down there. So I just
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  Speaker 1: did get a message here I was going to look
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  Speaker 1: at real quick. And it said that, yeah, this comes
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  Speaker 1: from Hawkins Construction, one of my favorite construction companies. But
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  Speaker 1: it says, as we understand it, the traffic– this is
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  Speaker 1: not a project that Hawkins is doing because they do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our interstates. They are not involved in
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  Speaker 1: this project. But the traffic problem is due to multiple
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  Speaker 1: local road closures immediately around the stadium compounded by the
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  Speaker 1: NDOT's bridge work on I-80, which is severely limiting the
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  Speaker 1: traffic flow. So there's multiple. road closures around the stadium
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  Speaker 1: along with the work on I-80. It says Hawkins is
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  Speaker 1: not doing that work, but there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good alternate routes, which we just talked about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they already got a lot of construction going on
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  Speaker 3: near the stadium. But then they also have a choke
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  Speaker 3: point getting off the interstate, which will just make their
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  Speaker 3: two different things.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like it's going to be a little dicey.
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  Speaker 3: If you leave early enough, you'll figure it out, and
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like there will be plenty of manpower there
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  Speaker 3: to guide you and get you in safely.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and that's what we want, and that's what they
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  Speaker 1: want down in Lincoln too. And so anyway, that's our
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  Speaker 1: news about that. If you have any questions or comments
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  Speaker 1: or want to talk about that, sure. Call us and
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  Speaker 1: email us and we'll continue getting information out there to you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: another thing I want to talk about, completely different subject,
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  Speaker 1: cake pops. If you were listening to Scott Voorhees, there
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  Speaker 1: was a guest on this morning that was selling cake
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  Speaker 1: pops out of her home. This was about on 188
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  Speaker 1: that was in Sarpy, South of Harrison in Cottonwood, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: You got it. She was selling cake pops. pops, cake
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  Speaker 1: pops out of her home. The HOA did tell her
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  Speaker 1: that she couldn't do that. It violated their bylaws or
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  Speaker 1: violated their covenants. So I did a little research this
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  Speaker 1: morning and talked to the law department. And I asked
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  Speaker 1: the questions about, are HOAs governed by state or city law?
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  Speaker 1: And do they have to be registered with the city?
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  Speaker 1: And if they create their own bylaws and covenants, are
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  Speaker 1: those bylaws punishable by law? And I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: the question is going to end up being. So the
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  Speaker 1: answer was not really either. This is the facts here
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  Speaker 1: from the City of Omaha Law Department. But they said
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska does not have an HOA statute and they do
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  Speaker 1: not have to register with the City of Omaha. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go with that. They might have to register
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  Speaker 1: with the state of Nebraska, not the city, but the state,
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  Speaker 1: if they are incorporated or if they are a nonprofit,
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  Speaker 1: but not if they're just a simple HOA. Planning Department
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  Speaker 1: in the city of Omaha, they have a voluntary neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: association directory, but that doesn't necessarily include all of the HOAs.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that from experience. They said that HOAs
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  Speaker 1: do create their own bylaws and covenants, which the homeowners
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  Speaker 1: sign on to and they agree to, but there is
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  Speaker 1: no criminal violation. But it is a contract just between
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  Speaker 1: the homeowner and the HOA. And so if you have
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  Speaker 1: an HOA and you have signed on to it, you
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  Speaker 1: are saying that you agree to their bylaws and their covenants,
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  Speaker 1: but there is no criminal violation if you violate those covenants.
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  Speaker 1: And it says that– it goes on to say that
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  Speaker 1: the covenants do get filed, however, with your deed in
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  Speaker 1: the Register of Deeds office with the city of Omaha.
