March 31, 2026 • 41 mins
We spent time unpacking the No Kings protests that took place in Omaha and all 50 states. A caller also brought up a good point... why do expensive buildings have dirty windows??
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're going to have a great guest tomorrow, and Peyton's
with me. I should say hi to you. I didn't
even say hello, Hi, Peyton.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
How are you today.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm doing pretty good. There there's a road closed out
front of our building here, yes, there is, said a
little interesting getting in and out.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But I was able to creep around it. I said,
I'm getting you sell this road construction.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, yeah, City. You got out and moved the sign
and said I'm gonna drive on the here anyway.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
No, I obey.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
But when I was coming, I come up six point
eighty and boy, there was something going on on the
Dodge Expressway this morning, and I'm glad I took a
turn and went down Dodge Street. Because the traffic is bad,
and the traffic is bad downtown. We could talk about
that too, But for our listeners, this is your chance
to speak up and sound off. So if you want
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to send us an email today, send it to comment
at kfab dot com, or you can call us at
four O two five five eight eleven ten and we'll
take your call. But I did tell you about downtown too,
you know. I was downtown every day for twelve years
and then a lot before that. For four years on
the city council, so sixteen years, I spent a lot
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of time downtown. And I'll admit, just like everybody else,
it's pretty darn confusing down there. There's so much construction,
and as we said yesterday, replacing these gas and waterlines,
you literally have to tear up the streets. So there's
big holes, and there's barriers, and there's cones, and there's signs,
and it is very confusing. And even Jeene stothert that
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went downtown every day for twelve years. I said this before,
but I was meeting a friend downtown a couple of
weeks ago and I ended up in Iowa just because
I was turning here and turning here and turning here,
and all of a sudden, I'm thinking, holy cow, I'm
not in Omaha anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So I understand what people are saying.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
There's nothing more frustrating than when you are trying to
get someplace and get someplace place quickly and there's problems parking.
And I do understand what's going on with the businesses
down there, And if any of the business owners are listening,
you know, I welcome them to call in let us
know what it's like, how they're feeling.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean when you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Think that there's for instance, you know barbershops are beauty
salons along the way and they're shutting their water off,
I mean, what can they do? And so hopefully we'll
get a lot more information that we could share with
people to to let them know what the city is
doing and what is being done to move this project
on as quickly as we possibly can. I know it
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is soon that the tracks are going to start being
laid and the rails. You could see them on Farnham
Street just west of Eleventh Street now and they have
been working on welding those big sections together. Those rails
were actually purchased quite a while ago when I was mayor,
because we got a good price on them to purchase
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them at that time because as we know the price
of steel is going up and so those were bought
quite a while ago. But those are going to start
going in sometime soon to start with a capital loop
and that's not going to take as long as all
this infrastructure work. So I know it's a lot going
on downtown, but it's and it's a lot to deal with,
and so anybody listening as far as living down there,
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businesses down there. We sure welcome your calls and your
comments about downtown Omaha, because it is it's it's construction,
it's very very inconvenient for people. It will get better
and I and I guarantee you it'll be worth it
what everything is done. But the last thing I want
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is the businesses to have hardships and for businesses not
to remain open. And that's a big concern of everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We have a lot to get into. We have some
really good guests coming this week, like you mentioned already, dude,
So today is a really good opportunity for anyone listening
to ask a question that you have. Let's hear it today.
The first one I got is from Jeff. Jeff, You're
on news radio eleven ten KFAB with Gene Stouter.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Hey, Hey, I called in. I'm not I won't get
in the streetcar stuff, but on the bike lane stuff.
Nothing would make me happier than to drive down one
hundred and eighth Street or go downtown and seeing see
like the bike lanes full of bicyclists, you know, commuting
back and forth for work or recreation or anything like that.
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But it's such a pain point for me, and I
think anybody that I've ever talked to that when I
drive by any of these bike lanes, they're always empty
and they choke off the street. So what would have
to happen to undo this bike lane initiative that has
to me just been an epic failure.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You know, it's a really good question, and I will
tell you this, and I understand what you're saying, and
I agree. If you recall when we did that pilot
down Harney Street, and it was about an eighteen month
pilot pilot for a protected bike lane down Harney Street,
and remember we put cones up because we weren't going
to put it anything in the road to really protect it.
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I drive down Harney or I drove down Harney every
single day because that's where the parking garage was under
City Hall, and I felt the same thing, But it
depended on the time of day that I was driving
down Harney, because there are bikers that drive or ride
their bikes on it in early in the morning when
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it's time to go to work, and there's bikers on it,
in the afternoon when it's time to go home, and
there's bicyclers on it on the weekends and when there's
good weather. Now Omaha in particular, we have bad weather
in the winter, and you don't see a lot of
people riding their bikes on those bike lanes in the
winter time. And I thought, after that pilot was done,
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we had enough information that we needed on what we
needed to do as far as putting protected bike lanes,
and that I wanted to take the cones up and
stop that pilot right then.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And I got a lot of pushback from.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The bicycle community because they were saying, this is something
that is needed. So as mayor, what I wanted to
do is study where the best bike lanes would be
to be put in, especially to get in and around
and out of midtown and downtown, how we would pay for.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It, what they would look like.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But you always have to look at every way that
people commute, and that's just it. And you know right
now in Omaha at least eighty percent of the people
commute by car. So my first priority was to take
care of the roads. And we did, you know, had
a two hundred million dollar bond issue passed in May
of twenty twenty. It was reauthorized by a vote of
the people in twenty twenty four that was number one.
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But we also have to look at pedestrian traffic, We
have to look at bicycle traffic, We have to look
at all the ways people want to commute, and that's
just what a big and growing city does. The bike
lane that we are going to put in, a permanent
protected bike lane on Harney Street, the majority of it
is paid for by philanthropy, by private money, and so
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that was all always something that was on my mind
how it would be paid for. But if you look
at other cities that actually have protected bike lanes, and
that means it's a permanent protection. Whether it's something concrete
or I don't know, flower pods or something around there
that will protect the bicyclers. That's important too. One of
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the things I will tell you that we learned on
the pilot on Harney Street is which side of the
street to put that bike lane on. Because the side
of the street that we had it on, which was
the south side, stayed shaded most of the day, and
so in the winter it was icy and the snow
didn't melt, and we had a heck of a time
plowing that to keep it clear for those who wanted
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to ride their bikes, So it's going to be moved
to the north side because there was more sun on
the north side.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
So I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
A lot of times when I look at those bike lanes,
I don't see a lot of people and a lot
of bicyclers on it.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
But it's just like the bus system.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I hear that too, that I look at the buses
and I don't see a lot of people on it.
But indeed, there are millions of people that ride our
buses in Omaha every year.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I mean, we get those.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Numbers from Metro Transit so frustrating, but there are people
that use them.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
What I was thinking about, too, is there's a lot
of increased scooter usage downtown as well. Limescooters. Yes, and
everyone has seen a video or seen something go wrong
where someone is riding one of those pretty fast scooters
on a sidewalk and that's a collision waiting to happen,
because the sidewalks aren't designed for you to be ripping
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it that fast.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Those scooters are not supposed to be on the sidewalks.
Those scooters are supposed to move with the traffic in
the street exactly. And I will tell you when we
first started piloting the scooters, it was a nightmare to me.
I did not like those scooters at all. And the
very first day, one of our police officers sent me
a picture of a woman it was right up at
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Midtown who had fallen and she had a compound fracture
of her tibia and he took a picture of her
bone stick it out or shin and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No, this is what we're gonna be dealing with.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And at first it was so difficult. I saw women
on it with high heels.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I saw divas right there.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Two people at a time on these scooters.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I remember going out and talking to the mayor of
San Diego.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I was out there. It was for the christening of the.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Uss Omaha, but I talked to the mayor in San
Diego and he goes, I hate these scooters because he
said people leave them in the parks, and they throw
them in the water, and they throw them in the lakes,
and they throw them all over the place. So we
had a lot that we had to learn about using
these scooters. That we could get a company that would
clean them up and make sure that they were put
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back where they should be put back. And of course,
you know, we don't keep them in Omaha all winter
because nobody's going to be really riding those all winter,
So there's a time that they take them out, in
the time that they bring them back.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But again, people love him.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Have you ever taken one of them out for a
joy ride?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Never? No, nor well.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I you're telling me you've never hopped on one of
those things.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I stood on one for a picture one time. I
will never. No, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I thought, you know, it was pushing it for me
to do the Mayor's Bike Ride with a mayor of
Council Bluff and we did a bike ride around downtown
and I thought, okay, you're pushing me with that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'm not going to get on a scooter.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But you know, people, the people that like them, love them,
and they're really useful with things like the College World
series going on. I mean, people love them. There's a
lot of young people that come. They like scooting around
town on those scooters. And right now we really haven't
had with the company we have and the rules and
the process we have in place, who could get on
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that scooter. You got to show your driver's license, et cetera.
