February 10, 2026 • 51 mins
Not for good anyway; not to stay for several weeks. Let it be declared! Also today, we talk about paying good money to bad teachers, another property tax proposal in the legislature (with State Sen. Bob Andersen of Omaha), Olympic controversies, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't feel like I can jinx things when I
say this, Lucy, but I really don't. I mean, you
look at the long term forecast and you look at
the calendar, and when I'm here's what I'm not saying.
I'm not saying that it's not going to get cold.
I'm not saying that we're not going to get a
blast of snow. We might get a huge blast of snow.
(00:21):
It happens all the time here in Omaha, where March, April,
even early May suddenly you get like eight inches of snow.
But here's what I am saying, it's not going to
set back in and stick around for weeks on end.
I think winter, And let me know if I'm jinxing things.
(00:44):
I think winter is done.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Stop stop.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What do you think is going to happen? You think
marks all the time?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Usually we get this in January.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You think, yeah, but you know it certainly does you
get some nice days December January, but usually February you
got to wait till the end of the month. But
when you look at the long term forecast, I'm looking
week and a half, two weeks out, there's no winter there,
and two weeks out that puts us to the last
(01:17):
week of February, the final days of February.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, the government just wants us to get settled into
a nice pattern before they hit us again with some
fake weather.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That's fine. The nice thing about a big March snowstorm
is like it snows like crazy. Maybe the kids get
a snow day and it's a and it's not a
like thirty below zero kind of a snow. It's like,
you know, mid twenties. The kids are out playing in
the sun and the snow, and the snow starts melting
within a couple of days and by the weekend we're
(01:47):
all out going for walks. Again. That's the that's your
March snowstorm. It's not going to be like, well, we've
got forty below zero settling in here, and it looks
like it's going to be like that for the next
two weeks. I don't see that happening in March. Now.
I'm here's what I and here's another thing I'm not saying.
(02:10):
I'm not saying. And so it's going to be beautiful
and warm, and you know, we're probably gonna get it
some really rainy, windy weather that might be colder than
normal and creates a phenomenon around here known as mud season.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We hate that.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You would probably get a little mud season here into March,
but I think the days of the really bad sub
zero temperatures and all that. Now again, someone's gonna be
like the guy and the radio said, I can start planning, faulbs.
I'm not saying that. I just no, but it will
be your fault, you know. And see I'm trying to
(02:51):
ward against that. I don't need someone coming here in
three weeks going. You said it wasn't gonna get colder, snowy. Oh,
I'm saying it's not gonna be hold her snowy for
two weeks straight, maybe a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It is so hard not to get out in the
yard when you've got weather like that. It's it's everything
I could take from yesterday going out and doing some
clean up and doing some stuff. I know I didn't
do it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I got home with about an hour a daylight left
yesterday and I extracted my wife from the house. I said,
I don't care what you're doing. We're going for a walk.
She's like, okay, let me, uh me, let me put
some shoes on. No, yeah, like it's that nice on
my wife's home barefoot and pregnant. She's neither barefoot nor pregnant,
(03:43):
but yeah, wouldn't that be something, honey, So did.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You pick up the trash?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I extracted her. Did I? Yeah, She's like, I'll go
for a walk with you if you take the trash out.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
No, what with all the wind we have had this year,
this wind, sure there is trash in the backyard. I
picked up a few pieces.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm always picking up trash or telling my kid go
out there and pick that up. But we went. We
went for a good walk. We walked all the way
up to the park and then lamented that our kids
are old and not cute anymore. And it reminded me
of the first really nice day after my daughter was
born in February. This is almost nineteen years ago. She's
(04:28):
gonna be nineteen in a couple of weeks. After like
a couple of weeks, it was this really nice, warm
day like yesterday, and I went out and bought one
of those strollers we can take the car seat and
put it in the stroller, like a big SUV stroller,
not crazy big, and just went walking around the neighborhood
how's it going good to see my new baby? This
(04:49):
is this is my daughter, you know, and like taking
her out to the park even though she was like
three weeks old. Someday you're gonna play on these swings
and I didn't have the foresight to say. And then
shortly thereafter, within the blink of an eye, you'll be
away at college and you won't be young and cute anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You know what that means.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
He's an old hag.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now, yeah, it's time to get a dog.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And my wife's talking about cats. Now she's talking about cats.
She's a cat lady.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well she'll be a dog lady then, no.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We, you know, exactly have the lifestyle for dogs. I'm
gone a lot throughout the day. She's gone a lot
throughout the day. Our kids are almost out, you know,
So that dog's just going to be in a pan
or a cage. You're wandering around the house by itself
all day.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Get yourself a purse dog and take them with you.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Cats want to be left home alone all day. Now
someone's going to be emailing going. Cats don't want You
don't know what cats want.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Nobody does.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That lady with the ninety some cats from the other day.
I'll tell you what cats want. They want to cuddle
with a several dozen other cats.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No, they want to move out those Lucy.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know, it would be really funny if we just
ignore Jim Rose the rest of the morning. By the way,
we get emails from listeners going every time you and
Lucy talk. I like it, But I feel like Jim
is just sitting there patiently waiting for his chance to speak.
It was a long night. He's busy. Yeah, Jim's busy.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He's doing stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
A lot going on last night. So you know, I
got a lot of work to do here. You know,
I take this stuff. I don't mail this stuff in
like some people.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Who are you looking at with that statement? Well, she sits,
she's right here and she can hear you. Look, I
was up last night.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I was watching I was watching the number one team
in the country get beat at home by a team
that didn't have its best player. And I'm reading Bill
Moose's book at the same time. All right, So I
was multitasking about seven o'clock last night.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is why Jim can't be disturbed.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
All right. I got a lot going on. I'm trying
to process it all to make it easy to follow
and understand for the vast kfab audience that we serve
every day. Okay, well it's a you know, never too
late to start doing that. I'll be making fun of
me while I'm doing my work over here. You just
do whatever it is you do over there. We yourself.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We still don't know Scott atkfab dot com. You can
email via the Zonker's custom woods inbox, as Luke has
done this morning here on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
See this is what I knew that I would get
Lucy Luke all capital letters like he's posting for the
president on truth social says Scott stop saying that we
(07:31):
have three months of winter possible. May twenty first, Scott's
bluff got blasted with three feet of snow. Yeah, but
it was I didn't stay long, but it wasn't there
for several weeks. It was there for a few days.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Not three feet. I think three feet probably would have
stayed there a little bit longer than just a few days.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It was there for seven and a half hours. It
was it was like eighty degrees that afternoon. It's not
a big deal. I just here's what I can't take.
I can't take looking outside, seeing the fifty mile per
hour wind gus making it forty below zero, gray skies,
and then looking at the forecast and seeing that it's
(08:18):
gonna be like that for two weeks. That that's my
definition of winter, and that is done. That's what I'm saying.
We might have done for two weeks. Yeah, well it's
but it's just I'll say it against joy. It's we're gonna,
we're gonna, We're gonna get Yeah, I'm gonna be able
(08:39):
to play outside with my friends, ride bikes, build ramps,
jump some curbs. Okay, well, we'll get some days that
are cold and windy and maybe even snowy, probably even snowy,
But it's not gonna be something where it sets in
and it just lingers for two to three weeks. That
winter that's behind us. And so that's why I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Go check the Vegas odds on that and I'll get
back to you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Fine, throw all your money at it. I think there's
lots of apps where you can predict that thing. Everyone
else in the country is cold and snowy. In Florida,
they're freezing.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Iguana's dropping out of the trees, We.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Got iguaniccles falling onto people's heads as they walk around
in Florida, all bundled up with stuff that they didn't
even know. They like, well, yeah, I got a sweater
in the basement, and they don't have basements in Florida.
But you know, we're fine. Omaha is the new San Diego,
and it's gonna be sunny and seventy every single day
for the rest of our lives. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Let me know about you think our property values are
our property texts are bad.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Now, Luke is like, all right, now you've done it.
Now you've changed said. Okay, you're free to spend all
of your Tuesday morning with us. We'll try and give
you a few things to listen to throughout the morning.
Lucy Chapman with timesab traffic updates and witty banter and
so forth, keeping us between the ditches in all different
forms of that phrase throughout the morning.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Here, did you see those deer? We're still there.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The deer is still there. We've got hey if you
if you want a couple a ten point buck. I
don't think that I don't think that's what they are. But
there's some good sized deer in the median on one
hundred and sixty eighth near Blondeo.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's between Locust and Dora Hayman.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Dora Hayman who is she?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I'm not sure. Ask Jim he would probably know that.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He's going to act like he knows the Dora Hayman
Parkway in West Omaha. Who's Dora Hayman? Never heard of her?
Come out and drive around? Now you make me look
it up? Uh? Is it the Is it Haman? Is
it Dora Haman or Haybe? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I think it's Hayman. But yeah, those deer are only
about five feet apart, perfectly placed in the median because
that's not a wide median, and they're still there. I
think the city left them there to warn the other deers.
Oh it's this will happen to you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
See, Dora Haymon is part of the Starter Hayman family.
That's the great jewelers here in town and throughout Nebraska.
So yeah, I didn't know that. So there, Lucy, your
your query has led to us all learning something and
unless everyone else knew it, and we did well.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Rick Hayman sold me my wife's engagement ring so we
could probably get him on and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So it's his fault must be No, no, that's what
Janna is saying this morning. Oh missus, missus Jim Rose
of the Jim Roses, by the way, good morning, thanks
for being here. Here's another name for you, Gallaane Maxwell.
I wonder how many kids the last few years have
been born and named Gallaane? Is that just one of
(11:48):
those names that just now goes away throughout history. Not
that I've known any Gallains in my entire life, but
it does remind me there is just some names that,
after it becomes it notorious, you can't name your kids
that anymore. I remember standing in front of a comedy
(12:11):
club and I don't know how I got a chance
to be a part of this conversation with two of
these are some good nineteen nineties era stand up comedian
names for you, Kevin Meanie and Bobby Slayton anyone, Okay,
So these two guys, they just happen to be hanging
out there. One of them is headlining, the other ones
just in town and want to come to comedy club.