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  Speaker 1: So when you file your deed and you register with
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  Speaker 1: the city of Omaha, those covenants get filed with them,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not criminally punishable whatsoever. by law, by the
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  Speaker 1: law department or by the city of Omaha. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's good information to have because they talked about this
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  Speaker 1: HOA issue with the cake pops. And then it got
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  Speaker 1: into more of a bigger discussion. Well, what about the
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  Speaker 1: kids in their lemonade stands? Is that a violation? Or
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  Speaker 1: wonder if the kids were selling cake pops. Is that
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  Speaker 1: a violation? Or what about garage sales? Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some HOAs won't, they say that you can't do a
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  Speaker 1: garage sale. They will say that. Or you can't run
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  Speaker 1: a business out of your home. I guess that's what
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  Speaker 1: they are accusing this woman with her cake pops is
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  Speaker 1: violating the HOA that says you can't run a business
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  Speaker 1: from your home. You know what my kids used to do?
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  Speaker 1: My kids are little entrepreneurs. So we live on Oak
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  Speaker 1: Hills Golf Course. And when my kids were little, they
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  Speaker 1: would get empty egg cartons and they would fill them
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  Speaker 1: with 12 golf balls. And they would sit out in
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  Speaker 1: my backyard and they would try to sell cartons of
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  Speaker 1: golf balls. Aren't they little entrepreneurs?
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  Speaker 3: If I came past your kids selling golf balls, they
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  Speaker 3: would definitely get some business from me.
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  Speaker 2: I would need some.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them are brand-new golf balls too, and they
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  Speaker 1: would wipe them off. They would make sure they were
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  Speaker 1: all clean, and they would have all of these egg
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  Speaker 1: cartons with a dozen golf balls in it. But we
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  Speaker 1: used to get golf balls in our yard all of
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  Speaker 1: the time. So anyway– So that's the issue about HOAs
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  Speaker 1: and about what the law is. But I think that
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  Speaker 1: those that are on the HOAs that create these bylaws,
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  Speaker 1: it does seem that sometimes things get stretched to the
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  Speaker 1: nth degree. I know when I put a fence around
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  Speaker 1: my backyard because I have two dogs. I had two dogs.
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  Speaker 1: I have one dog now. And I had to get
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  Speaker 1: approval of the type of fence that I put around
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  Speaker 1: my backyard, not only from the HOA, but from the
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  Speaker 1: golf course too, from the Oak Hills. So I had
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  Speaker 1: to get approval from both. Now, I do know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of HOAs, the main thing they are concerned with,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, is the color of the house, the
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  Speaker 1: color of the roof, parking a big RV out in
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  Speaker 1: the street or having your yard full of trucks, things
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  Speaker 1: like that. You know, I think my HOA says something
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  Speaker 1: like it should be natural looking colors or paint or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is. I remember it out at Linden Estates.
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  Speaker 1: Right when you drive into Linden Estates off of 144th Street,
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  Speaker 1: there is a house right when you drive in that
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  Speaker 1: main entrance over to the left that is painted pink
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  Speaker 1: and purple on the outside. And I remember that was
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  Speaker 1: an issue that was challenged by the HOA because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't want a pink and purple house there. Actually, it's
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  Speaker 1: really kind of pretty, but it doesn't– it's all done
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  Speaker 1: really fancy, fancy, but it doesn't really go in the
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  Speaker 1: general look of the neighborhood. And that's a pretty nice
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood out there.