Things have really calmed down quite a bit. But at
first I thought it was a nightmare of what was
going to happen with those scooters.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well, I'm telling you, have you and your husband on
a weekend night, you go downtown, you ride the ride
the scooter, and you hit up a Coldstone ice cream.
That's a great date.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, that's gonna happen. No, my husband rides his bike
all the time. Kevin Ken's Kevin's out there riding his bike.
I don't even do that.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I exercise a lot and I work out twice a week.
But you're not going to catch me on that scooter,
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
We're gonna shift to the talkback Mike. Here. This is
talkback Mike. You can find this on the iHeartRadio app.
Tho's a little microphone. You can go ahead and send
us a message.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
And I got an idea for all the unlicensed cars
you see around town, Why don't we have a bounty.
So if a citizen sees somebody who's car's on license,
he gets like ten bucks for turning them in. That way,
there's motivation to report these people that aren't paying their
road taxes and they could just add ten bucks to
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the fee that the guy has to pay her registers
car and we can you handle it?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, you know you thanks for the call. I appreciate it,
and you know, I mean you certainly can still do that.
I mean you could call in the Mayor's hotline and
you could say, I saw here's a license plate that
I saw that was unlicensed. But you know, we used
to even have police officers that would patrol, say apartment
building parking lots looking for unlicensed or expired licenses on cars.
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They used to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
It came to, you know, when we had this the
issue of the low number of people applying for police
officers and having you know a real challenge with getting
people to apply and getting our numbers back up to
our authorized strength.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
The last thing that we wanted to.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Really do is take a large group of police officers
and having patrol parking lots looking for expired our cars
that were unlicensed. So you know, there is a late
fee that we started charging. Golly, I can't even remember
when that was. I believe it was when I was
on city council, so it was quite a while ago
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that if somebody applies for their license plate late, they
get charged for it. There's a fine, and we thought
that once we had a fine, that it would motivate
people to get their cars every year relicnsed on time.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And you know, it didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I mean, we still have the same amount of fines
that we collect every year for late fee for expired licenses, so,
you know, and then then we see people that live
here from others that actually live in other states.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Too, So that is an issue.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You know, you can certainly call the hotline and say,
you know, here's a license plate number that's expired.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
But at the same time, it to me it was.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Not a useful use of our police officers to patrol
as far as that goes, so anyway, but it is
an issue. And I know what you're saying, that would
be pretty fun though, A bounty bounty hunters.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
A little bounty hunter. I'm telling you, if if you
put a few people out, a few a little bit
of a word out, there'd be people out there that
would cut down those numbers of unregistered cars.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
But do they.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I mean, you always stop and have to think. You know,
we have traffic signals all over Omaha, do people always
abide by them?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's I always do every single time, do.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know I Well, I'm not even going to say
how old I am, but everybody knows how old I am.
I've been around a while, Peyton, I could be your grandma.
But I don't want to say that ever again. But
you know, I have never a knock on wood. Now
that cops are going to be looking for me because
they'd knock on wood. I have never had a speeding
ticket in my life. Really, I've never had a speeding ticket.
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I've never been in an accident in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That's impressive.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well, I'm telling you I follow those rules of the road.
But what my point was, we have speed limits, we
have traffic signals. People just I mean, and they're going
to get fined if they don't abide by them.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And people don't do it. I mean, people take a chance.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So I think a lot of times I'll take a
chance with not getting their cars licensed on time or
having an expired license.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But you know, sometimes you forget.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I mean a Douglas County treasure who used to be
John Ewing. They used to send out they would send
notices and people a lot of times people would say
I didn't get a notice or something, so somebody always
had an excuse. Yeah, you know, but you know, I know,
my husband just just recently said, oops, I got to
get my car done.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I got to get my license done. Almost forgot.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So people do forget, but it's something that you just
need to you need to get done.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
People are sending me all their horror stories on scooters,
but we're not going to talk about that anymore. Let's
go to Chuck here on the phone lines. So who
has a little bit about transportation? Chuck, You're on news
radio eleven ten KFAB with Jean Stouthart.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Hello, good morning.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yeah, hey, I hear about people, you know, kind of
criticizing bicycles and mass trans and I think, you know
what a wonderful city we could have. If you live
downtown and you don't need a car. Cars you're a
pain in the neck. They're really expensive if you get
in car accidents. And people that ride bikes and people
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that ride mass transit, you know, they pay taxes and
that money goes to roads. I mean, we paid one
hundred and seventeen million dollars for that overpass on god
Street Overpass one hundred and seventeenth Street or whatever, because
that thing is backed up every morning. When you see
people riding bikes, they are taking cars off the road.
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I love people that ride their cars to go to
their health spot so they can exercise. Well, if you
ride a bike or you walk on mass transit, you
get your exercise automatically. Look at the obesity rates in
this town. To go to a pancake house out in Millard,
look at the people. They're riding their cars everywhere they go.
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They're getting no exercise. If we live in a city
that wants to have no brain drain, you have to
have young people that can live without a car. And
you know you're not a novel idea. Go to New York,
go to Washington, d C. Go to Paris. They close
down a main street in Paris. It was five lanes
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through Ribley. Now it's one lane for cars and buses,
four lanes for bikes. People love it. The bikes pass
up the buses, they pass up the taxicabs, and their
bicyclists are everywhere you build a road, they will come.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I agree with you, and you know that's one of
the reasons that the street car is going in. When
I keep on seeing public pulse letters and emails of
people say it, it makes no sense. That is one
of the main reasons we're putting a street car in
downtown in midtown. And I've said this so many times before,
but right now down town half is dedicated to parking.
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I mean, that is not a good use of space
in an urban core. And if we want to attract
the young talent, and if we want to prevent brain drain,
and if we want to get new businesses into our downtown,
we have to take care of the parking problem, and
we have to provide transportation. And you know, when you say, well,
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how can you get young professionals to stay here after
they graduate from college or come here and want to
live in Omaha, you give them what they're looking for.
And what are young professionals looking for. They're looking for
affordable housing, they are they're looking for urban living. They're
looking for entertainment, They're were looking for walkability, they're looking
for public transportation. They're looking for all of those things
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in an urban core, in an urban setting. That's what
we're doing. We're trying to address the problem with the
You don't always need a car, because if you are
going to live downtown. Some of these great apartments are
these great places that are being rehab downtown, some beautiful places.
The big challenge is where am I going to park?
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And let me tell you, if you are in one
of the condominiums and you are paying for parking, the
parking like underneath your building, for example, it's outrageous the
cost for parking in an urban core. And so you
are so right though. You know when we built opened
up the oh my goodness, I'm blanking out. But the
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new big apartment complex down on tenth Street where Memoir
is at the base of it. A lot of those
folks that we're moving into those apartments down on tenth
Street worked at the Med Center and the Brookline, and
they said, we're moving here because we know that that
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street car is going to be here and it'll eventually
go up to the Med Center and we won't have
to have a car or we won't have to get
our cars out. And so that's one of the main
reasons that you do look at all the ways that
people want to commute. If you live downtown and you
wanted to go out to lunch or you wanted to
go to a show or something, and you don't want
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to get your car out and move it around. Then
you could either ride your bike, or you could walk,
or you could you know, ride the street car. You
need to make options available and that's what that's what
people really love about urban core living, and that's what
young professionals love that. We want to prevent the brain
drain and people from leaving our community. So there are
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a lot of advantages to public transportation.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Geene, this is a fun question for you. Okay, Oh boy,
My eight year old son has followed your career since
he was born. He's a big fan. One thing he
would like to know, what is your favorite dinosaur?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Oh? What a great question.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Well, I wish I knew his grandson's name, but I
would have to say a pterodactyl because they fly and
I like that.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I like to see them. And when you look.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
At the birds that are in the air, now you
know they are just scendence of the dinosaur. So there
you are, right there, So it's a pterodactyl. The thing
I didn't say one of those dinosaurs on the flintstones
or something.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Thank you courch again.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yes, okay, you know what before we take the rest
of the calls here, and I know we have plenty.