(12:31):
And I got a chance to be between these two
guys who are super, super funny guys. And Kevin Meanie
is trying to convince Bobby Slaton because they haven't seen
each other in a while, and Slayton's like, how's everything going. Kevin,
It's like, great, you know, my wife had another kid,
sweet little girl, little John Bennet. And he's saying it's
so deadpan and letting it hang there and watching Bobby's
(12:55):
face try and decide whether or not that's a joke.
It took a few beats finally Kevin let him off
the hook. But that's see, that's another one. You can't
name your kid, John Benney.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Don't you think it's still too soon?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, it's been thirty years to talk.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
About it, to talk about her this way, I mean,
it's so tragic, it's so old.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, no, it's it's not a it's not a joke
about why are you bringing us down? It's it's saying
it's it's reinforcing that names.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You know, it's it's like Adolph's running around little.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, exactly, No, little Adolph many miles right, or like
my my nephew who was born before two thousand and one,
on the date of September eleventh, that was just his
birthday until about a couple of years later. You know,
so now like your your.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Birthday thought, he changed his mind.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
No, is now your birthday is your birthday until suddenly
it's a notorious horrible day in history, like November twenty
second for people who are in their their seventies. Now
it was just their birthday until it became one of
the worst days ever. So Gallaine Maxwell the Epstein Madam.
There's another name that's been dragged out here in the
(14:11):
Epstein file thing, and that is a guy that runs
a talent agency, Casey Wasserman, and one of his clients
is Chapel Roone. And she's all dignified now. She's the
one who went to the Grammy's pretty much naked and
her hit songs about dancing at a strip club. And
she says, I Am not going to deal with people
who don't align with my moral values. So she's dropping
(14:34):
him as a talent agent because part of the Epstein
dump includes suggestive emails that he wrote her Gallaine Maxwell,
including a one statement, I think of you all the time.
What do I have to do to see you in
a tight leather outfit? I'm guessing with her, probably just
ask it can't be that hard.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I doubt you would have to ask right at the
Island days. That's probably she was wearing all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But there's nothing in there about can't wait to see
you and all of the girls at the eyelet, none
of that. Apparently he just was he had the hots
for her for some reason. I like girls that look
like Scott Bao, what are you doing on Friday? So
there's nothing in there that suggests he did anything illegal. Chutty, Yeah,
but she's like, I won't have anything to do with you,
(15:24):
and I don't know. I feel kind of bad for
the guy. The heart wants what the heart wants, even
if your heart is leading you astray.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But they weren't romantically linked.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I don't know her.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
There the chapelone and her manager. It was just her manager.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
No, He just like, I'm sorry you were into her,
so I'm not going to use you as an agent.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
She was just looking for an excuse she wanted out.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You think the girl that wore the naked dress to
the Grammys was looking for attention? How dare you?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think that a lot of women who dress like
that have a.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Very touchmental Mike is accusing us of talking about the
book by former Nebraska athletic director Bill Moose, but not
mentioning the title. Does this book have a title.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Crab Creek Chronicles? What the heck does that?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I think Crab Creek is the creek he grew up
near in Washington. That makes no sense. Okay, Well, let
me get on the phone to Bill to hear jo.
I'd love to talk to Bill again. I've only had
a couple of small, little conversations with him. I liked him,
but I found him delightful. He wasn't here very long,
probably not long enough to write a tell all book
(16:35):
about his time at Nebraska, so as that's what this
seems to be. I'm sure he also mentioned his time
up in It's not the whole book. Okay, yeah, it's
not the entire book.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's it's a memoir of his life growing up on
a farm in the Great American West playing college football.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Who cares I want to talk about through the ranks
to here? Why would he write about his time at Nebraska?
And why would anyone care? Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well, that's a good question. I think that why would
anybody care about any tell all book? Honestly, Scott, we
like driving past accident scenes. That's something Americans have done
up for a long time. We slow down when there's
a massive accident because we want to see the depth
of the destruction. And that's why tell all books are successful,
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especially by celebrities. And in this case, I think Nebraskans
will read it. I don't know how many. I don't
know that it's going to be a best seller in
Nebraska because it's a really small part of a larger book.
They're going to say, well, my fears about the program
are confirmed. Now I was worried about what was happening,
and now my fears have been confirmed. That's what this
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book is going to do. And the overarching theme to
me is this Scott, and I've said this multiple times
on the radio. I watched it myself for a long time.
This athletic program went off the cliff because of leadership.
We had the wrong people at the top of the
food chain making poor decisions, who did not have the
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backbone to stand up to meddling regions. In this state
we elect the board of Regents. Most states appoint the
board of regents to run their universities. Here we elect them.
It's part of the thing I think the constitution, but
that entitles many of them to meddle in operations and
that's not their job. Their job is to approve a budget,
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monitor the president of the university and stay out of it. Okay,
establish academic guidelines and in some cases policies. But to
get involved in the hiring of coaches, To get involved
in the hiring and the operation of the day to
day workings of the athletic department is an area the
regents and the governor ought not be involved in, and
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yet they've inserted themselves. And when you have that kind
of dysfunction at the top, you will have issues at
the bottom. And that has led to bad athletic director hires,
that has led to bad coach hires, and that has
led to losses on the field.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
But to come out now, as Bill Moose seems to
be doing and saying with twenty twenty hindsight, I thought
Scott Frost was a bad hire. That sounds like total bunk.
That sounds like from the crap river.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Ironically, I don't believe it because I said it myself.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Okay, So, Husker Royalty had just coached Central Florida to
an undefeated season against an FCS schedule, and in this
new series of the Bowl Playoff, they may have been
a legitimate national championship contender. I don't know about that.
So now we get a chance to get this guy back.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I'm not saying it was a bad higher at the time,
but if you look at the metrics that you typically
use to judge the hire of a football coach, he
failed on every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But at the time political yeah, And I also said this,
the inert pressure from the fans and the political structure
at the university made it impossible to hire anybody else.
But it's also in this book that Frost didn't really
want this job. He didn't want to come back to
Nebraska because he had seen what had happened at the program.
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He was very happy in Orlando, which is something that
he has since testified to. And he was very reluctant
to take the job. But he was talked into it
by friends, talked into it by former coaches, talked into
it by family. But even Scott's better judgment, he deep
inside of him said I don't know if I'm ready
for this gig.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, But he was.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Immature, and he demonstrated that as coach. But Bill had
seen a lot of head coaches, He'd hired a lot
of coaches, he'd fired a lot of coaches. And in
the book he says, I just don't think this guy's ready.
But if I don't hire him, if I don't go
hard for him and hire him, and he goes to
Florida or Tennessee, which was also interested in Scott who
were also interested in Scott Frost. I'm going to lose
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my job, but his wife said, but if he fails,
you're going to lose your job too. So he was
really betwixt in between.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Uh, well, that was Bill. Part of it was Bill
Moose the guy short answer here, please, was Bill Moose
the guy that was going to turn around Nebraska football
in our athletic department. We don't know. We'll never know.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
There is evidence to suggest not, because if you talk
to some athletic department staffers who were there, they will
talk about a manager who was never there, who was absent,
who had surrounded himself by some of his you know,
legions from previous jobs that kept the rank and file
employees away from him. That was his management style. He
was much for an x much more an external athletic
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director than an internal one. Whereas Steve Peterson and Sean
I course were internals, he was more external.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So it's hard to say al Moose was a lot
better than I coursed. Yeah, and they're all better in Peterson.
So all right, let's again the overarching theme is why
do we keep hiring these people?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Why were the wrong people hired? And it's not their fault.
They took jobs that were offered, it's the people who offered.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Them the job. And again the book is called The
crab Creek Chronicles, the crab Tree Chronicles. Freak, Michael Crabtree.
That's that's what I so in my head, says Traffic
Weather and a news update. Next conversation about an effort
in the Unicamerra to do something on property taxes coming
up at seven thirty five. As Craig just reported, there
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a new bill in Nebraska would say, all right, minimum
wage for teachers is fifty thousand dollars a year. Jim,
you're you're really good at this kind of math. My
property taxes are now being eaten up by what percentage
when it goes to public education? Well about sixty some percent, Okay,
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And how's that going. What is the return on that
investment right now? Well, test scores in some corners aren't high,
not high. I also seen stats and this is not
just Nebraska, but just under sixty percent of US adults
now expect to be living high quality lives five years
from now. This is the lowest that has been in
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several decades. So now we've got educators who are providing
an education base for people who are now becoming adults
who have less and less hope in their future, that is,
if they can meet the very watered down low standards
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set by our education system. This is not to say
that there are not good teachers. Good teachers should be
paid their weight in gold, silver, and crypto. There are
not enough good teachers out there. Though there are some
awful teachers. There are some horrible decisions made by administrators
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block scheduling. For example, in Omaha public schools. What is that?
That's where they say, all right, rather than try and
get a teacher in here to really focus unit on
a subject for forty five minutes, we're making this class
an hour and a half. And if you've got a
bad teacher in there for an hour and a half,
you know what ends up happening with those kids during
that class time. They're watching movies, they're playing games on
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their phone, they're wandering around the school. They're not engaged,
and a good teacher can do that. There are a
lot of bad teachers, though, and they're worth their weight
in fecal matter. And I don't know. We're saying, all right,
we're gonna take these same teachers that are in some
instances bad and they're leading kids into despair, watered down
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benchmarks that these kids can't even meet because of these
poor teachers, and let's give them more money and expect
better results. I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's a little backward. But here's the thing, Scott. You know,
everybody's got an excuse. And if you were to go
to the largest teacher's administration and say how much to
deliver results? How much? Give us a number trillion? Is
it one hundred trillion, is it two hundred trillion the
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per student? Tell us how much you need to deliver results,
You'll never get a number no, because that means, oh, okay,
now you have to get the job done. We're giving
you the money you say you need to get the
job done. It's not getting done. Somebody has to pay
for that. But you'll never get a number. If you
were to go to the Omaha Public Schools Board of Education,
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say give us a per student number to get truancy
to zero, to get reading efficiencies to grade level, to
get you know, ninety five percent graduation rates. Give us
a number there, you'll never get it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The per student cost when our parents and grandparents were
in school was next to nothing. Those people were geniuses
compared to what we are seeing today, and the per
student costs in some school districts is upwards of fourteen fifteen,
sixteen thousand dollars a really balloon during COVID. I'm not
exactly sure if it's gone back down, but we're not
seeing those results now. The good teachers pay them a
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million dollars. Yeah, pleasure to welcome on to the program
here someone who is trying to do something that the
voters say all the time we need someone in Lincoln
to do, and that is something about property taxes. The estate.