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  Speaker 2: I hear you, Jean.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get in a phone call here, 402-558-1110. Bruce, you
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  Speaker 3: are now live with Jean Stothert here on 1110 KFAB.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you for taking my call. And, Gene, I
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  Speaker 4: thought you did a wonderful job as mayor of the
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  Speaker 4: 12 years you were in office. So thank you for
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  Speaker 4: your service.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm calling because I have been involved in the city
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  Speaker 4: indirectly through some private partnerships and building some parks. In
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  Speaker 4: Seymour Smith in 2009, I built an area called All
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  Speaker 4: Play Complex, a park for children with special needs. And
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  Speaker 4: we have a playground, a water park, and a couple
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  Speaker 4: of fields. And then in 2016, up in Benson Park,
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  Speaker 4: I helped the city raise money and build an area
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  Speaker 4: that you helped dedicate. It's called All Play, and it
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  Speaker 4: has a little water park and a playground and a
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  Speaker 4: fishing pier. The city has degraded its service to those
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  Speaker 4: two specific areas and the remaining parks in the city
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  Speaker 4: by the use of these portable toilets. And the number
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  Speaker 4: of the portable toilets available in the various areas, particularly
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  Speaker 4: the two that I work with, but I know in
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  Speaker 4: other parks also, and the frequency of the cleaning. And lastly,
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  Speaker 4: the installation of those portable toilets and their removal. They've
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  Speaker 4: been installing those toilets in mid-May almost to 1st of
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  Speaker 4: June when the parks become active the 1st of April.
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  Speaker 4: They pull them out in September when the parks continue
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  Speaker 4: to be used through late October and The number of
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  Speaker 4: the toilets are minimal. They're always in disrepair or unkept
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  Speaker 4: and unclean because their frequency of the cleanings is inadequate.
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  Speaker 4: And it was a policy that kind of degraded over
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: the years. And last year, it really took a downturn.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: And this year, it's even worse. Can you tell me
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: a little bit about the decision-making process and the policy
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: through Public Park's of how they want to manage that
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: and how they should manage that and what they should
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: do that they're not. Can you speak to that.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: A little bit?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I can speak to that very little because I will
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: go back to what I have been complaining about for
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: over a year now, and the city of Omaha does
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: not have a parks director. The parks director was let
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: go by Mayor Ewing after Mayor Ewing's first month in office.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Matt Kalcevich was the parks director before that. It was
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Brooke Bench. They both did a fantastic job. And if
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I would ever hear anything like you were telling me,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I would go to them right away and I would say,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: get this fixed and do it right away. But there's
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: really nobody to go to now. There's an interim. There
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: was an interim parks director. Now they have an interim
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: parks director that is an economic developer, and I just
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: don't know why. I think they're on their third national
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: search for a parks director now. And so it's really
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: hard to deal with what the policy is now and
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: what it will be or what it's changed to be,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: why it's not being maintained, why those things aren't being
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: kept clean. There should be a policy for all of that.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: But without a director, it's hard to know what direction
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: they're going. And I hate hearing stuff like this because
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: especially someone like you that has put a lot of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: time and effort in raising money and creating something for
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: all of us. to use. And then using these portable
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: porta-potties and not keeping them clean and not keeping them
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: maintained is not good news. I mean it just looks terrible.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I just can't tell you what their plan is to
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: do for that right now. And I know– I remember
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: up in Benton when we dedicated that and then– Right
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: after that, if you recall, the fountain was a big
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: deal too in Benson. And then right after that, we
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: had trouble with the splash ground in the water park.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: We had trouble with the fountain. They've had trouble up
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: in that area. But if it's not been fixed yet,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: because I haven't been up to Benson Park in a while,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: that's really concerning to me. The only thing that I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: would really recommend you do is one of two things.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Number one, I would call the mayor's hotline. And say,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I want to complain about this. And number two, I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: would contact the city council member in that area. And
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that would be City Council District 2. So that would
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: be– I'm blanking right now. I'm going to come right
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: back with it. That's– LaVanya Goodwin. I knew I'd think
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: of it in a minute. My brain's not working well