One of the things I just wanted to bring up,
and it's been talked about a lot lately, but is
the No King's Rally protests that went across our country
this weekend. It was on March twenty eighth, on Saturday,
the first one, I believe within October of I think
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it was in October of twenty five that we had,
but all fifty states took part in this this weekend.
It is estimated that eight to nine million protesters were
out on Saturday in record numbers, protesting against Donald Trump
and his administration. And you know, I had to look
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at the No King's site just to see what the
heck they're talking about, because I scratched my head a
lot of times with protests. And Number one, of course,
I feel obviously people have the right to protest. It's
freedom of speech, to assemble and to gather and to
let their voices be heard. But when you talk to
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people that are protesting, and I saw this all over
the news and ask them why they are protesting, a
lot of them don't know why they're there, and that's
what is so perplexing to me.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I know in the Examiner.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I was looking at that, which is the online newspaper
and comes out of Lincoln, and one seventeen year old
that was there he said, I'm protesting because they don't
want to get drafted. And I was just scratching my head.
The draft went away and way back in nineteen seventy three,
there is no draft. Another woman said in Omaha, she said,
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I'm just mad about everything. Well, what does that mean?
So you're out there protesting against the president? And their
site says, in America, we don't have kings, and we
won't back down against chaos, corruption and cruelty and fight
against dictatorship. No thrones, no crowns, no kings. We don't
have a king in the United States, and everybody knows
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that it are these people saying that President Trump wasn't
fairly elected? Is that what they're saying? When I see
people protesting the America first logo or phrase, I think,
what do they want? Do they want America last? It's
very very perplexing. I know a lot of people will
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say a lot of these people just hate America, and
I hope that is not the case. I hope that
they are saying that there's certain things that they don't
like that the administration are doing. But if you look,
what is their solution and what is their resolution? And
that's the one thing I would like to ask our
listeners about. You know, are their rights being taken away?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You know, what is your solution?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And if you really look at the world and you
look at other countries, the United States is the most
democratic nation on earth. So what is it that you
want to change and what is it that you hope
to achieve by your protests? And I will say, if
you are protesting, and I've been involved in quite a
few protests, especially back in the summer of twenty twenty
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with George Floyd, just know why you're there, and not
just say I'm here because I need a purpose and
I want to be angry, and I want to be
out there with the crowd because there's a crowd assembling here.
I want to be part of it. But know what
you're protesting, know what you're against, and then know what
you're fighting for. And I think that's the important thing.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
A list of donors published by the US House of
Representatives in October. I think that was the first or
the second. No kings listed a sixteen million dollar donation
by Omaha's veri Ow and Warren Buffett to the No Kings.
It's very interesting. Chris Baker in the Afternoon Show yesterday
went through a list of other companies and individuals that
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were donors as well.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
And you know, I said before, I know Warren Buffett.
I like him a lot. He's a brilliant man. But
people have different political views and they base them on
for whatever reason. And I respect Warren Buffett, I respect anybody.
I mean, shoot, look at me. I mean there are
people that liked me as mayor. There are people that
hated me. It's just the way it is when you're
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an elected official. I had somebody tell me one time
they did not like me at all. They hated me
and I and somebody, one of my staff said why,
And they said, because she had a red code on.
I mean, you know, they a lot of times they
pick these reasons they don't like you because you're not
really sure why.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I told you.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
One other person told me I had ugly hands. Okay,
that's a reason to dislike me as mayor. But for
whatever reason, whether it's you know the president now, you
don't like his personality, you don't like the disc agency's making,
you don't like the policies he's making.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
That's fair. That's that's really fair game.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And I think, but just know what you're out there
protesting about, because golly, I wish we would all go
back to being patriots and really saying I love United
States and I'm glad I'm a US citizen.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Steve, thank you for calling eleven to ten kfab you're
on with Jeene stoutht.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Yeah, this is kind of a pet peeve of mine,
and it involves handicapped parking and I have handicapped plates
on my car, so and finding a parking space is
kind of difficult at times. But then you'll have these
guys that are picking up food for door dash and
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they park in there, so you have to keep going
and by the time you get back, someone else's taking
that parking space. So I wish I could go around
handing out tickets, but I'm a little too old for that.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
And I understand what you what you mean by that,
I mean we need to we need to provide parking
and easy access parking and safe parking for those with disabilities.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
You know that the City of Omaha does have a.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Board that the mayor does a point and it is
Citizens with Disability And I appointed that board for twelve years,
and I tried to make sure that there were people
on that board that had all different types of disabilities
from being handicapped, using a wheelchair, from being hard at hearing,
from being you know, challenges with their site or whatever,
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to identify those issues that they see within the City
of Omaha, so that we could take action and do
something about it. But I know, especially with all of
the construction and the road work going on, it could
make it particularly difficult for those citizens with disabilities. And
if there is a you know, we are required by
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law to provide parking and parking for people with disabilities,
so in safe parking. So for those that are listening
and those that are finding it to be an extreme
problem right now, are a problem. Not extreme problem, but
a problem. Mike, right now again I bring this up,
but call the Mayor's hotline. It's four four four five
five five five and report an area that you are
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struggling with or you're finding is very difficult because those
are the things that the city is required by law
to provide.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Very good Steve, thank you for the phone call here, Peyton,
are you awaken? Let's get this situated. We got Mike, Mike,
thanks for listening on the with Jean Stouth.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Hi, Mikello.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I can hear you?
Speaker 9 (28:43):
Well, okay, hey, I just call on. I'm a big
support of yours. Photot for you every time I could,
so thank you for serving our city.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Thanks for saying that, sure, And then.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
In general, I kind of wanted to talk about the
bicycle issue. Kind of know, some engineers in town and
city engineers, traffic folks, and my adult kids are young professionals,
and you're talking about the brain drain, and one of
the things that they always bring up is the city's
lack of progressive bike system, bike trails. All we have
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is north and south on the Papio. I can't even
ride my bike downtown. You know, there's four blocks down
there that are set aside. You know, I just wonder
what the resistance is if you go to other cities
and there's bike lanes everywhere, beautiful, it's fun. You can
ride around Omaha. You can't do that.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And you know that.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I'm glad you called because a caller previous had kind
of a different point of view around it, saying why
are you putting in these bike lanes because I never
see anybody in it. But you know, the City of
Omaha right now, at least you know, under my administration
was really focused on doing a study and seeing and
we already did this study. I'm not you know, people
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hate when you say, look, we're going to do a study.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
They want to act.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
We already did this study on where the best and
most used bike lane should be in Omaha and then
finding a way to do it and fund it. And
I wanted them protected. I just did not want, you know,
paint on the street to say here's your bike lane,
and when you have to look at where people are parking.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
On the street.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
If you're going to reduce the amount of parking, which
is at a premium in the urban core, if you
put bike lanes in, I know the bicyclers, they don't
feel safe unless it's a truly protected bike lane. So
that's what we're looking at, and that's what we are
doing as far as moving forward with that. But we
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do have the Parks Department has a great map that
they put out that you could get from the City
of Omaha Parks Department, and it does have all the
trails that we have in Omaha. We do have a
lot more trails that are being connected that weren't connected before.
And you know, I'm gonna we should talk a little
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bit more about that on a future show or in
the near future about what is being done now as
far as the plan for connecting these bike trails, because
you could literally go from Omaha now down to Bellevue
on a bike and so, and there are a lot
of people that are heavid bicyclers. You know, our US
Senator Pete Ricketts rides a bike a lot and rides
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the distance, rides a bike a lot. So a lot
of people do. And for those who see bike lanes
and say I never see anybody on them, there are
people that depend on that and that's their way of life.