Senator Bob Anderson right here in Omahan, joins us now
on news radio eleven ten kfab. Senator tell us how
you're going to make all of our property tax dreams
(26:22):
come true.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Thank you morning, Thank you very much for having me on.
What I will be introducing on Thursday in the Revenue
Committee is a constitutional amendment. And our reason is a
constitutional amendment advice of bill is because the valuation process
is articulated in the brass and constitutions, so you can't
change evaluation process without amendments to the constitution. The over
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guiding principles for this is one stomptability, stop taxing people
out of their homes. The second is providing tax obligation
or our property tax stability, and then predictability for everybody.
There's really two sizes of the equation. One is the
establishing a baseline valuation for a property. Now this applies
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to ranches, farmers, businesses, and residents, but other season a
home as an example. So whatever somebody would buy a
house for establishes a baseline valuation that doesn't change until
they actually would sell the home or whatever they whatever
their first assessment is whenever they build a home or
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they're already in the home, and then we'll use what
the twenty twenty six assessed level is. So established the
baseline valuation that doesn't change, and then the only thing
that changes is the actual levee and that'll be capped
at the CPI at the rate of inflation, and that's
what's going to provide the stability. So when I talked
to all the constituents in my district when the stocking doors,
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you know, everybody wanted to know why our evaluation is
going up, and why is the levee going up? Why
my tax is going up? And they didn't understand why,
and they didn't understand how much. Couldn't plan for the
future or anything else. And that's really the underline principle
of this is to really provide predictability and stability of
what people have to pay in property Texas every year
so they can actually develop a plan and adhere to
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a budget.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
California have voted for something called Proposition thirteen, and I
know you've heard the accusation that your plan is like
that one, which didn't go over very well for Californians
who were buying homes. There worked out better for long
term home and property owners, but for people buying a
home because under your proposal, the taxable value would not
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change till the property is sold. Suddenly, it makes homes
more expensive and that's already a problem we have here
in Nebraska and throughout the country.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Yeah, so the comparison to a Prop. Thirteen is kind
of faulty logic. So there are some principles that are
the same, such as having a baseline valuation doesn't change
until the house is sold. However, what California did was
they had some artificialities. For example, as somebody buys a
house for two hundred thousand dollars and then they sell
it ten years later and buy a house for half
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of the million, they could take that two hundred thousand
dollars valuation and move it to the new house. And
that's what caused the extreme problem. The same thing if
they sold to their family, their family would maintain their
same baseline valuation. So what it did was just extended
over decades and that's what causes stagnation and the problems
with the real estate market. And even I have a
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good friend that lived out there, lived through it, and
he said they would be having you know, car washes
and brownie sales in order by football gear for their
high school team. It was a significantly bad My constus
amnent has none of that in it.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Jim Senator, thanks for coming on, Thanks for actually trying
to do something here, because people are getting killed. You
have thirty one percent increases in Douglas County, thirty five
percent increases in some areas. How about this pass a
law dial back valuations to the year twenty ten three
percent a year, no levy increases without a sixty five
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percent voter turnout.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Well, that is one option with my test two some amendment.
I'm trying to keep it simple and very much understandable,
and that's why you freeze evaluation. And then the way
of inflation. Everybody understands that inflation happens, and that's just
the additional cost of goods and services every year. It
is quite understandable, so they would understand why their taxes
are going up and make sure that it predictable for
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them as well.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, but they don't see performance in schools. They see
test scores failing, They see kids that can't read at
three or four grade levels below their age. So the
return on investment right now is a tough sell for
public schools. So let's just go back to revenue. There's
not a revenue problem in Nebraska, Senator Anderson, we exempt
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six billion in sales in this community. There are very
few states that exempt the number of sales taxes that
Nebraska does.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
If we can double team here and get a last
response from you here, Senator. In addition to that, we
have a spending problem. And if we try and take
money from the property to away from the counties that
collect the property taxes, they're just going to jack up
the levy or they're going to raise our rate somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Yeah, I could agree with you more. We certainly have
a spending problem in this state. What my competition amendment
does is really is the foundation of it. We have
a lot more taxi form than needs to happen. I
agree with you with the performance in the school as
we spend over five and a half billion dollars a
year on K through twelve education, we've got to adopt
a better system than we have right now. But there's
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plenty of different taxi forms that need to be implemented
in addition to this constitutional movement.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Well, they you said you're introducing this with the Revenue
Committee this week. There will be a long road ahead.
Many people have thrown up their hands and said there
ne would be anything meaningful done on this front. If
you're able to get it done, maybe we can get
a county bridge named in your honor. Okay, at least
name something, Matt. Yeah, thanks for working on this and
we'll talk more as the process goes along. Okay, thank
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you very much for having me, Almaha State Senator Bob Anders.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
And right, somebody's OX needs to get gord for there
to be changed, and nobody is willing to sacrifice their
own OX, and nobody is willing to risk losing an election.
And until we get past this, Scott, we are not
going to get structural, sustainable change. I don't somebody has
to be willing to have the teachers union, or the
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League of Municipalities or a collection of city council people
and county board members and mayors say I'm going to
work against you in the next election because you're you're
gore in my OX here.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I don't know how to gore an OX. I don't
even call it. I am the namesake of the email
address Scott at kfab dot com in the Zonker's custom
What's Inbox? Scott borhees here with you on news radio
eleven ten. Kfab I mentioned earlier this push by the
legislature to make a baseline fifty thousand dollars a year
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minimum wage for teachers in the state of Nebraska is
I It's one of those things where you can possibly
argue against it, right unless you're a jerk like me
and say, yeah, great, teachers should be paid twice that amount.
There are a lot of bad teachers who don't deserve it,
and we need to weed them out. Jay Emails says,
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after thirty two years of teaching, I've watched teachers go
from caring and helpful to looking at their phones and
doing everything online. It's not the money, not for most,
It's it's about support. Administrators and boards do not support
the teacher. They support the parent, and therefore the student
kids run the schools. No discipline is allowed. Please don't
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use my last name. I know your teachers, and I'm
telling you I understand why teachers. We don't read anyone's
last names in an email address, and we never do that.
But we understand why teachers are like, don't identify with school.
I get all that, But as long as the good teachers,
like someone who may or may not be named Jay,
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never push back, never say anything, then this continues. Now
We've also got the other side of this, because I
said block scheduling is awful. Colleen says, block scheduling helped
my children because the teachers don't just talk the whole time.
It gives them time to spend individual time, working one
on one with students, so these students are not overwhelmed
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by too many classes at once. It helps the ADHD students.
I've had two of them. Broadcasting is full of them
who said that, oh, yeah, it was this email I
was reading. Look, I certainly don't want to sound like
I'm coming at Colleen or her kids. Not every student
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needs individualized care during a classroom period. It used to
be that you would have that kind of thing after school,
and you would work with a student and their family
to make sure that the students weren't just being left
behind in class and if fantastic teachers are really great
at that. Too often now we get bad teachers who
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are not providing that individualized care with the students who
need it. Instead, they're just saying, all right, everyone, you
got free time for the next hour, and kids are
watching movies and YouTube videos and doing social media stuff
on their phones, and they ask the kids if anyone
needs any extra help, come up and ask me, and
the kids who need that help won't do it because
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you don't want to be that kid that goes up
and admits to the rest of the class. I need
a little help from this teacher, and they might not
get it anyway, because that teacher might not be very good.
Those teachers should be fired, not giving a raise. I
want better teachers. I want all good teachers. I want
kids to learn to read. Lindsey Vaughn breaking her leg
in thirty eight places or whatever, it was a complex
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to be a fracture, and she says, I'm good. I
regret nothing. I'm glad. I try to make a comeback
and do the downhill skiing even though I broke a
leg forty one years old. This is presumably the end
of her Olympic career. But she's tough. Good for her.
I love her spirit. But wow, she's got a lot
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of stuff I don't have, like the ability to go
out and do something that might cause a leg to snap.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
No, I could see you doing that just walking down
the stairs.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Now, I'm I play basketball in the driveway with my
son and I come down awkwardly and I feel it
in my knees sometimes, and I think, I wonder how
many of these I have left before I just snap
an ackle or my knee gives out or whatever. But
I wouldn't want to give it up either. Good for her.
I mean, I don't know those people out there in
the sidelines going, well, it serves are right. She's too old.
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Oh and you, you're twenty four years old, morbidly obese.
You've never considered doing anything athletic in your entire life.
But please feel free to judge Lindsey Vaughn. I just
think it's amazing that she's like, I broke my leg,
big deal. I regret nothing. She's got a lot of guts.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
She's one of the truly great competitors in Olympic recent
Olympic history, and I'm sad that she suffered that serious injury.
But you do wonder how competitive was she going to
be with a torn ACL. She said, I believe I
can still win a medal with a torn ACL, and
maybe she would have.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Well, Downhill skiing's easy. The skis do all the work.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Downhill skiing is easy. Then was the last time you
were on a slope? Well, you're going about one thousand
miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Well, earlier this season, I slid on the ice. Yeah,
that qualified. Just the skis do the work. It's just
gravity at that point. It's just lack of friction and gravity.
What's the big deal. Everyone's acting like I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
We do have a couple of controversies at the Olympics.
So one apparently the medals are falling apart, cheap medals.
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This after the Summer Olympics two years ago where the
medals were starting tarnish and corrode, giving them a look
that started to look like lizard skin or crocodile skin.
The battalions and now people are celebrating after winning their medals.
The medals are snapping loose, the clasps are breaking, medals
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are falling on the floor breaking. So there's there's saying
we thought there were.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Solid gold, solid silk.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
We had one, and then we had one. Look at
the metal. Started peeling it off and then ate the center.