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: this morning. LaVanya Goodwin is the council member for that area.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I would definitely contact her and I would contact the hotline,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: mayor's hotline, which is 444-5555. I would do both of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: those things right now. But the real problem is, is
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: they do not have a leader in the parks department
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Gene Stothert and the KFAB comment line will return after
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Fox News. And now breaking is in the Lindsey Clancy trial.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: A mistrial.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: The judge has declared a mistrial.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Well, we are back and we were, Peyton and I
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: are just watching the breaking news about the Lindsey Clancy trial.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: The jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: murder trial. The judge is asking for, or the defense
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: attorney is asking for one hour. I guess he's requesting
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: for some sort of a stay. The judge has not
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: yet dismissed the jury or has not yet called the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: jury back into the courtroom. Very interesting case here. Obviously,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: if they declare a mistrial, it's a hung jury. The
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: prosecutor will want to know the jury count. We've talked
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: about this before. As of yet, I think we're speculating
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: on what the jury count was, but– If it's like 11-1,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: they might retry it or dismiss it. It's just hard
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to tell which way the jury was deadlocked. And so
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the defense attorney is wanting to get rid of the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: one juror that was the holdout, whichever direction they were
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: holding out, and replace it. And so I guess we'll
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: have to wait for the next hour to see what
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the defense attorney does. Quite an interesting case going on here.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: So we will watch that for sure. Peyton, yesterday I
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: was given a couple emails and a couple screenshots of
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a very large sign that was on 84th and Center
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: on the bridge right across from Westside Middle School. And
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: what– first of all, which was disturbing to me, is
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: it had an upside-down American flag. And then I'm going
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to say this very carefully because we are on the air.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: It said Trump is a limp dictator. Only the word
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: dictator was separated. So you all know what I mean.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: It was creatively done.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Creatively done.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, it was.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: And so I did contact the city council member in
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: that area, and I also contacted the state legislator in
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that area so that they were aware. But I also
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: did contact Public Works, which I still know how to do,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and they were heading out there immediately.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And so hopefully that is down. But how disturbing is that?
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: That right there by the middle school, hanging over Center
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Street there. And when did they do this is the thing.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: It seems like there's always traffic going down Center Street
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: in that area. And didn't somebody see somebody hanging over
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the bridge trying to hang this stuff up?
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I guess. I saw this photo during the Chris Baker show.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: It was posted during the Chris Baker show, and then
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I didn't see it on my social medias until after
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: the show. It was visible if you were driving eastbound
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: on center. And I just find it very concerning because
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: that overpass or that walking overpass is designed for those
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: middle school students to cross center in the safest possible way.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely it was.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: And this reminds me, Gene, of a poster or a
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: sign that was taken down a few months ago back
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: in March. And this was on I-80 on the 96th
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Street overpass. This is a road bridge, you could call it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: And it said, America first. And the way that it
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: was told in the media by Channel 3 KMTV, quote,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: a white nationalist banner connected to Patriot Front was found
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: hanging over Interstate I-80. A white nationalist banner connected to
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Patriot Front. And I said America first. Ultimately, you're not
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: allowed to hang these signs no matter what it says.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: No, you are not.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: It could say Go Big Red and it would still
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: be taken down. You're not allowed to hang those signs up.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: No, not at all. But like I said, I wonder
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: when they were taking the time to hang it up,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: didn't somebody see this going on? But good lord.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: The upside down American flag is really what did it
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: for me too.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. So– and we have been talking on
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: this show so much about the upcoming elections. But once
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: again– Boy, is it important to pay attention. Pay attention
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to these commercials. Don't believe everything that you're hearing. Our
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: job as voters is to make sure we understand who
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: is running and what they stand for and what they're
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: going to do and how they're going to do it.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: That's another thing that during campaigns, people can, many candidates
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: will say, I'm going to lower your taxes. I'm going