And they want it for exercise, they want it for health,
they want it for convenience. But that's how they choose
to travel. And there are some in Omaha, despite the
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weather and it could be pretty cold and snowy here
that ride their bikes all year round too. And I
think that's really really important that we again look at
al ways that people commute and that we address those.
But number one is always going to be by automobile.
It just is in this climate, in this in this
environment that we have here in Omaha, Nebraska, people are
going to travel by car.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
This is the Kfab comment line, your host of the show,
Jean Stauther. Peter says, I'm against expensive will sorry, I'm
against expensive buildings with dirty windows. So we better have
an action plan for that when we come back from break.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
What about these dirty windows, Hair, Yes, a caller came in.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Peter said, I better see a drone window washer. We
have plenty of thirty thousand dollars tables to build them.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Hmm. That's might not be a bad idea. You know what.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I agree with you, though, I hate dirty windows. And
let me tell you, I'm sitting in the Gary Settlemeyer
studio right now and there's a huge window in here
out to the hallway mm hmm, and I'm looking at
it and it probably hasn't been washed in ten years.
And I might have to bring my windex in one
day because it was one of my pet peeves too.
So but you know what, I will tell you the
Mayor's office, sitting at my desk when I was mayor.
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I looked right out across the street, across Farnham and
I could see the Woodman tower. And when those window
rushers were rushing those windows, Holy cow. I mean I
could hardly stand to look at it. I mean they
are up there, fifty stories rushing windows.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
A drone might be a good idea, Yeah, that might not. Peter,
do you think you can help us align the budget
so we can get these get.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
The drones rush?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well no, the private businesses, see what would pay for that?
So yeah, let's get them.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Maybe we can put it on the taxpayers.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Speaking of taxes, here we go. You're on the KFAB
comment line with your host of the show, Jean Stauth.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Good morning, Hi.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Gene, Hi, hey Jane.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
I would have voted for you, but I'm in.
Speaker 9 (33:38):
Alcorn, so that didn't do any good, did it?
Speaker 8 (33:41):
Well?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Well, part of Elcorn is actually Omaha now, but you're
in that part.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That isn't right right?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Correct?
Speaker 9 (33:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
My comment, Gene is what is Nebraska or pilling which
he promised to do, do anything about property taxes? I mean,
my property taxes are a thousand dollars a month in Elkhorn.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Well, let me let me tell you that what the
governor is working on in the state budget is working
on are are like property tax incentives. They're looking at
property tax reduction by giving tax credits. But what is
really important to remember is property taxes are levied locally,
So it's your local taxing authorities that levy your property taxes.
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The schools, your public school and your area are sixty
two an average is sixty two percent of your total
property tax bill. They set the levee. The City of Omaha,
for example, is twenty two percent for those who live
in Omaha. Douglas County is about twelve and a half percent.
And then there's Metro Transit, there's Metro Community College, there's
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the NRDS. They all levy taxes. So all of that
is done locally. Now, I mean, I've dealt with it lot,
and I know the City of Omaha's levee right now.
It's forty three point nine to nine cents per one
hundred dollars valuation. So I mean that's what the City
of Omaha's is now. I lowered that levee five times
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when I was mayor. Five different times I lowered that levee.
But what I just said is makes the difference. Is
I lowered the levee of twenty two percent of your
total property tax bill. So did you see a big
difference in what you were paying? You didn't, But I
will tell you if I would raise it five times,
I would hear a lot back.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
So we were trying to do.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
What we can do with the City of Omaha is
to manage the budget, which the mayor does the budget.
I did twelve budgets to manage the budget so that
you can deal with inflation, deal with increased cost deal
with increased salaries, which most employees at the City of
Omaha are under contract, so you are obligated to pay
them the increased salary.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Do that and keep your year over year budget.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Is the increase as low as you can so you
can reduce the levee. But with that twenty two percent
of your total property tax bill that goes to the
City of Omaha, you have to stop and think that
funds the fire department, the police department, the libraries, the
community centers, the swimming pools, the public works department, the
Planning department, the legal department, libraries, All of that is
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funded with the amount of money that we get of
the twenty two percent of your total bill. So you know,
I feel like the City of Omaha did what we
can the past twelve years, but what the state of
Nebraska does is more of tax credits and tax incentives,
and that is one of the reasons that the state
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budget was in a deficit too because of those reductions.
So but keep in mind that the levee is not
determined by the state. The levee is determined locally by
your multiple taxing entities.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
All of this information and all of these mornings with
Jean Stuth can be fine can be found on the
iHeartRadio app. We have the KFAB Comment Line with Jean
stauther as a podcast, so all of this you can
always hear back if you have any questions, it might
be good to check there as well as always reaching
out to us. I got another caller for you here.
This is Mitchell. Mitchell. You are on news radio eleven
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ten KFAB with Jean Stouth.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Yeah, I think you were a really good mayor in
the past. That was before I even came to Nebraska.
But I came to Nebraska because I had problems handicapped problems.
And I moved into an apartment complex and they say
they would accommodate me for anything I might need for
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my apartment or whatever. And then they said there'll be
a charge for it.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Hm, and you could you just it?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
You don't have to name the apartment in Omaha, but
just tell what part of town you're in.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Okay, I'm up in uh uh uh uh North Park
or up around the West Mainpot Road.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Okay, so you're kind of in northwest Omaha. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
You know that the apartment owners are required by law
to provide accommodations for those people that live there with disabilities.
So have you have you have you gone to the
manager of the apartment or have you gone to the Well,
it's hard for you probably to go to the owner,
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but have you taken any action at all?
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Well? I went to They told me right up front,
I said, if you need any anything we can, we
can take care of it for you, but we're going
to charge you for whatever it is. You know, like
I asked for a stronger rail up to the top
uh because I have troubled stairs up the top of
stairs too to go up to get my mail. I
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also ask for close parking spot and you charge me
for most of those things that's also free are guaranteed
free by the Act of the government.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
And in as far as I hope I'm saying, what
I'm saying is accurate, but it should be, my recommendation
to you would be, I'm seem like I'm beating this
a lot, but call the Mayor's hotline four four four
five five five five and ask about that because it
could be a code violation. But also ask how you
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can be in contact with the board that is, the
Citizens with Disabilities, because those are the things that they
deal with a lot of issues that are happening in
this community and what they can how they can remedy
the problem, because I do believe that that is something
that should be provided and should be provided without any
extra cost to you. But thank you so much for
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the callppreciate.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
It, you bet, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Very good. See. I like when we get questions like that, Gene,
where we get to we get to to test you
a little bit and see what you're all about. That
was a very good question, Mitchell, and and these type
of things too. Jeane does a very good job. She
does her research. She looks up on it, looks things
up and double checks all of her resources. And we
might have to see about this in the future too.
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You said the mayor hotline was a good choice.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
It is.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I mean, I think that's the one that because it's
a one stop shop and that's how I designed it.
I mean, it's been an effect. It's in the city
Charter for a long time. But I didn't want to
be to have to tell people We'll call the Planning
Department at this number, and call the library at this number,
and call the community. I wanted one stop shop that
you can call and those people that are in that
hotline can guide you to the to the direct person.
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So I hope it's still running the way I set
it up, but it's it's sure worth a try.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
This is the Kfabe comment Line with your host of
the show, Jeane Stop Jan Would you like to announce
who we have coming on the show tomorrow morning at
ten oh five.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yes, I'm really excited we have US Senator Pete Ricketts
is going to join us tomorrow. There's so many questions
I want to ask him about what is going on
in Washington, d C. With the budget, with a ran,
get his opinion on a lot of different things.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
So he is going to be with us.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
And as everybody knows, he previous was the fortieth governor
of the state of Nebraska. But he is us senator
now and he will be on with us tomorrow morning.
So join in and listen to what Senator Pete Ricketts
has to say. And thank you all for listening today,
Thanks for being with us.