That was a piece of candy. That was not a
gold medalist, that was something you got for.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Right up there on the metal stand. They were hungry.
They started peeling that gold off and ate.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
It and and then, and then you've got this controversy
the how do I put this? There's an anti doping agency.
They got to make sure that no one's doing anything
like just jacking themselves up with steroids and all that.
We get that, we heard about all that. But as
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it turns out, if you are doing ski jumping you
want a bigger suit. It makes no sense to me.
I would think that your your suit, if it's a
little less tight, would actually increase more drag. But they
say that even a two centimeter increase in suit circumference
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can reduce drag by four percent increase lift by five percent. Yes,
I guess you've got a little more parachute to you
that could increase lift and add nearly six meters to
a jump. That's the difference between gold medal and going
home with the no broken metals. So how do you
get even just a two centimeter two centimeter increase in
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the circumference of your suit? Well tough the suit when
they are fitting you for your suit. The allegation here
is that athletes are stuffing clay in their undergarments to
temporarily alter the measurements which are taken from a three
D scanner. From every part of your body, and if
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you've got a part of your body that needs a
little more room, then your entire suit gets a little
bit more room. The allegations include stuffing things in the
undergarments and in some instances, athletes using some sort of
acid injection in a very sensitive area to engorge said area,
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and therefore say like, I need a bigger suit, it's
getting a little tight here in the the U in
the undercarriage, and doing so will give you a bit
more suit and add potential six meters to your jump.
This is a male accusation, or it's the Olympics that
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could be on the female side too. Is that just
in boxing? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
But can I ask a question real quick?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Oh I want to answer? Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I want to know if there were no rules about this,
would everybody be able to wear the suit that they
wanted to whatever size it was. Why is there a
limit on the suit you wear when if everybody could
wear the suit they wanted, what if I want to
wear snow pants and a giant parkat well? I mean,
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why would that be an issue?
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Then it wouldn't be about the athlete, It would be
about the equipment. But that so what these guys are
artificially increasing the size of their equipment to get bigger equipment.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
That's pay site.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Usually.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
You know, in competition you're trying to shrink that area
because there's less mass, But the aerodynamics of skis and
downhill skiing says, hey, no, you know that airflow through
there could gets you a little bit more left.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah, you don't want everybody.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Would be able to buy the suit that they wanted
and whatever size they wanted.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
They'll be out there floating through the air like Batman then.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
But everybody would have the ability to do that if
they wanted.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
This only is a good thing in ski jumping. You
don't want to do this in swimming. That's a rudder.
Dave points out this was just moments ago that the
same place where Lindsey Vaughn wiped out and busted up
her leg just felled. One of her teammates, Gate four
there on the K twelve or whatever they call it
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in Milan, has just ended. Teammate Bella Wright's portion of
the American team combined event same place she went sliding
off and down the mountain and no one's seen her.
I'm just seeing if Lucy's paying attention now. She wiped
out and in the same place. Yeah, same place.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Are they gonna build it up with some more snow?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah? She well, she didn't crash, but she she had
to right herself to avoid veering offline and then missed
the gate. That's the same place where Von had her injuries.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Has anybody checked her suit? I?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
I mean I will, but thank you Craig, No, I
don't think they'd be checking anybody's suit. They said that
this downhill there in Milan is they might as well
be going down Mount Everest on the hard side. You
know that there's just incredibly dangerous. And I just keep
having flashes of the fantastic John Cusack movie Better Op Dead,
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where David Ogden, not David Oginstar's Curtis Armstrong's at the
top of the mountain saying go that way really fast.
If something gets in your way, turn best skeen advice ever. Lucy,
you look like you shop in a lot of thrift stores.
Are you upset that one of those in Benson is
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going away? And when I say shop in various thrift stores,
I mean dig through the dumpsters in the back to
see if you can find anything that accidentally got thrown away.
I figured that's just kind of what your fashion sin.
It's also thrifty, you know, there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
A lot of guys it's hard to find clothes this big.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
A lot of guys think Minnie Pearl was attractive. So what,
I've been shopping in the thrift stores in Benson since
I was a teenager in this town. Oh you haven't, Yes,
I have you raws and people never went that far north, don't.
You don't know? And I've got high school pictures to
prove it. So what, I decided that shopping in thrift
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stores was cool long before that song about ah wear
your grandma's clothes.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
So what can you say that you went to the
Puppy Palace and had ice cream and pizza Burghers in Benson?
Or Louis for the the foot Long or the Benson Bakery?
Can you say you went to any of those?
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Well, I mean, Louis will say that it was a
foot long, but I disagree. No, I went to the
Pink Poodle and Crescent. Does that count? No? Okay? The
owner of the Found Vintage Market, they're in Benson, right
on that strip of maple they said, we just got
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to call this story from KMTV three. They say, we
got a call from our landlord that said, hey, I'm
selling the building, gotta go, apparently using the same script
that Ron Burgundy used, like you're pregnant. Can't do the news, Ron,
I know it's you. You've got knocked up. Yeah, selling
the building, gotta go, win as soon as possible. So,
like everything is, how do you discount prices on a
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place that already has discounted prices?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Will you just move?
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Well, they're trying, and she says that I sell refurbished
in custom furniture, and we've also gotten you know, clothes
and things like that, and I'm trying to find a
new location. But if you've been in the same spot
for years and they've been there for eight years, property
values haven't gone down in eight years. So now you've
got to she can't sell anything, she's been renting the place.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Well, maybe the person who buys the building will keep
it retail.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
I don't know. Well that's true. I suppose you could
always try and negotiate with the new owner and go, hey,
maybe maybe we need an eighteenth vintage market here in Benson.
They got a lot of them there.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
Yeah. But however, with that idea, when you look at
all of the apartments that are going up across every
single little tiny nook and cranny in Omah, I don't
know who's rent in all these apartments, but when you
look at all the apartments they're building, it's probably it
was probably bought for an apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
I'm trying to think exactly which one of the vintage
markets this place is. But anywhere I picture anything there
on Maple and Benson, I can't picture enough room for apartments.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Oh, if there is a building there, there's enough room
for an apartment.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Yeah, you can have a few lofts in there, I suppose.
But cool area. That's a really very cool part of town.
And once they find some parking, I might actually go
down there and do something.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Well, that's valid it is.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
It is a long Maple Street and Benson. I've seen
a lot of great bands there at the waiting room
had been a part of some really cool Marni's waiting
room Benson Theater. I don't know about that. And when
Emory moved to Omaha, I said, let's go get a
beer after your show, and we were hanging out at
one of the various places to do such things, and
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there was a woman walking right down the sidewalk completely topless.
And I know what you're thinking, guys, and the answer
is no. But I was like, welcome to Omaha Emory.
I think he's been back in that same seat ever since.
Never saw her again. She's got to come back here
again sometime. It's seventy degrees in February. Why wouldn't she
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be out trying to sun them? So, yeah, that's a
cool spot. You feel bad when suddenly the landlord is
just like, yeah, sound the building and you got to
go like, win, what time is it? Get out? She
said she was just starting to work with Benson High
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School and try and give jobs in her market there
to special need students at Benson. Oh man, I know.
So it's you know, this is the kind of place
where you got people in the community doing what's right
for the community. I hope the next owners and whatever
ends up in that space finds a similar good thing
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to do with that, And maybe for the remaining businesses there,
whether they're selling vintage goods or pizza, beer or whatever,
but probably not they're selling beer, but maybe they can
reach out to Benson and say, hey, I understand that
there were gonna be some job opportunities. We would love
to hire people, but if.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
They were selling beer, that's a vinted shop. I'd go to.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Well, yeah, I mean, you're not gonna have high school
kids generally selling beer. Maybe some of the older seniors
there could do for yourself. How do you think I
finance college? I meant like a change in a in
a restaurant or bar atmosphere legally selling beer, not like
my older brothers, as a Schlitz twelve pack that I get, Yeah,
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and we'll sell it to you.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
Hey, I got a whole refrigerator full of Ham's beer
because you know, we were talking about Hams the other
day and somebody dropped off a case and I'm plowing
through that.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
Yeah, and you are plowed. The Governor Pillen says, Turning
Point USA will have a chapter in every Nebraska high school.
Do they have to What happens if they don't? What
happens if no students want to be a part of
Turning Point ussa's chapter because they're afraid of getting beat
up by their fellow students and faculty members for having
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This is, after all, the organization that many of us
first learned about when that girl at University of Nebraska
Lincoln was just sitting there in you know, on a sidewalk.
I guess they were amongst other organizations that were putting
out tables saying do you want to join the robot club?
Do you want to join the glee club? Do you
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want to join the football team? You know, they had
the tables out there for anyone where they needed warm
bodies for something. And she was out there with a
display for Turning Point USA and had two faculty members
from the English department harassing and threatening her. And then
you saw what happened in Fremont the other day where
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the guy with the Trump flag probably was looking to
get into it with the students who were out there
protesting ICE, and then they got into it out there.
So if you come out and announced that, yeah, I'm
just kind of interested in what these guys have to say.
You know, it's Charlie Kirk made a lot of sense.
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I don't agree with everything he said every single day,
but I'm interested in learning more. Plus there are girls there,
so I thought maybe i'd go to the meeting. You
might be a target for your fellow classmate. Here's a secret.
Here's how to know if your fellow classmates might be
closet conservatives. Do they rant and rave and scream every
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day and blame all of their troubles on Donald Trump?
If not, they might be closet conservatives. And as I
was talking earlier, as they're talking about fifty thousand dollars
a year minimum salary for Nebraska teachers, let's see how
many teachers and teachers organizations fight back against just making
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as an option the Turning Point USA Chapter to be
in every Nebraska high school. Now as it is, any
student can start a Turning Point USA chapter. You don't
even need to invite Kid Rock to your school. You
can just start one
I don't feel like I can jinx things when I
say this, Lucy, but I really don't. I mean, you
look at the long term forecast and you look at
the calendar, and when I'm here's what I'm not saying.
I'm not saying that it's not going to get cold.