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: to make your cost of living better. I'm going to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: make your city safer, and I'm going to get all
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: your streets paved, and there's not going to be any
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: more potholes, etc., But then your question should be fine.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: You're telling me what you want to do now, but
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: now you need to tell me how you're going to
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: do it because a lot of times candidates will also
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: give you a lot of empty promises when they are
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: running for an elected office. I will go back to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: my last race when Mike McDonald's big thing was stopping
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the streetcar race. which we all know he had no
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: way to stop the streetcar, but that's what he was
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: saying so that you would vote for him. And so
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: keep these things in mind, too. Go to their debates.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Get on their webpages and ask them questions. See how
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: they answer these things because we need to be informed voters,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: number one. And then number two. It's our responsibility to
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: get out there and vote. When the primary happened here
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: in May, the voter turnout in Douglas County was 26%.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: And this is way too important for the future of
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: our country for us not to be really involved, really informed,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and also to get out there and vote. So know
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: what these candidates are saying. I know yesterday I talked
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a lot about Denise Powell's new commercial accusing Brinker of
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: about four or five different things. Brinker Harding, her opponent,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and every one of them she is accusing him of
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: is not true. And so, you know, that Brinker Harding
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: will do everything Donald Trump tells him to do. How
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: does she, does she see into the future here? I
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: don't know how she is actually getting by with saying
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: these things or saying that Brinker Harding wants higher health
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: care premiums or Brinker Harding loves war. These things are
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: just made up to catch your attention to get a vote.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: So politics is really getting to be a blood sport.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: You know what I think can also be a blood
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: sport is HOA.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: HOAs can be a blood sport too, yes.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: And Brett here has a comment about HOA and his experience. Brett,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: thank you for the call and hanging on. You are
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: live with Gene Stothert here on KFAB.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just wanted to call. On coincidence, I just
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: got my letter from HOA yesterday regarding my property. And
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: some of these HOAs really get, I think, out of line.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: and push their power, I've been receiving letters from them
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: for 13 years. And they filed to take me to court,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: in which we paid attorneys for two years, and then
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: the day before they dropped the court case because they
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: were going to lose. And they went as far as
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: to call the police on us several times, and the
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: police thought it was ridiculous. They finally came to us,
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: the police did, and said, our boss is tired of
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: your HOA calling, can you do something about them?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Can I ask you what they were sending you letters about?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: What specific issue did they have with your property?
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: It was a trailer that I used for work that
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: sits in my driveway.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: But it's gone during the day, it's there at night.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: But the real kicker is, once we got into, we
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: let them take us to court, and... they have no
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: covenants to enforce. They expired decades ago. They never renewed them,
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: and now they're kind of in a bind.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I could see how they would be in a bind.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Well, to this day, they're still enforcing and sending out
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: letters to residents in the neighborhood and enforcing covenants that
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: they don't have. And I actually have a letter from
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: their attorney saying, to them stating, you can't call these covenants.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: You don't have any covenants.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: Name it something else or do something else. But still,
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: I get a file full of letters. I spent thousands
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: of dollars on attorneys. They knew they'd lose, so they
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: dropped it the day before and didn't even tell us
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: about it.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Interesting. Thanks for sharing that with us. And, you know,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: like I said before, they do create their own bylaws
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and covenants. Some do. I mean, obviously, yours has expired,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: which usually they will require a homeowner to sign on
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: to or agree to. But keep in mind this. I
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: know you said that they have taken you to court,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: but there is no criminal record. violation. It's a contract
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: between you, the homeowner, and the HOA, but it does
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: get filed with your deed in the registered deeds office.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: So it's interesting what some of these HOAs do. I
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: know in my neighborhood, I think the only thing that
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I can really think of is that, well, one is
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: they don't like trailers or trucks in driveways. They don't
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: like cars parked out on the street. I know they have...