We're going to have a great guest tomorrow, and Peyton's
with me. I should say hi to you. I didn't
even say hello, Hi, Peyton.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
How are you today.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm doing pretty good. There there's a road closed out
front of our building here, yes, there is, said a
little interesting getting in and out.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But I was able to creep around it. I said,
I'm getting you sell this road construction.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, yeah, City. You got out and moved the sign
and said I'm gonna drive on the here anyway.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
No, I obey.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
But when I was coming, I come up six point
eighty and boy, there was something going on on the
Dodge Expressway this morning, and I'm glad I took a
turn and went down Dodge Street. Because the traffic is bad,
and the traffic is bad downtown. We could talk about
that too, But for our listeners, this is your chance
to speak up and sound off. So if you want
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to send us an email today, send it to comment
at kfab dot com, or you can call us at
four O two five five eight eleven ten and we'll
take your call. But I did tell you about downtown too,
you know. I was downtown every day for twelve years
and then a lot before that. For four years on
the city council, so sixteen years, I spent a lot
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of time downtown. And I'll admit, just like everybody else,
it's pretty darn confusing down there. There's so much construction,
and as we said yesterday, replacing these gas and waterlines,
you literally have to tear up the streets. So there's
big holes, and there's barriers, and there's cones, and there's signs,
and it is very confusing. And even Jeene stothert that
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went downtown every day for twelve years. I said this before,
but I was meeting a friend downtown a couple of
weeks ago and I ended up in Iowa just because
I was turning here and turning here and turning here,
and all of a sudden, I'm thinking, holy cow, I'm
not in Omaha anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So I understand what people are saying.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
There's nothing more frustrating than when you are trying to
get someplace and get someplace place quickly and there's problems parking.
And I do understand what's going on with the businesses
down there, And if any of the business owners are listening,
you know, I welcome them to call in let us
know what it's like, how they're feeling.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean when you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Think that there's for instance, you know barbershops are beauty
salons along the way and they're shutting their water off,
I mean, what can they do? And so hopefully we'll
get a lot more information that we could share with
people to to let them know what the city is
doing and what is being done to move this project
on as quickly as we possibly can. I know it
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is soon that the tracks are going to start being
laid and the rails. You could see them on Farnham
Street just west of Eleventh Street now and they have
been working on welding those big sections together. Those rails
were actually purchased quite a while ago when I was mayor,
because we got a good price on them to purchase
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them at that time because as we know the price
of steel is going up and so those were bought
quite a while ago. But those are going to start
going in sometime soon to start with a capital loop
and that's not going to take as long as all
this infrastructure work. So I know it's a lot going
on downtown, but it's and it's a lot to deal with,
and so anybody listening as far as living down there,
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businesses down there. We sure welcome your calls and your
comments about downtown Omaha, because it is it's it's construction,
it's very very inconvenient for people. It will get better
and I and I guarantee you it'll be worth it
what everything is done. But the last thing I want
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is the businesses to have hardships and for businesses not
to remain open. And that's a big concern of everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
We have a lot to get into. We have some
really good guests coming this week, like you mentioned already, dude,
So today is a really good opportunity for anyone listening
to ask a question that you have. Let's hear it today.
The first one I got is from Jeff. Jeff, You're
on news radio eleven ten KFAB with Gene Stouter.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Hey, Hey, I called in. I'm not I won't get
in the streetcar stuff, but on the bike lane stuff.
Nothing would make me happier than to drive down one
hundred and eighth Street or go downtown and seeing see
like the bike lanes full of bicyclists, you know, commuting
back and forth for work or recreation or anything like that.
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But it's such a pain point for me, and I
think anybody that I've ever talked to that when I
drive by any of these bike lanes, they're always empty
and they choke off the street. So what would have
to happen to undo this bike lane initiative that has
to me just been an epic failure.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You know, it's a really good question, and I will
tell you this, and I understand what you're saying, and
I agree. If you recall when we did that pilot
down Harney Street, and it was about an eighteen month
pilot pilot for a protected bike lane down Harney Street,
and remember we put cones up because we weren't going
to put it anything in the road to really protect it.
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I drive down Harney or I drove down Harney every
single day because that's where the parking garage was under
City Hall, and I felt the same thing, But it
depended on the time of day that I was driving
down Harney, because there are bikers that drive or ride
their bikes on it in early in the morning when
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it's time to go to work, and there's bikers on it,
in the afternoon when it's time to go home, and
there's bicyclers on it on the weekends and when there's
good weather. Now Omaha in particular, we have bad weather
in the winter, and you don't see a lot of
people riding their bikes on those bike lanes in the
winter time. And I thought, after that pilot was done,
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we had enough information that we needed on what we
needed to do as far as putting protected bike lanes,
and that I wanted to take the cones up and
stop that pilot right then.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And I got a lot of pushback from.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
The bicycle community because they were saying, this is something
that is needed. So as mayor, what I wanted to
do is study where the best bike lanes would be
to be put in, especially to get in and around
and out of midtown and downtown, how we would pay for.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It, what they would look like.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But you always have to look at every way that
people commute, and that's just it. And you know right
now in Omaha at least eighty percent of the people
commute by car. So my first priority was to take
care of the roads. And we did, you know, had
a two hundred million dollar bond issue passed in May
of twenty twenty. It was reauthorized by a vote of
the people in twenty twenty four that was number one.
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But we also have to look at pedestrian traffic, We
have to look at bicycle traffic, We have to look
at all the ways people want to commute, and that's
just what a big and growing city does. The bike
lane that we are going to put in, a permanent
protected bike lane on Harney Street, the majority of it
is paid for by philanthropy, by private money, and so
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that was all always something that was on my mind
how it would be paid for. But if you look
at other cities that actually have protected bike lanes, and
that means it's a permanent protection. Whether it's something concrete
or I don't know, flower pods or something around there
that will protect the bicyclers. That's important too. One of
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the things I will tell you that we learned on
the pilot on Harney Street is which side of the
street to put that bike lane on. Because the side
of the street that we had it on, which was
the south side, stayed shaded most of the day, and
so in the winter it was icy and the snow
didn't melt, and we had a heck of a time
plowing that to keep it clear for those who wanted
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to ride their bikes, So it's going to be moved
to the north side because there was more sun on
the north side.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
So I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
A lot of times when I look at those bike lanes,
I don't see a lot of people and a lot
of bicyclers on it.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
But it's just like the bus system.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I hear that too, that I look at the buses
and I don't see a lot of people on it.
But indeed, there are millions of people that ride our
buses in Omaha every year.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I mean, we get those.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Numbers from Metro Transit so frustrating, but there are people
that use them.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
What I was thinking about, too, is there's a lot
of increased scooter usage downtown as well. Limescooters. Yes, and
everyone has seen a video or seen something go wrong
where someone is riding one of those pretty fast scooters
on a sidewalk and that's a collision waiting to happen,
because the sidewalks aren't designed for you to be ripping
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it that fast.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Those scooters are not supposed to be on the sidewalks.
Those scooters are supposed to move with the traffic in
the street exactly. And I will tell you when we
first started piloting the scooters, it was a nightmare to me.
I did not like those scooters at all. And the
very first day, one of our police officers sent me
a picture of a woman it was right up at
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Midtown who had fallen and she had a compound fracture
of her tibia and he took a picture of her
bone stick it out or shin and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
No, this is what we're gonna be dealing with.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And at first it was so difficult. I saw women
on it with high heels.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I saw divas right there.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Two people at a time on these scooters.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I remember going out and talking to the mayor of
San Diego.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I was out there. It was for the christening of the.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Uss Omaha, but I talked to the mayor in San
Diego and he goes, I hate these scooters because he
said people leave them in the parks, and they throw
them in the water, and they throw them in the lakes,
and they throw them all over the place. So we
had a lot that we had to learn about using
these scooters. That we could get a company that would
clean them up and make sure that they were put
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back where they should be put back. And of course,
you know, we don't keep them in Omaha all winter
because nobody's going to be really riding those all winter,
So there's a time that they take them out, in
the time that they bring them back.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But again, people love him.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Have you ever taken one of them out for a
joy ride?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Never? No, nor well.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I you're telling me you've never hopped on one of
those things.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I stood on one for a picture one time. I
will never. No, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I thought, you know, it was pushing it for me
to do the Mayor's Bike Ride with a mayor of
Council Bluff and we did a bike ride around downtown
and I thought, okay, you're pushing me with that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'm not going to get on a scooter.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
But you know, people, the people that like them, love them,
and they're really useful with things like the College World
series going on. I mean, people love them. There's a
lot of young people that come. They like scooting around
town on those scooters. And right now we really haven't
had with the company we have and the rules and
the process we have in place, who could get on
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that scooter. You got to show your driver's license, et cetera.