I'm not saying that we're not going to get a
blast of snow. We might get a huge blast of snow.
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It happens all the time here in Omaha, where March, April,
even early May suddenly you get like eight inches of snow.
But here's what I am saying, it's not going to
set back in and stick around for weeks on end.
I think winter, And let me know if I'm jinxing things.
(00:44):
I think winter is done.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Stop stop.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What do you think is going to happen? You think
marks all the time?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Usually we get this in January.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You think, yeah, but you know it certainly does you
get some nice days December January, but usually February you
got to wait till the end of the month. But
when you look at the long term forecast, I'm looking
week and a half, two weeks out, there's no winter there,
and two weeks out that puts us to the last
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week of February, the final days of February.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, the government just wants us to get settled into
a nice pattern before they hit us again with some
fake weather.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That's fine. The nice thing about a big March snowstorm
is like it snows like crazy. Maybe the kids get
a snow day and it's a and it's not a
like thirty below zero kind of a snow. It's like,
you know, mid twenties. The kids are out playing in
the sun and the snow, and the snow starts melting
within a couple of days and by the weekend we're
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all out going for walks. Again. That's the that's your
March snowstorm. It's not going to be like, well, we've
got forty below zero settling in here, and it looks
like it's going to be like that for the next
two weeks. I don't see that happening in March. Now.
I'm here's what I and here's another thing I'm not saying.
(02:10):
I'm not saying. And so it's going to be beautiful
and warm, and you know, we're probably gonna get it
some really rainy, windy weather that might be colder than
normal and creates a phenomenon around here known as mud season.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We hate that.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You would probably get a little mud season here into March,
but I think the days of the really bad sub
zero temperatures and all that. Now again, someone's gonna be
like the guy and the radio said, I can start planning, faulbs.
I'm not saying that. I just no, but it will
be your fault, you know. And see I'm trying to
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ward against that. I don't need someone coming here in
three weeks going. You said it wasn't gonna get colder, snowy. Oh,
I'm saying it's not gonna be hold her snowy for
two weeks straight, maybe a couple of days.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It is so hard not to get out in the
yard when you've got weather like that. It's it's everything
I could take from yesterday going out and doing some
clean up and doing some stuff. I know I didn't
do it.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I got home with about an hour a daylight left
yesterday and I extracted my wife from the house. I said,
I don't care what you're doing. We're going for a walk.
She's like, okay, let me, uh me, let me put
some shoes on. No, yeah, like it's that nice on
my wife's home barefoot and pregnant. She's neither barefoot nor pregnant,
(03:43):
but yeah, wouldn't that be something, honey, So did.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You pick up the trash?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I extracted her. Did I? Yeah, She's like, I'll go
for a walk with you if you take the trash out.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
No, what with all the wind we have had this year,
this wind, sure there is trash in the backyard. I
picked up a few pieces.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm always picking up trash or telling my kid go
out there and pick that up. But we went. We
went for a good walk. We walked all the way
up to the park and then lamented that our kids
are old and not cute anymore. And it reminded me
of the first really nice day after my daughter was
born in February. This is almost nineteen years ago. She's
(04:28):
gonna be nineteen in a couple of weeks. After like
a couple of weeks, it was this really nice, warm
day like yesterday, and I went out and bought one
of those strollers we can take the car seat and
put it in the stroller, like a big SUV stroller,
not crazy big, and just went walking around the neighborhood
how's it going good to see my new baby? This
(04:49):
is this is my daughter, you know, and like taking
her out to the park even though she was like
three weeks old. Someday you're gonna play on these swings
and I didn't have the foresight to say. And then
shortly thereafter, within the blink of an eye, you'll be
away at college and you won't be young and cute anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You know what that means.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
He's an old hag.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Now, yeah, it's time to get a dog.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
And my wife's talking about cats. Now she's talking about cats.
She's a cat lady.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well she'll be a dog lady then, no.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We, you know, exactly have the lifestyle for dogs. I'm
gone a lot throughout the day. She's gone a lot
throughout the day. Our kids are almost out, you know,
So that dog's just going to be in a pan
or a cage. You're wandering around the house by itself
all day.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Get yourself a purse dog and take them with you.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Cats want to be left home alone all day. Now
someone's going to be emailing going. Cats don't want You
don't know what cats want.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Nobody does.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That lady with the ninety some cats from the other day.
I'll tell you what cats want. They want to cuddle
with a several dozen other cats.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
No, they want to move out those Lucy.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know, it would be really funny if we just
ignore Jim Rose the rest of the morning. By the way,
we get emails from listeners going every time you and
Lucy talk. I like it, But I feel like Jim
is just sitting there patiently waiting for his chance to speak.
It was a long night. He's busy. Yeah, Jim's busy.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
He's doing stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
A lot going on last night. So you know, I
got a lot of work to do here. You know,
I take this stuff. I don't mail this stuff in
like some people.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Who are you looking at with that statement? Well, she sits,
she's right here and she can hear you. Look, I
was up last night.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I was watching I was watching the number one team
in the country get beat at home by a team
that didn't have its best player. And I'm reading Bill
Moose's book at the same time. All right, So I
was multitasking about seven o'clock last night.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is why Jim can't be disturbed.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
All right. I got a lot going on. I'm trying
to process it all to make it easy to follow
and understand for the vast kfab audience that we serve
every day. Okay, well it's a you know, never too
late to start doing that. I'll be making fun of
me while I'm doing my work over here. You just
do whatever it is you do over there. We yourself.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We still don't know Scott atkfab dot com. You can
email via the Zonker's custom woods inbox, as Luke has
done this morning here on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
See this is what I knew that I would get
Lucy Luke all capital letters like he's posting for the
president on truth social says Scott stop saying that we
(07:31):
have three months of winter possible. May twenty first, Scott's
bluff got blasted with three feet of snow. Yeah, but
it was I didn't stay long, but it wasn't there
for several weeks. It was there for a few days.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Not three feet. I think three feet probably would have
stayed there a little bit longer than just a few days.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It was there for seven and a half hours. It
was it was like eighty degrees that afternoon. It's not
a big deal. I just here's what I can't take.
I can't take looking outside, seeing the fifty mile per
hour wind gus making it forty below zero, gray skies,
and then looking at the forecast and seeing that it's
(08:18):
gonna be like that for two weeks. That that's my
definition of winter, and that is done. That's what I'm saying.
We might have done for two weeks. Yeah, well it's
but it's just I'll say it against joy. It's we're gonna,
we're gonna, We're gonna get Yeah, I'm gonna be able
(08:39):
to play outside with my friends, ride bikes, build ramps,
jump some curbs. Okay, well, we'll get some days that
are cold and windy and maybe even snowy, probably even snowy,
But it's not gonna be something where it sets in
and it just lingers for two to three weeks. That
winter that's behind us. And so that's why I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Go check the Vegas odds on that and I'll get
back to you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Fine, throw all your money at it. I think there's
lots of apps where you can predict that thing. Everyone
else in the country is cold and snowy. In Florida,
they're freezing.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Iguana's dropping out of the trees, We.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Got iguaniccles falling onto people's heads as they walk around
in Florida, all bundled up with stuff that they didn't
even know. They like, well, yeah, I got a sweater
in the basement, and they don't have basements in Florida.
But you know, we're fine. Omaha is the new San Diego,
and it's gonna be sunny and seventy every single day
for the rest of our lives. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Let me know about you think our property values are
our property texts are bad.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Now, Luke is like, all right, now you've done it.
Now you've changed said. Okay, you're free to spend all
of your Tuesday morning with us. We'll try and give
you a few things to listen to throughout the morning.
Lucy Chapman with timesab traffic updates and witty banter and
so forth, keeping us between the ditches in all different
forms of that phrase throughout the morning.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Here, did you see those deer? We're still there.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
The deer is still there. We've got hey if you
if you want a couple a ten point buck. I
don't think that I don't think that's what they are. But
there's some good sized deer in the median on one
hundred and sixty eighth near Blondeo.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's between Locust and Dora Hayman.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Dora Hayman who is she?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I'm not sure. Ask Jim he would probably know that.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
He's going to act like he knows the Dora Hayman
Parkway in West Omaha. Who's Dora Hayman? Never heard of her?
Come out and drive around? Now you make me look
it up? Uh? Is it the Is it Haman? Is
it Dora Haman or Haybe? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I think it's Hayman. But yeah, those deer are only
about five feet apart, perfectly placed in the median because
that's not a wide median, and they're still there. I
think the city left them there to warn the other deers.
Oh it's this will happen to you.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
See, Dora Haymon is part of the Starter Hayman family.
That's the great jewelers here in town and throughout Nebraska.
So yeah, I didn't know that. So there, Lucy, your
your query has led to us all learning something and
unless everyone else knew it, and we did well.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Rick Hayman sold me my wife's engagement ring so we
could probably get him on and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So it's his fault must be No, no, that's what
Janna is saying this morning. Oh missus, missus Jim Rose
of the Jim Roses, by the way, good morning, thanks
for being here. Here's another name for you, Gallaane Maxwell.
I wonder how many kids the last few years have
been born and named Gallaane? Is that just one of
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those names that just now goes away throughout history. Not
that I've known any Gallains in my entire life, but
it does remind me there is just some names that,
after it becomes it notorious, you can't name your kids
that anymore. I remember standing in front of a comedy
(12:11):
club and I don't know how I got a chance
to be a part of this conversation with two of
these are some good nineteen nineties era stand up comedian
names for you, Kevin Meanie and Bobby Slayton anyone, Okay,
So these two guys, they just happen to be hanging
out there. One of them is headlining, the other ones
just in town and want to come to comedy club.
(12:31):
And I got a chance to be between these two
guys who are super, super funny guys. And Kevin Meanie
is trying to convince Bobby Slaton because they haven't seen
each other in a while, and Slayton's like, how's everything going. Kevin,
It's like, great, you know, my wife had another kid,
sweet little girl, little John Bennet. And he's saying it's
so deadpan and letting it hang there and watching Bobby's
(12:55):
face try and decide whether or not that's a joke.