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: They suggest what color your house is painted. So it
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: could be natural colors, browns, grays, whatever. If you replace
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: your roof, they have covenants on what kind of roof.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: But they're pretty standard, I think, covenants. Usually each HOA does,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: when they create their bylaws, though, they do have an
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: attorney go through those. But sorry you've been in all
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of these issues with them.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I'm yet to buy my first house, Jean, but man,
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: oh man, these HOAs sound like a lot of work.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm going to pass on the HOA neighborhood.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what? A lot of them are meant
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to do good. They take care of any common ground
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: that you have. Say if you have common ground that
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: needs mowing or or they do any beautification with flowers
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: or anything like that. And I think that some of
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: their covenants about, say, the color of your house or whatever,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: that's okay. I know there was an issue with my
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: HOA when we first moved in that one of the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: homeowners or one of the landowners was going to build
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: a house in my neighborhood and it was a very
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: beautiful design it was a like a frank lloyd wright
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: type of design if you know what that means um
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: but um It has a lot of wood on it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have a whole lot of brick on it.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: But anyway, the homeowners association did not want that house
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: built in the neighborhood. And I remember that was a
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: big squabble for quite a while. And the landowner that
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: built the house actually won that one. And it's beautiful.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a beautiful house. But there was a
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: big fight over it because they wanted more traditional looking houses.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: But then you think, as you said, Peyton, if you
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: went out and you spent a gazillion dollars on land
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and you want to spend a lot more on building
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: a house of your dreams, it's kind of hard to say, well,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: now you've been turned down because they don't like the
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: looks of what your design is. I know you would
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: want it to fit into the neighborhood. I mean you
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: don't want something totally crazy. But at the same time,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: it's your property and private property owners do have rights.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: And you got to keep that in mind, too.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, they do.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: One segment left to go here on the KFAB Comment
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Line with your host, Gene Stothert.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: My name is Peyton Highlock. Much more to come ahead.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Live from the Gary Saddlemeyer studio here at Top 10.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: The wonderful Dundee building.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Didn't Gary used to call it the penthouse studio?
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: The penthouse studio.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: If you all would see this studio, it's far from that,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: but I'm glad Gary calls it the penthouse. Peyton and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I are in the Gary Sattelmeyer studio sitting right here
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: staring at each other every morning. So this is so
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: much fun being on this show, though. There's seven stations
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: that broadcast out of this building. And I tell you,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you come in here every morning. Everybody's in a good mood.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Everybody's smiling. Everybody's talking to each other. It's a great atmosphere.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I was in this studio so many times as mayor.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And if you know you're going to be grilled by
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Jim Rose on something, it's kind of scary coming in here. But,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: you know, I got used to it. And it's a
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: great opportunity, too, to get information out. And speaking of that,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I have we are going to be all of us.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Scott Voorhees has given us pretty much the day off
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: on Monday because it is Labor Day. So I think
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: we will have fill-ins of Glenn Beck and all those
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: other famous people. You'll probably want to hear Glenn Beck
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: more than you want to hear Gene Stoddard, but whatever.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: But anyway, Peyton and I will be back Tuesday, and
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday in the studio, we are going to have
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Brett Lindstrom, and we're going to talk to him about
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: running for governor for America First Party. And Wednesday, we're
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: going to have Governor Jim Pellin. And so we're going
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: to try to fill up the rest of the week
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: with guests too. But I think that'll be an interesting
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: conversation with both of them because it's not long and
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: this election is going to be on top of us. Also,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I wanted to remind you once again that with Clark Ross,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: who is a dear friend and who has started up
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the group that is really a group of business owners downtown.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: There's probably... of 120 or so business owners that have
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: joined the Street Car Impact Alliance, the SIA. And they
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: are having an event. Now, this is during the Husker game,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: but I want to tell you about it again. It'll
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: be this Saturday, tomorrow, September 5th, 16th Street from Harney
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: to Farnham from 2 to 8 p.m. Free to attend, food, drinks,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: small businesses owned, Opera Omaha, Omaha Symphony, Backline Comedy Club
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: will all be there. Balloon animals for the kids, face painting,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff. Free parking on the meters around
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: the event. Garage parking downtown will be a dollar. And
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: so I just want to remind you that these businesses
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: have gotten together and are trying to say it's still
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: okay and safe and good to come downtown Omaha. And
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: then you can all look at those streetcar rails that
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: are going in downtown that when that construction is over,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: it's going to be grand.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. And in regards to Brent Lindstrom coming in on
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Tuesday next week and Governor Jim Pillen on Wednesday, if
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: you have anything that you would like to ask or
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: a topic that you think would be important to discuss,
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: absolutely reach out, send us an email, comment at kfab.com.