Things have really calmed down quite a bit. But at
first I thought it was a nightmare of what was
going to happen with those scooters.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Well, I'm telling you, have you and your husband on
a weekend night, you go downtown, you ride the ride
the scooter, and you hit up a Coldstone ice cream.
That's a great date.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, that's gonna happen. No, my husband rides his bike
all the time. Kevin Ken's Kevin's out there riding his bike.
I don't even do that.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I exercise a lot and I work out twice a week.
But you're not going to catch me on that scooter,
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
We're gonna shift to the talkback Mike. Here. This is
talkback Mike. You can find this on the iHeartRadio app.
Tho's a little microphone. You can go ahead and send
us a message.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
And I got an idea for all the unlicensed cars
you see around town, Why don't we have a bounty.
So if a citizen sees somebody who's car's on license,
he gets like ten bucks for turning them in. That way,
there's motivation to report these people that aren't paying their
road taxes and they could just add ten bucks to
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the fee that the guy has to pay her registers
car and we can you handle it?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Well, you know you thanks for the call. I appreciate it,
and you know, I mean you certainly can still do that.
I mean you could call in the Mayor's hotline and
you could say, I saw here's a license plate that
I saw that was unlicensed. But you know, we used
to even have police officers that would patrol, say apartment
building parking lots looking for unlicensed or expired licenses on cars.
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They used to do that.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
It came to, you know, when we had this the
issue of the low number of people applying for police
officers and having you know a real challenge with getting
people to apply and getting our numbers back up to
our authorized strength.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
The last thing that we wanted to.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Really do is take a large group of police officers
and having patrol parking lots looking for expired our cars
that were unlicensed. So you know, there is a late
fee that we started charging. Golly, I can't even remember
when that was. I believe it was when I was
on city council, so it was quite a while ago
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that if somebody applies for their license plate late, they
get charged for it. There's a fine, and we thought
that once we had a fine, that it would motivate
people to get their cars every year relicnsed on time.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
And you know, it didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I mean, we still have the same amount of fines
that we collect every year for late fee for expired licenses, so,
you know, and then then we see people that live
here from others that actually live in other states.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Too, So that is an issue.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You know, you can certainly call the hotline and say,
you know, here's a license plate number that's expired.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
But at the same time, it to me it was.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Not a useful use of our police officers to patrol
as far as that goes, so anyway, but it is
an issue. And I know what you're saying, that would
be pretty fun though, A bounty bounty hunters.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
A little bounty hunter. I'm telling you, if if you
put a few people out, a few a little bit
of a word out, there'd be people out there that
would cut down those numbers of unregistered cars.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
But do they.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I mean, you always stop and have to think. You know,
we have traffic signals all over Omaha, do people always
abide by them?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It's I always do every single time, do.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know I Well, I'm not even going to say
how old I am, but everybody knows how old I am.
I've been around a while, Peyton, I could be your grandma.
But I don't want to say that ever again. But
you know, I have never a knock on wood. Now
that cops are going to be looking for me because
they'd knock on wood. I have never had a speeding
ticket in my life. Really, I've never had a speeding ticket.
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I've never been in an accident in my entire life.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That's impressive.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well, I'm telling you I follow those rules of the road.
But what my point was, we have speed limits, we
have traffic signals. People just I mean, and they're going
to get fined if they don't abide by them.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And people don't do it. I mean, people take a chance.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So I think a lot of times I'll take a
chance with not getting their cars licensed on time or
having an expired license.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But you know, sometimes you forget.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I mean a Douglas County treasure who used to be
John Ewing. They used to send out they would send
notices and people a lot of times people would say
I didn't get a notice or something, so somebody always
had an excuse. Yeah, you know, but you know, I know,
my husband just just recently said, oops, I got to
get my car done.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I got to get my license done. Almost forgot.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So people do forget, but it's something that you just
need to you need to get done.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
People are sending me all their horror stories on scooters,
but we're not going to talk about that anymore. Let's
go to Chuck here on the phone lines. So who
has a little bit about transportation? Chuck, You're on news
radio eleven ten KFAB with Jean Stouthart.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Hello, good morning.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Yeah, hey, I hear about people, you know, kind of
criticizing bicycles and mass trans and I think, you know
what a wonderful city we could have. If you live
downtown and you don't need a car. Cars you're a
pain in the neck. They're really expensive if you get
in car accidents. And people that ride bikes and people
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that ride mass transit, you know, they pay taxes and
that money goes to roads. I mean, we paid one
hundred and seventeen million dollars for that overpass on god
Street Overpass one hundred and seventeenth Street or whatever, because
that thing is backed up every morning. When you see
people riding bikes, they are taking cars off the road.
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I love people that ride their cars to go to
their health spot so they can exercise. Well, if you
ride a bike or you walk on mass transit, you
get your exercise automatically. Look at the obesity rates in
this town. To go to a pancake house out in Millard,
look at the people. They're riding their cars everywhere they go.
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They're getting no exercise. If we live in a city
that wants to have no brain drain, you have to
have young people that can live without a car. And
you know you're not a novel idea. Go to New York,
go to Washington, d C. Go to Paris. They close
down a main street in Paris. It was five lanes
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through Ribley. Now it's one lane for cars and buses,
four lanes for bikes. People love it. The bikes pass
up the buses, they pass up the taxicabs, and their
bicyclists are everywhere you build a road, they will come.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I agree with you, and you know that's one of
the reasons that the street car is going in. When
I keep on seeing public pulse letters and emails of
people say it, it makes no sense. That is one
of the main reasons we're putting a street car in
downtown in midtown. And I've said this so many times before,
but right now down town half is dedicated to parking.
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I mean, that is not a good use of space
in an urban core. And if we want to attract
the young talent, and if we want to prevent brain drain,
and if we want to get new businesses into our downtown,
we have to take care of the parking problem, and
we have to provide transportation. And you know, when you say, well,
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how can you get young professionals to stay here after
they graduate from college or come here and want to
live in Omaha, you give them what they're looking for.
And what are young professionals looking for. They're looking for
affordable housing, they are they're looking for urban living. They're
looking for entertainment, They're were looking for walkability, they're looking
for public transportation. They're looking for all of those things
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in an urban core, in an urban setting. That's what
we're doing. We're trying to address the problem with the
You don't always need a car, because if you are
going to live downtown. Some of these great apartments are
these great places that are being rehab downtown, some beautiful places.
The big challenge is where am I going to park?
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And let me tell you, if you are in one
of the condominiums and you are paying for parking, the
parking like underneath your building, for example, it's outrageous the
cost for parking in an urban core. And so you
are so right though. You know when we built opened
up the oh my goodness, I'm blanking out. But the
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new big apartment complex down on tenth Street where Memoir
is at the base of it. A lot of those
folks that we're moving into those apartments down on tenth
Street worked at the Med Center and the Brookline, and
they said, we're moving here because we know that that
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street car is going to be here and it'll eventually
go up to the Med Center and we won't have
to have a car or we won't have to get
our cars out. And so that's one of the main
reasons that you do look at all the ways that
people want to commute. If you live downtown and you
wanted to go out to lunch or you wanted to
go to a show or something, and you don't want
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to get your car out and move it around. Then
you could either ride your bike, or you could walk,
or you could you know, ride the street car. You
need to make options available and that's what that's what
people really love about urban core living, and that's what
young professionals love that. We want to prevent the brain
drain and people from leaving our community. So there are
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a lot of advantages to public transportation.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Geene, this is a fun question for you. Okay, Oh boy,
My eight year old son has followed your career since
he was born. He's a big fan. One thing he
would like to know, what is your favorite dinosaur?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Oh? What a great question.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Well, I wish I knew his grandson's name, but I
would have to say a pterodactyl because they fly and
I like that.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I like to see them. And when you look.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
At the birds that are in the air, now you
know they are just scendence of the dinosaur. So there
you are, right there, So it's a pterodactyl. The thing
I didn't say one of those dinosaurs on the flintstones
or something.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Thank you courch again.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yes, okay, you know what before we take the rest
of the calls here, and I know we have plenty.