It took a few beats finally Kevin let him off
the hook. But that's see, that's another one. You can't
name your kid, John Benney.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Don't you think it's still too soon?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, it's been thirty years to talk.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
About it, to talk about her this way, I mean,
it's so tragic, it's so old.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No, no, it's it's not a it's not a joke
about why are you bringing us down? It's it's saying
it's it's reinforcing that names.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You know, it's it's like Adolph's running around little.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, exactly, No, little Adolph many miles right, or like
my my nephew who was born before two thousand and one,
on the date of September eleventh, that was just his
birthday until about a couple of years later. You know,
so now like your your.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Birthday thought, he changed his mind.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
No, is now your birthday is your birthday until suddenly
it's a notorious horrible day in history, like November twenty
second for people who are in their their seventies. Now
it was just their birthday until it became one of
the worst days ever. So Gallaine Maxwell the Epstein Madam.
There's another name that's been dragged out here in the
(14:11):
Epstein file thing, and that is a guy that runs
a talent agency, Casey Wasserman, and one of his clients
is Chapel Roone. And she's all dignified now. She's the
one who went to the Grammy's pretty much naked and
her hit songs about dancing at a strip club. And
she says, I Am not going to deal with people
who don't align with my moral values. So she's dropping
(14:34):
him as a talent agent because part of the Epstein
dump includes suggestive emails that he wrote her Gallaine Maxwell,
including a one statement, I think of you all the time.
What do I have to do to see you in
a tight leather outfit? I'm guessing with her, probably just
ask it can't be that hard.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
I doubt you would have to ask right at the
Island days. That's probably she was wearing all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
But there's nothing in there about can't wait to see
you and all of the girls at the eyelet, none
of that. Apparently he just was he had the hots
for her for some reason. I like girls that look
like Scott Bao, what are you doing on Friday? So
there's nothing in there that suggests he did anything illegal. Chutty, Yeah,
but she's like, I won't have anything to do with you,
(15:24):
and I don't know. I feel kind of bad for
the guy. The heart wants what the heart wants, even
if your heart is leading you astray.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
But they weren't romantically linked.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I don't know her.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
There the chapelone and her manager. It was just her manager.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
No, He just like, I'm sorry you were into her,
so I'm not going to use you as an agent.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
She was just looking for an excuse she wanted out.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You think the girl that wore the naked dress to
the Grammys was looking for attention? How dare you?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I think that a lot of women who dress like
that have a.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Very touchmental Mike is accusing us of talking about the
book by former Nebraska athletic director Bill Moose, but not
mentioning the title. Does this book have a title.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Crab Creek Chronicles? What the heck does that?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I think Crab Creek is the creek he grew up
near in Washington. That makes no sense. Okay, Well, let
me get on the phone to Bill to hear jo.
I'd love to talk to Bill again. I've only had
a couple of small, little conversations with him. I liked him,
but I found him delightful. He wasn't here very long,
probably not long enough to write a tell all book
(16:35):
about his time at Nebraska, so as that's what this
seems to be. I'm sure he also mentioned his time
up in It's not the whole book. Okay, yeah, it's
not the entire book.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's it's a memoir of his life growing up on
a farm in the Great American West playing college football.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Who cares I want to talk about through the ranks
to here? Why would he write about his time at Nebraska?
And why would anyone care? Oh?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Well, that's a good question. I think that why would
anybody care about any tell all book? Honestly, Scott, we
like driving past accident scenes. That's something Americans have done
up for a long time. We slow down when there's
a massive accident because we want to see the depth
of the destruction. And that's why tell all books are successful,
(17:24):
especially by celebrities. And in this case, I think Nebraskans
will read it. I don't know how many. I don't
know that it's going to be a best seller in
Nebraska because it's a really small part of a larger book.
They're going to say, well, my fears about the program
are confirmed. Now I was worried about what was happening,
and now my fears have been confirmed. That's what this
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book is going to do. And the overarching theme to
me is this Scott, and I've said this multiple times
on the radio. I watched it myself for a long time.
This athletic program went off the cliff because of leadership.
We had the wrong people at the top of the
food chain making poor decisions, who did not have the
(18:08):
backbone to stand up to meddling regions. In this state
we elect the board of Regents. Most states appoint the
board of regents to run their universities. Here we elect them.
It's part of the thing I think the constitution, but
that entitles many of them to meddle in operations and
that's not their job. Their job is to approve a budget,
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monitor the president of the university and stay out of it. Okay,
establish academic guidelines and in some cases policies. But to
get involved in the hiring of coaches, To get involved
in the hiring and the operation of the day to
day workings of the athletic department is an area the
regents and the governor ought not be involved in, and
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yet they've inserted themselves. And when you have that kind
of dysfunction at the top, you will have issues at
the bottom. And that has led to bad athletic director hires,
that has led to bad coach hires, and that has
led to losses on the field.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
But to come out now, as Bill Moose seems to
be doing and saying with twenty twenty hindsight, I thought
Scott Frost was a bad hire. That sounds like total bunk.
That sounds like from the crap river.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Ironically, I don't believe it because I said it myself.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Okay, So, Husker Royalty had just coached Central Florida to
an undefeated season against an FCS schedule, and in this
new series of the Bowl Playoff, they may have been
a legitimate national championship contender. I don't know about that.
So now we get a chance to get this guy back.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I'm not saying it was a bad higher at the time,
but if you look at the metrics that you typically
use to judge the hire of a football coach, he
failed on every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
But at the time political yeah, And I also said this,
the inert pressure from the fans and the political structure
at the university made it impossible to hire anybody else.
But it's also in this book that Frost didn't really
want this job. He didn't want to come back to
Nebraska because he had seen what had happened at the program.
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He was very happy in Orlando, which is something that
he has since testified to. And he was very reluctant
to take the job. But he was talked into it
by friends, talked into it by former coaches, talked into
it by family. But even Scott's better judgment, he deep
inside of him said I don't know if I'm ready
for this gig.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Okay, But he was.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Immature, and he demonstrated that as coach. But Bill had
seen a lot of head coaches, He'd hired a lot
of coaches, he'd fired a lot of coaches. And in
the book he says, I just don't think this guy's ready.
But if I don't hire him, if I don't go
hard for him and hire him, and he goes to
Florida or Tennessee, which was also interested in Scott who
were also interested in Scott Frost. I'm going to lose
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my job, but his wife said, but if he fails,
you're going to lose your job too. So he was
really betwixt in between.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Uh, well, that was Bill. Part of it was Bill
Moose the guy short answer here, please, was Bill Moose
the guy that was going to turn around Nebraska football
in our athletic department. We don't know. We'll never know.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
There is evidence to suggest not, because if you talk
to some athletic department staffers who were there, they will
talk about a manager who was never there, who was absent,
who had surrounded himself by some of his you know,
legions from previous jobs that kept the rank and file
employees away from him. That was his management style. He
was much for an x much more an external athletic
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director than an internal one. Whereas Steve Peterson and Sean
I course were internals, he was more external.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
So it's hard to say al Moose was a lot
better than I coursed. Yeah, and they're all better in Peterson.
So all right, let's again the overarching theme is why
do we keep hiring these people?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Why were the wrong people hired? And it's not their fault.
They took jobs that were offered, it's the people who offered.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Them the job. And again the book is called The
crab Creek Chronicles, the crab Tree Chronicles. Freak, Michael Crabtree.
That's that's what I so in my head, says Traffic
Weather and a news update. Next conversation about an effort
in the Unicamerra to do something on property taxes coming
up at seven thirty five. As Craig just reported, there
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a new bill in Nebraska would say, all right, minimum
wage for teachers is fifty thousand dollars a year. Jim,
you're you're really good at this kind of math. My
property taxes are now being eaten up by what percentage
when it goes to public education? Well about sixty some percent, Okay,
(22:47):
And how's that going. What is the return on that
investment right now? Well, test scores in some corners aren't high,
not high. I also seen stats and this is not
just Nebraska, but just under sixty percent of US adults
now expect to be living high quality lives five years
from now. This is the lowest that has been in
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several decades. So now we've got educators who are providing
an education base for people who are now becoming adults
who have less and less hope in their future, that is,
if they can meet the very watered down low standards
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set by our education system. This is not to say
that there are not good teachers. Good teachers should be
paid their weight in gold, silver, and crypto. There are
not enough good teachers out there. Though there are some
awful teachers. There are some horrible decisions made by administrators
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block scheduling. For example, in Omaha public schools. What is that?
That's where they say, all right, rather than try and
get a teacher in here to really focus unit on
a subject for forty five minutes, we're making this class
an hour and a half. And if you've got a
bad teacher in there for an hour and a half,
you know what ends up happening with those kids during
that class time. They're watching movies, they're playing games on
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their phone, they're wandering around the school. They're not engaged,
and a good teacher can do that. There are a
lot of bad teachers, though, and they're worth their weight
in fecal matter. And I don't know. We're saying, all right,
we're gonna take these same teachers that are in some
instances bad and they're leading kids into despair, watered down
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benchmarks that these kids can't even meet because of these
poor teachers, and let's give them more money and expect
better results. I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
It's a little backward. But here's the thing, Scott. You know,
everybody's got an excuse. And if you were to go
to the largest teacher's administration and say how much to
deliver results? How much? Give us a number trillion? Is
it one hundred trillion, is it two hundred trillion the
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per student? Tell us how much you need to deliver results,
You'll never get a number no, because that means, oh, okay,
now you have to get the job done. We're giving
you the money you say you need to get the
job done. It's not getting done. Somebody has to pay
for that. But you'll never get a number. If you
were to go to the Omaha Public Schools Board of Education,
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say give us a per student number to get truancy
to zero, to get reading efficiencies to grade level, to
get you know, ninety five percent graduation rates. Give us
a number there, you'll never get it.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The per student cost when our parents and grandparents were
in school was next to nothing. Those people were geniuses
compared to what we are seeing today, and the per
student costs in some school districts is upwards of fourteen fifteen,
sixteen thousand dollars a really balloon during COVID. I'm not
exactly sure if it's gone back down, but we're not
seeing those results now. The good teachers pay them a
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million dollars. Yeah, pleasure to welcome on to the program
here someone who is trying to do something that the
voters say all the time we need someone in Lincoln
to do, and that is something about property taxes. The estate.