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  Speaker 3: And even though it's a few days or over the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: we can still Come back to those because I think
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  Speaker 3: that there's a lot of importance from you guys that
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  Speaker 3: would be good to ask. some of those candidates running
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  Speaker 3: for governor.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And, you know, I was going to mention that, Peyton,
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  Speaker 1: so thank you, because, again, this is your chance to
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  Speaker 1: speak up, sound off. So if you are thinking of
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  Speaker 1: questions that you want to ask Brett Lindstrom or you
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  Speaker 1: want to ask the governor, let's hear them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you could use that talkback mic, for example. Really easy
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  Speaker 1: to do if you think of things over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: But email us, call in on Tuesday and Wednesday. And
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  Speaker 1: we will get to your questions because you don't very
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  Speaker 1: often get a chance to directly question these candidates, especially
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  Speaker 1: a candidate for governor. And so listen to the show,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it will be a really good interview,
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  Speaker 1: and it's your chance to speak up and sound off,
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  Speaker 1: as we have said many times. One last thing since
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about– The Streetcar Impact Alliance, Peyton, having their
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  Speaker 1: event tomorrow downtown. There was an article on the front
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  Speaker 1: page of the World Herald just Wednesday that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to yet. But it is an article about streetcar
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  Speaker 1: revival has been mixed bag. And I thought when I
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  Speaker 1: first read the headline, I thought, thank goodness, hopefully the
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  Speaker 1: World Herald is going to give a positive story about
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  Speaker 1: the streetcar. But once again, it is– I would not
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  Speaker 1: say it's the most positive story yet. They continue to
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  Speaker 1: interview one guy named Tom Rubin. He said he's a
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  Speaker 1: transportation consultant who grew up in Omaha. They always will
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  Speaker 1: interview him because he's very negative towards the streetcar. But
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  Speaker 1: right on the front page, excuse me, they quote him
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  Speaker 1: as saying– Streetcars are basically built for the stakeholders, but
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  Speaker 1: the stakeholders are not the riders and they are not
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  Speaker 1: the taxpayers. You know, I never did agree with everything
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  Speaker 1: Tom Rubin said because he's got his mind made up.
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  Speaker 1: Streetcars are not a good thing at all. If you
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  Speaker 1: all remember when Warren Buffett came out and wrote a
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  Speaker 1: public pulse letter and and said he didn't support streetcars,
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  Speaker 1: everybody went, oh my gosh, Warren Buffett doesn't support it,
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  Speaker 1: and why are we doing this? I went in and
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  Speaker 1: talked to Warren Buffett about it, and first of all,
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  Speaker 1: he's a hoot, and he said, well, I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: that a letter to the public pulse would get on
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  Speaker 1: the front page. I'm like, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Buffett.
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  Speaker 2: You're Warren Buffett.
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  Speaker 1: You're Warren Buffett. Number two, he was saying he didn't
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  Speaker 1: like them for public transportation. He said, hey, I buy railroads.
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  Speaker 1: Streetcars are not good for public transportation. But that's not
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  Speaker 1: why we're building it in Omaha. We're building it to
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  Speaker 1: be a catalyst for economic development and just get people
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  Speaker 1: in around and out of downtown. And it is working
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  Speaker 1: for economic development. development. So boy, time flies when we're
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: having fun, Peyton. But that is it for us today.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you all for spending this hour
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  Speaker 1: with us. I did have more grandson stories, but they're
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: going to have to wait until next week. But we'd
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  Speaker 1: love for you to join us again. Peyton and I
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  Speaker 1: will be back on Tuesday with Brent Lindstrom. I'm Jean Stothert.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great Labor Day weekend. And this is 1110 KFAB.