One of the things I just wanted to bring up,
and it's been talked about a lot lately, but is
the No King's Rally protests that went across our country
this weekend. It was on March twenty eighth, on Saturday,
the first one, I believe within October of I think
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it was in October of twenty five that we had,
but all fifty states took part in this this weekend.
It is estimated that eight to nine million protesters were
out on Saturday in record numbers, protesting against Donald Trump
and his administration. And you know, I had to look
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at the No King's site just to see what the
heck they're talking about, because I scratched my head a
lot of times with protests. And Number one, of course,
I feel obviously people have the right to protest. It's
freedom of speech, to assemble and to gather and to
let their voices be heard. But when you talk to
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people that are protesting, and I saw this all over
the news and ask them why they are protesting, a
lot of them don't know why they're there, and that's
what is so perplexing to me.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I know in the Examiner.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I was looking at that, which is the online newspaper
and comes out of Lincoln, and one seventeen year old
that was there he said, I'm protesting because they don't
want to get drafted. And I was just scratching my head.
The draft went away and way back in nineteen seventy three,
there is no draft. Another woman said in Omaha, she said,
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I'm just mad about everything. Well, what does that mean?
So you're out there protesting against the president? And their
site says, in America, we don't have kings, and we
won't back down against chaos, corruption and cruelty and fight
against dictatorship. No thrones, no crowns, no kings. We don't
have a king in the United States, and everybody knows
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that it are these people saying that President Trump wasn't
fairly elected? Is that what they're saying? When I see
people protesting the America first logo or phrase, I think,
what do they want? Do they want America last? It's
very very perplexing. I know a lot of people will
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say a lot of these people just hate America, and
I hope that is not the case. I hope that
they are saying that there's certain things that they don't
like that the administration are doing. But if you look,
what is their solution and what is their resolution? And
that's the one thing I would like to ask our
listeners about. You know, are their rights being taken away?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You know, what is your solution?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And if you really look at the world and you
look at other countries, the United States is the most
democratic nation on earth. So what is it that you
want to change and what is it that you hope
to achieve by your protests? And I will say, if
you are protesting, and I've been involved in quite a
few protests, especially back in the summer of twenty twenty
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with George Floyd, just know why you're there, and not
just say I'm here because I need a purpose and
I want to be angry, and I want to be
out there with the crowd because there's a crowd assembling here.
I want to be part of it. But know what
you're protesting, know what you're against, and then know what
you're fighting for. And I think that's the important thing.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
A list of donors published by the US House of
Representatives in October. I think that was the first or
the second. No kings listed a sixteen million dollar donation
by Omaha's veri Ow and Warren Buffett to the No Kings.
It's very interesting. Chris Baker in the Afternoon Show yesterday
went through a list of other companies and individuals that
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were donors as well.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
And you know, I said before, I know Warren Buffett.
I like him a lot. He's a brilliant man. But
people have different political views and they base them on
for whatever reason. And I respect Warren Buffett, I respect anybody.
I mean, shoot, look at me. I mean there are
people that liked me as mayor. There are people that
hated me. It's just the way it is when you're
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an elected official. I had somebody tell me one time
they did not like me at all. They hated me
and I and somebody, one of my staff said why,
And they said, because she had a red code on.
I mean, you know, they a lot of times they
pick these reasons they don't like you because you're not
really sure why.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I told you.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
One other person told me I had ugly hands. Okay,
that's a reason to dislike me as mayor. But for
whatever reason, whether it's you know the president now, you
don't like his personality, you don't like the disc agency's making,
you don't like the policies he's making.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
That's fair. That's that's really fair game.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
And I think, but just know what you're out there
protesting about, because golly, I wish we would all go
back to being patriots and really saying I love United
States and I'm glad I'm a US citizen.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Steve, thank you for calling eleven to ten kfab you're
on with Jeene stoutht.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Yeah, this is kind of a pet peeve of mine,
and it involves handicapped parking and I have handicapped plates
on my car, so and finding a parking space is
kind of difficult at times. But then you'll have these
guys that are picking up food for door dash and
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they park in there, so you have to keep going
and by the time you get back, someone else's taking
that parking space. So I wish I could go around
handing out tickets, but I'm a little too old for that.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
And I understand what you what you mean by that,
I mean we need to we need to provide parking
and easy access parking and safe parking for those with disabilities.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
You know that the City of Omaha does have a.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Board that the mayor does a point and it is
Citizens with Disability And I appointed that board for twelve years,
and I tried to make sure that there were people
on that board that had all different types of disabilities
from being handicapped, using a wheelchair, from being hard at hearing,
from being you know, challenges with their site or whatever,
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to identify those issues that they see within the City
of Omaha, so that we could take action and do
something about it. But I know, especially with all of
the construction and the road work going on, it could
make it particularly difficult for those citizens with disabilities. And
if there is a you know, we are required by
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law to provide parking and parking for people with disabilities,
so in safe parking. So for those that are listening
and those that are finding it to be an extreme
problem right now, are a problem. Not extreme problem, but
a problem. Mike, right now again I bring this up,
but call the Mayor's hotline. It's four four four five
five five five and report an area that you are
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struggling with or you're finding is very difficult because those
are the things that the city is required by law
to provide.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Very good Steve, thank you for the phone call here, Peyton,
are you awaken? Let's get this situated. We got Mike, Mike,
thanks for listening on the with Jean Stouth.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Hi, Mikello.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I can hear you?
Speaker 9 (28:43):
Well, okay, hey, I just call on. I'm a big
support of yours. Photot for you every time I could,
so thank you for serving our city.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Thanks for saying that, sure, And then.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
In general, I kind of wanted to talk about the
bicycle issue. Kind of know, some engineers in town and
city engineers, traffic folks, and my adult kids are young professionals,
and you're talking about the brain drain, and one of
the things that they always bring up is the city's
lack of progressive bike system, bike trails. All we have
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is north and south on the Papio. I can't even
ride my bike downtown. You know, there's four blocks down
there that are set aside. You know, I just wonder
what the resistance is if you go to other cities
and there's bike lanes everywhere, beautiful, it's fun. You can
ride around Omaha. You can't do that.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
And you know that.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I'm glad you called because a caller previous had kind
of a different point of view around it, saying why
are you putting in these bike lanes because I never
see anybody in it. But you know, the City of
Omaha right now, at least you know, under my administration
was really focused on doing a study and seeing and
we already did this study. I'm not you know, people
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hate when you say, look, we're going to do a study.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
They want to act.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
We already did this study on where the best and
most used bike lane should be in Omaha and then
finding a way to do it and fund it. And
I wanted them protected. I just did not want, you know,
paint on the street to say here's your bike lane,
and when you have to look at where people are parking.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
On the street.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
If you're going to reduce the amount of parking, which
is at a premium in the urban core, if you
put bike lanes in, I know the bicyclers, they don't
feel safe unless it's a truly protected bike lane. So
that's what we're looking at, and that's what we are
doing as far as moving forward with that. But we
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do have the Parks Department has a great map that
they put out that you could get from the City
of Omaha Parks Department, and it does have all the
trails that we have in Omaha. We do have a
lot more trails that are being connected that weren't connected before.
And you know, I'm gonna we should talk a little
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bit more about that on a future show or in
the near future about what is being done now as
far as the plan for connecting these bike trails, because
you could literally go from Omaha now down to Bellevue
on a bike and so, and there are a lot
of people that are heavid bicyclers. You know, our US
Senator Pete Ricketts rides a bike a lot and rides
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the distance, rides a bike a lot. So a lot
of people do. And for those who see bike lanes
and say I never see anybody on them, there are
people that depend on that and that's their way of life.