Senator Bob Anderson right here in Omahan, joins us now
on news radio eleven ten kfab. Senator tell us how
you're going to make all of our property tax dreams
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come true.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Thank you morning, Thank you very much for having me on.
What I will be introducing on Thursday in the Revenue
Committee is a constitutional amendment. And our reason is a
constitutional amendment advice of bill is because the valuation process
is articulated in the brass and constitutions, so you can't
change evaluation process without amendments to the constitution. The over
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guiding principles for this is one stomptability, stop taxing people
out of their homes. The second is providing tax obligation
or our property tax stability, and then predictability for everybody.
There's really two sizes of the equation. One is the
establishing a baseline valuation for a property. Now this applies
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to ranches, farmers, businesses, and residents, but other season a
home as an example. So whatever somebody would buy a
house for establishes a baseline valuation that doesn't change until
they actually would sell the home or whatever they whatever
their first assessment is whenever they build a home or
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they're already in the home, and then we'll use what
the twenty twenty six assessed level is. So established the
baseline valuation that doesn't change, and then the only thing
that changes is the actual levee and that'll be capped
at the CPI at the rate of inflation, and that's
what's going to provide the stability. So when I talked
to all the constituents in my district when the stocking doors,
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you know, everybody wanted to know why our evaluation is
going up, and why is the levee going up? Why
my tax is going up? And they didn't understand why,
and they didn't understand how much. Couldn't plan for the
future or anything else. And that's really the underline principle
of this is to really provide predictability and stability of
what people have to pay in property Texas every year
so they can actually develop a plan and adhere to
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a budget.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
California have voted for something called Proposition thirteen, and I
know you've heard the accusation that your plan is like
that one, which didn't go over very well for Californians
who were buying homes. There worked out better for long
term home and property owners, but for people buying a
home because under your proposal, the taxable value would not
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change till the property is sold. Suddenly, it makes homes
more expensive and that's already a problem we have here
in Nebraska and throughout the country.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Yeah, so the comparison to a Prop. Thirteen is kind
of faulty logic. So there are some principles that are
the same, such as having a baseline valuation doesn't change
until the house is sold. However, what California did was
they had some artificialities. For example, as somebody buys a
house for two hundred thousand dollars and then they sell
it ten years later and buy a house for half
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of the million, they could take that two hundred thousand
dollars valuation and move it to the new house. And
that's what caused the extreme problem. The same thing if
they sold to their family, their family would maintain their
same baseline valuation. So what it did was just extended
over decades and that's what causes stagnation and the problems
with the real estate market. And even I have a
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good friend that lived out there, lived through it, and
he said they would be having you know, car washes
and brownie sales in order by football gear for their
high school team. It was a significantly bad My constus
amnent has none of that in it.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Jim Senator, thanks for coming on, Thanks for actually trying
to do something here, because people are getting killed. You
have thirty one percent increases in Douglas County, thirty five
percent increases in some areas. How about this pass a
law dial back valuations to the year twenty ten three
percent a year, no levy increases without a sixty five
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percent voter turnout.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Well, that is one option with my test two some amendment.
I'm trying to keep it simple and very much understandable,
and that's why you freeze evaluation. And then the way
of inflation. Everybody understands that inflation happens, and that's just
the additional cost of goods and services every year. It
is quite understandable, so they would understand why their taxes
are going up and make sure that it predictable for
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them as well.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, but they don't see performance in schools. They see
test scores failing, They see kids that can't read at
three or four grade levels below their age. So the
return on investment right now is a tough sell for
public schools. So let's just go back to revenue. There's
not a revenue problem in Nebraska, Senator Anderson, we exempt
(30:43):
six billion in sales in this community. There are very
few states that exempt the number of sales taxes that
Nebraska does.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
If we can double team here and get a last
response from you here, Senator. In addition to that, we
have a spending problem. And if we try and take
money from the property to away from the counties that
collect the property taxes, they're just going to jack up
the levy or they're going to raise our rate somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Yeah, I could agree with you more. We certainly have
a spending problem in this state. What my competition amendment
does is really is the foundation of it. We have
a lot more taxi form than needs to happen. I
agree with you with the performance in the school as
we spend over five and a half billion dollars a
year on K through twelve education, we've got to adopt
a better system than we have right now. But there's
(31:28):
plenty of different taxi forms that need to be implemented
in addition to this constitutional movement.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Well, they you said you're introducing this with the Revenue
Committee this week. There will be a long road ahead.
Many people have thrown up their hands and said there
ne would be anything meaningful done on this front. If
you're able to get it done, maybe we can get
a county bridge named in your honor. Okay, at least
name something, Matt. Yeah, thanks for working on this and
we'll talk more as the process goes along. Okay, thank
(31:57):
you very much for having me, Almaha State Senator Bob Anders.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
And right, somebody's OX needs to get gord for there
to be changed, and nobody is willing to sacrifice their
own OX, and nobody is willing to risk losing an election.
And until we get past this, Scott, we are not
going to get structural, sustainable change. I don't somebody has
to be willing to have the teachers union, or the
(32:21):
League of Municipalities or a collection of city council people
and county board members and mayors say I'm going to
work against you in the next election because you're you're
gore in my OX here.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
I don't know how to gore an OX. I don't
even call it. I am the namesake of the email
address Scott at kfab dot com in the Zonker's custom
What's Inbox? Scott borhees here with you on news radio
eleven ten. Kfab I mentioned earlier this push by the
legislature to make a baseline fifty thousand dollars a year
(32:54):
minimum wage for teachers in the state of Nebraska is
I It's one of those things where you can possibly
argue against it, right unless you're a jerk like me
and say, yeah, great, teachers should be paid twice that amount.
There are a lot of bad teachers who don't deserve it,
and we need to weed them out. Jay Emails says,
(33:17):
after thirty two years of teaching, I've watched teachers go
from caring and helpful to looking at their phones and
doing everything online. It's not the money, not for most,
It's it's about support. Administrators and boards do not support
the teacher. They support the parent, and therefore the student
kids run the schools. No discipline is allowed. Please don't
(33:39):
use my last name. I know your teachers, and I'm
telling you I understand why teachers. We don't read anyone's
last names in an email address, and we never do that.
But we understand why teachers are like, don't identify with school.
I get all that, But as long as the good teachers,
like someone who may or may not be named Jay,
(34:00):
never push back, never say anything, then this continues. Now
We've also got the other side of this, because I
said block scheduling is awful. Colleen says, block scheduling helped
my children because the teachers don't just talk the whole time.
It gives them time to spend individual time, working one
on one with students, so these students are not overwhelmed
(34:22):
by too many classes at once. It helps the ADHD students.
I've had two of them. Broadcasting is full of them
who said that, oh, yeah, it was this email I
was reading. Look, I certainly don't want to sound like
I'm coming at Colleen or her kids. Not every student
(34:45):
needs individualized care during a classroom period. It used to
be that you would have that kind of thing after school,
and you would work with a student and their family
to make sure that the students weren't just being left
behind in class and if fantastic teachers are really great
at that. Too often now we get bad teachers who
(35:06):
are not providing that individualized care with the students who
need it. Instead, they're just saying, all right, everyone, you
got free time for the next hour, and kids are
watching movies and YouTube videos and doing social media stuff
on their phones, and they ask the kids if anyone
needs any extra help, come up and ask me, and
the kids who need that help won't do it because
(35:26):
you don't want to be that kid that goes up
and admits to the rest of the class. I need
a little help from this teacher, and they might not
get it anyway, because that teacher might not be very good.
Those teachers should be fired, not giving a raise. I
want better teachers. I want all good teachers. I want
kids to learn to read. Lindsey Vaughn breaking her leg
in thirty eight places or whatever, it was a complex
(35:50):
to be a fracture, and she says, I'm good. I
regret nothing. I'm glad. I try to make a comeback
and do the downhill skiing even though I broke a
leg forty one years old. This is presumably the end
of her Olympic career. But she's tough. Good for her.
I love her spirit. But wow, she's got a lot
(36:12):
of stuff I don't have, like the ability to go
out and do something that might cause a leg to snap.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
No, I could see you doing that just walking down
the stairs.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Now, I'm I play basketball in the driveway with my
son and I come down awkwardly and I feel it
in my knees sometimes, and I think, I wonder how
many of these I have left before I just snap
an ackle or my knee gives out or whatever. But
I wouldn't want to give it up either. Good for her.
I mean, I don't know those people out there in
the sidelines going, well, it serves are right. She's too old.
(36:44):
Oh and you, you're twenty four years old, morbidly obese.
You've never considered doing anything athletic in your entire life.
But please feel free to judge Lindsey Vaughn. I just
think it's amazing that she's like, I broke my leg,
big deal. I regret nothing. She's got a lot of guts.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
She's one of the truly great competitors in Olympic recent
Olympic history, and I'm sad that she suffered that serious injury.
But you do wonder how competitive was she going to
be with a torn ACL. She said, I believe I
can still win a medal with a torn ACL, and
maybe she would have.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Well, Downhill skiing's easy. The skis do all the work.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Downhill skiing is easy. Then was the last time you
were on a slope? Well, you're going about one thousand
miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Well, earlier this season, I slid on the ice. Yeah,
that qualified. Just the skis do the work. It's just
gravity at that point. It's just lack of friction and gravity.
What's the big deal. Everyone's acting like I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
We do have a couple of controversies at the Olympics.
So one apparently the medals are falling apart, cheap medals.
(37:53):
This after the Summer Olympics two years ago where the
medals were starting tarnish and corrode, giving them a look
that started to look like lizard skin or crocodile skin.
The battalions and now people are celebrating after winning their medals.
The medals are snapping loose, the clasps are breaking, medals
(38:13):
are falling on the floor breaking. So there's there's saying
we thought there were.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Solid gold, solid silk.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
We had one, and then we had one. Look at
the metal. Started peeling it off and then ate the center.
That was a piece of candy. That was not a
gold medalist, that was something you got for.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Right up there on the metal stand. They were hungry.
They started peeling that gold off and ate.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
It and and then, and then you've got this controversy
the how do I put this? There's an anti doping agency.
They got to make sure that no one's doing anything
like just jacking themselves up with steroids and all that.
We get that, we heard about all that. But as
(38:57):
it turns out, if you are doing ski jumping you
want a bigger suit. It makes no sense to me.
I would think that your your suit, if it's a
little less tight, would actually increase more drag. But they
say that even a two centimeter increase in suit circumference
(39:19):
can reduce drag by four percent increase lift by five percent. Yes,
I guess you've got a little more parachute to you
that could increase lift and add nearly six meters to
a jump. That's the difference between gold medal and going
home with the no broken metals. So how do you
get even just a two centimeter two centimeter increase in
(39:41):
the circumference of your suit? Well tough the suit when
they are fitting you for your suit. The allegation here
is that athletes are stuffing clay in their undergarments to
temporarily alter the measurements which are taken from a three
D scanner. From every part of your body, and if
(40:03):
you've got a part of your body that needs a
little more room, then your entire suit gets a little
bit more room. The allegations include stuffing things in the
undergarments and in some instances, athletes using some sort of
acid injection in a very sensitive area to engorge said area,
(40:24):
and therefore say like, I need a bigger suit, it's
getting a little tight here in the the U in
the undercarriage, and doing so will give you a bit
more suit and add potential six meters to your jump.
This is a male accusation, or it's the Olympics that
(40:45):
could be on the female side too. Is that just
in boxing? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
But can I ask a question real quick?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Oh I want to answer? Yeah? Sure.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
I want to know if there were no rules about this,
would everybody be able to wear the suit that they
wanted to whatever size it was. Why is there a
limit on the suit you wear when if everybody could
wear the suit they wanted, what if I want to
wear snow pants and a giant parkat well? I mean,
(41:18):
why would that be an issue?
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Then it wouldn't be about the athlete, It would be
about the equipment. But that so what these guys are
artificially increasing the size of their equipment to get bigger equipment.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
That's pay site.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Usually.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
You know, in competition you're trying to shrink that area
because there's less mass, But the aerodynamics of skis and
downhill skiing says, hey, no, you know that airflow through
there could gets you a little bit more left.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah, you don't want everybody.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Would be able to buy the suit that they wanted
and whatever size they wanted.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
They'll be out there floating through the air like Batman then.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
But everybody would have the ability to do that if
they wanted.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
This only is a good thing in ski jumping. You
don't want to do this in swimming. That's a rudder.
Dave points out this was just moments ago that the
same place where Lindsey Vaughn wiped out and busted up
her leg just felled. One of her teammates, Gate four
there on the K twelve or whatever they call it
(42:20):
in Milan, has just ended. Teammate Bella Wright's portion of
the American team combined event same place she went sliding
off and down the mountain and no one's seen her.
I'm just seeing if Lucy's paying attention now. She wiped
out and in the same place. Yeah, same place.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Are they gonna build it up with some more snow?
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Yeah? She well, she didn't crash, but she she had
to right herself to avoid veering offline and then missed
the gate. That's the same place where Von had her injuries.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Has anybody checked her suit? I?
Speaker 1 (43:02):
I mean I will, but thank you Craig, No, I
don't think they'd be checking anybody's suit. They said that
this downhill there in Milan is they might as well
be going down Mount Everest on the hard side. You
know that there's just incredibly dangerous. And I just keep
having flashes of the fantastic John Cusack movie Better Op Dead,
(43:26):
where David Ogden, not David Oginstar's Curtis Armstrong's at the
top of the mountain saying go that way really fast.
If something gets in your way, turn best skeen advice ever. Lucy,
you look like you shop in a lot of thrift stores.
Are you upset that one of those in Benson is
(43:46):
going away? And when I say shop in various thrift stores,
I mean dig through the dumpsters in the back to
see if you can find anything that accidentally got thrown away.
I figured that's just kind of what your fashion sin.
It's also thrifty, you know, there's nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
A lot of guys it's hard to find clothes this big.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
A lot of guys think Minnie Pearl was attractive. So what,
I've been shopping in the thrift stores in Benson since
I was a teenager in this town. Oh you haven't, Yes,
I have you raws and people never went that far north, don't.
You don't know? And I've got high school pictures to
prove it. So what, I decided that shopping in thrift
(44:26):
stores was cool long before that song about ah wear
your grandma's clothes.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
So what can you say that you went to the
Puppy Palace and had ice cream and pizza Burghers in Benson?
Or Louis for the the foot Long or the Benson Bakery?
Can you say you went to any of those?
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Well, I mean, Louis will say that it was a
foot long, but I disagree. No, I went to the
Pink Poodle and Crescent. Does that count? No? Okay? The
owner of the Found Vintage Market, they're in Benson, right
on that strip of maple they said, we just got
(45:06):
to call this story from KMTV three. They say, we
got a call from our landlord that said, hey, I'm
selling the building, gotta go, apparently using the same script
that Ron Burgundy used, like you're pregnant. Can't do the news, Ron,
I know it's you. You've got knocked up. Yeah, selling
the building, gotta go, win as soon as possible. So,
like everything is, how do you discount prices on a
(45:30):
place that already has discounted prices?
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Will you just move?
Speaker 1 (45:34):
Well, they're trying, and she says that I sell refurbished
in custom furniture, and we've also gotten you know, clothes
and things like that, and I'm trying to find a
new location. But if you've been in the same spot
for years and they've been there for eight years, property
values haven't gone down in eight years. So now you've
got to she can't sell anything, she's been renting the place.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Well, maybe the person who buys the building will keep
it retail.
Speaker 1 (46:00):
I don't know. Well that's true. I suppose you could
always try and negotiate with the new owner and go, hey,
maybe maybe we need an eighteenth vintage market here in Benson.
They got a lot of them there.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
Yeah. But however, with that idea, when you look at
all of the apartments that are going up across every
single little tiny nook and cranny in Omah, I don't
know who's rent in all these apartments, but when you
look at all the apartments they're building, it's probably it
was probably bought for an apartment complex.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
I'm trying to think exactly which one of the vintage
markets this place is. But anywhere I picture anything there
on Maple and Benson, I can't picture enough room for apartments.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Oh, if there is a building there, there's enough room
for an apartment.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Yeah, you can have a few lofts in there, I suppose.
But cool area. That's a really very cool part of town.
And once they find some parking, I might actually go
down there and do something.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
Well, that's valid it is.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
It is a long Maple Street and Benson. I've seen
a lot of great bands there at the waiting room
had been a part of some really cool Marni's waiting
room Benson Theater. I don't know about that. And when
Emory moved to Omaha, I said, let's go get a
beer after your show, and we were hanging out at
one of the various places to do such things, and
(47:26):
there was a woman walking right down the sidewalk completely topless.
And I know what you're thinking, guys, and the answer
is no. But I was like, welcome to Omaha Emory.
I think he's been back in that same seat ever since.
Never saw her again. She's got to come back here
again sometime. It's seventy degrees in February. Why wouldn't she
(47:47):
be out trying to sun them? So, yeah, that's a
cool spot. You feel bad when suddenly the landlord is
just like, yeah, sound the building and you got to
go like, win, what time is it? Get out? She
said she was just starting to work with Benson High
(48:07):
School and try and give jobs in her market there
to special need students at Benson. Oh man, I know.
So it's you know, this is the kind of place
where you got people in the community doing what's right
for the community. I hope the next owners and whatever
ends up in that space finds a similar good thing
(48:28):
to do with that, And maybe for the remaining businesses there,
whether they're selling vintage goods or pizza, beer or whatever,
but probably not they're selling beer, but maybe they can
reach out to Benson and say, hey, I understand that
there were gonna be some job opportunities. We would love
to hire people, but if.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
They were selling beer, that's a vinted shop. I'd go to.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Well, yeah, I mean, you're not gonna have high school
kids generally selling beer. Maybe some of the older seniors
there could do for yourself. How do you think I
finance college? I meant like a change in a in
a restaurant or bar atmosphere legally selling beer, not like
my older brothers, as a Schlitz twelve pack that I get, Yeah,
(49:13):
and we'll sell it to you.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
Hey, I got a whole refrigerator full of Ham's beer
because you know, we were talking about Hams the other
day and somebody dropped off a case and I'm plowing
through that.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
Yeah, and you are plowed. The Governor Pillen says, Turning
Point USA will have a chapter in every Nebraska high school.
Do they have to What happens if they don't? What
happens if no students want to be a part of
Turning Point ussa's chapter because they're afraid of getting beat
up by their fellow students and faculty members for having
(49:44):
This is, after all, the organization that many of us
first learned about when that girl at University of Nebraska
Lincoln was just sitting there in you know, on a sidewalk.
I guess they were amongst other organizations that were putting
out tables saying do you want to join the robot club?
Do you want to join the glee club? Do you
(50:05):
want to join the football team? You know, they had
the tables out there for anyone where they needed warm
bodies for something. And she was out there with a
display for Turning Point USA and had two faculty members
from the English department harassing and threatening her. And then
you saw what happened in Fremont the other day where
(50:26):
the guy with the Trump flag probably was looking to
get into it with the students who were out there
protesting ICE, and then they got into it out there.
So if you come out and announced that, yeah, I'm
just kind of interested in what these guys have to say.
You know, it's Charlie Kirk made a lot of sense.
(50:47):
I don't agree with everything he said every single day,
but I'm interested in learning more. Plus there are girls there,
so I thought maybe i'd go to the meeting. You
might be a target for your fellow classmate. Here's a secret.
Here's how to know if your fellow classmates might be
closet conservatives. Do they rant and rave and scream every
(51:12):
day and blame all of their troubles on Donald Trump?
If not, they might be closet conservatives. And as I
was talking earlier, as they're talking about fifty thousand dollars
a year minimum salary for Nebraska teachers, let's see how
many teachers and teachers organizations fight back against just making
(51:34):
as an option the Turning Point USA Chapter to be
in every Nebraska high school. Now as it is, any
student can start a Turning Point USA chapter. You don't
even need to invite Kid Rock to your school. You
can just start one
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