And they want it for exercise, they want it for health,
they want it for convenience. But that's how they choose
to travel. And there are some in Omaha, despite the
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weather and it could be pretty cold and snowy here
that ride their bikes all year round too. And I
think that's really really important that we again look at
al ways that people commute and that we address those.
But number one is always going to be by automobile.
It just is in this climate, in this in this
environment that we have here in Omaha, Nebraska, people are
going to travel by car.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
This is the Kfab comment line, your host of the show,
Jean Stauther. Peter says, I'm against expensive will sorry, I'm
against expensive buildings with dirty windows. So we better have
an action plan for that when we come back from break.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
What about these dirty windows, Hair, Yes, a caller came in.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Peter said, I better see a drone window washer. We
have plenty of thirty thousand dollars tables to build them.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Hmm. That's might not be a bad idea. You know what.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I agree with you, though, I hate dirty windows. And
let me tell you, I'm sitting in the Gary Settlemeyer
studio right now and there's a huge window in here
out to the hallway mm hmm, and I'm looking at
it and it probably hasn't been washed in ten years.
And I might have to bring my windex in one
day because it was one of my pet peeves too.
So but you know what, I will tell you the
Mayor's office, sitting at my desk when I was mayor.
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I looked right out across the street, across Farnham and
I could see the Woodman tower. And when those window
rushers were rushing those windows, Holy cow. I mean I
could hardly stand to look at it. I mean they
are up there, fifty stories rushing windows.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
A drone might be a good idea, Yeah, that might not. Peter,
do you think you can help us align the budget
so we can get these get.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
The drones rush?
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Well no, the private businesses, see what would pay for that?
So yeah, let's get them.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Maybe we can put it on the taxpayers.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Speaking of taxes, here we go. You're on the KFAB
comment line with your host of the show, Jean Stauth.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Good morning, Hi.
Speaker 9 (33:33):
Gene, Hi, hey Jane.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
I would have voted for you, but I'm in.
Speaker 9 (33:38):
Alcorn, so that didn't do any good, did it?
Speaker 8 (33:41):
Well?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Well, part of Elcorn is actually Omaha now, but you're
in that part.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That isn't right right?
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Correct?
Speaker 9 (33:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
My comment, Gene is what is Nebraska or pilling which
he promised to do, do anything about property taxes? I mean,
my property taxes are a thousand dollars a month in Elkhorn.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Well, let me let me tell you that what the
governor is working on in the state budget is working
on are are like property tax incentives. They're looking at
property tax reduction by giving tax credits. But what is
really important to remember is property taxes are levied locally,
So it's your local taxing authorities that levy your property taxes.
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The schools, your public school and your area are sixty
two an average is sixty two percent of your total
property tax bill. They set the levee. The City of Omaha,
for example, is twenty two percent for those who live
in Omaha. Douglas County is about twelve and a half percent.
And then there's Metro Transit, there's Metro Community College, there's
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the NRDS. They all levy taxes. So all of that
is done locally. Now, I mean, I've dealt with it lot,
and I know the City of Omaha's levee right now.
It's forty three point nine to nine cents per one
hundred dollars valuation. So I mean that's what the City
of Omaha's is now. I lowered that levee five times
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when I was mayor. Five different times I lowered that levee.
But what I just said is makes the difference. Is
I lowered the levee of twenty two percent of your
total property tax bill. So did you see a big
difference in what you were paying? You didn't, But I
will tell you if I would raise it five times,
I would hear a lot back.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
So we were trying to do.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
What we can do with the City of Omaha is
to manage the budget, which the mayor does the budget.
I did twelve budgets to manage the budget so that
you can deal with inflation, deal with increased cost deal
with increased salaries, which most employees at the City of
Omaha are under contract, so you are obligated to pay
them the increased salary.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Do that and keep your year over year budget.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Is the increase as low as you can so you
can reduce the levee. But with that twenty two percent
of your total property tax bill that goes to the
City of Omaha, you have to stop and think that
funds the fire department, the police department, the libraries, the
community centers, the swimming pools, the public works department, the
Planning department, the legal department, libraries, All of that is
(36:25):
funded with the amount of money that we get of
the twenty two percent of your total bill. So you know,
I feel like the City of Omaha did what we
can the past twelve years, but what the state of
Nebraska does is more of tax credits and tax incentives,
and that is one of the reasons that the state
(36:47):
budget was in a deficit too because of those reductions.
So but keep in mind that the levee is not
determined by the state. The levee is determined locally by
your multiple taxing entities.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
All of this information and all of these mornings with
Jean Stuth can be fine can be found on the
iHeartRadio app. We have the KFAB Comment Line with Jean
stauther as a podcast, so all of this you can
always hear back if you have any questions, it might
be good to check there as well as always reaching
out to us. I got another caller for you here.
This is Mitchell. Mitchell. You are on news radio eleven
(37:22):
ten KFAB with Jean Stouth.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Yeah, I think you were a really good mayor in
the past. That was before I even came to Nebraska.
But I came to Nebraska because I had problems handicapped problems.
And I moved into an apartment complex and they say
they would accommodate me for anything I might need for
(37:46):
my apartment or whatever. And then they said there'll be
a charge for it.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Hm, and you could you just it?
Speaker 1 (37:58):
You don't have to name the apartment in Omaha, but
just tell what part of town you're in.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Okay, I'm up in uh uh uh uh North Park
or up around the West Mainpot Road.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Okay, so you're kind of in northwest Omaha. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
You know that the apartment owners are required by law
to provide accommodations for those people that live there with disabilities.
So have you have you have you gone to the
manager of the apartment or have you gone to the Well,
it's hard for you probably to go to the owner,
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but have you taken any action at all?
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Well? I went to They told me right up front,
I said, if you need any anything we can, we
can take care of it for you, but we're going
to charge you for whatever it is. You know, like
I asked for a stronger rail up to the top
uh because I have troubled stairs up the top of
stairs too to go up to get my mail. I
(39:02):
also ask for close parking spot and you charge me
for most of those things that's also free are guaranteed
free by the Act of the government.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
And in as far as I hope I'm saying, what
I'm saying is accurate, but it should be, my recommendation
to you would be, I'm seem like I'm beating this
a lot, but call the Mayor's hotline four four four
five five five five and ask about that because it
could be a code violation. But also ask how you
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can be in contact with the board that is, the
Citizens with Disabilities, because those are the things that they
deal with a lot of issues that are happening in
this community and what they can how they can remedy
the problem, because I do believe that that is something
that should be provided and should be provided without any
extra cost to you. But thank you so much for
(39:59):
the callppreciate.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
It, you bet, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Very good. See. I like when we get questions like that, Gene,
where we get to we get to to test you
a little bit and see what you're all about. That
was a very good question, Mitchell, and and these type
of things too. Jeane does a very good job. She
does her research. She looks up on it, looks things
up and double checks all of her resources. And we
might have to see about this in the future too.
(40:25):
You said the mayor hotline was a good choice.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
It is.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I mean, I think that's the one that because it's
a one stop shop and that's how I designed it.
I mean, it's been an effect. It's in the city
Charter for a long time. But I didn't want to
be to have to tell people We'll call the Planning
Department at this number, and call the library at this number,
and call the community. I wanted one stop shop that
you can call and those people that are in that
hotline can guide you to the to the direct person.
(40:51):
So I hope it's still running the way I set
it up, but it's it's sure worth a try.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
This is the Kfabe comment Line with your host of
the show, Jeane Stop Jan Would you like to announce
who we have coming on the show tomorrow morning at
ten oh five.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yes, I'm really excited we have US Senator Pete Ricketts
is going to join us tomorrow. There's so many questions
I want to ask him about what is going on
in Washington, d C. With the budget, with a ran,
get his opinion on a lot of different things.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
So he is going to be with us.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
And as everybody knows, he previous was the fortieth governor
of the state of Nebraska. But he is us senator
now and he will be on with us tomorrow morning.
So join in and listen to what Senator Pete Ricketts
has to say. And thank you all for listening today,
Thanks for being with us.
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