Andrew Wegley
State Government Reporter at Lincoln Journal Star
Writing about Nebraska politics and government, @JournalStarNews | Alum, @TheMissourian | Kansas City native | Big fan of public records and the Royals
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journalstar.com | Andrew Wegley
National faces in the fight against the participation of transgender women in women's sports joined University of Nebraska athletes and Republican politicians Wednesday in Lincoln as Gov. Jim Pillen signed into law a bill banning trans student athletes from playing sports on teams that don't align with their sex at birth.
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kearneyhub.com | Andrew Wegley
Nebraska lawmakers adjourned for the year Monday broadly pleased — if not quite delighted — after nearly five months of work in which they remedied the state's budget shortfall and passed a slew of conservative policy changes while again failing to reform the state's tax structure that has grown increasingly burdensome on property owners. In interviews and speeches Monday afternoon at the Capitol, Republican Gov.
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fremonttribune.com | Andrew Wegley
Nebraska lawmakers adjourned for the year Monday broadly pleased — if not quite delighted — after nearly five months of work in which they remedied the state's budget shortfall and passed a slew of conservative policy changes while again failing to reform the state's tax structure that has grown increasingly burdensome on property owners. In interviews and speeches Monday afternoon at the Capitol, Republican Gov.
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journalstar.com | Andrew Wegley |Chris Dunker
Nebraska lawmakers adjourned for the year Monday broadly pleased — if not quite delighted — after nearly five months of work in which they remedied the state's budget shortfall and passed a slew of conservative policy changes while again failing to reform the state's tax structure that has grown increasingly burdensome on property owners. In interviews and speeches Monday afternoon at the Capitol, Republican Gov.
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journalstar.com | Andrew Wegley
A Lancaster County judge this month dismissed a defamation lawsuit one former Lincoln radio host filed against another last year after the two men settled the matter out of court. Jack Riggins, the conservative former talk radio host who anchored KLIN's 5 p.m. show for two years, asked District Court Judge Andrew Jacobsen to dismiss the lawsuit he filed against his successor at the Lincoln station in May 2024.
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#Nebraska GOP Rep. Don Bacon to the New York Times: "I’d like to fight for the soul of our party. I don’t want to be the guy who follows the flute player off the cliff. I think that’s what’s going on right now." https://t.co/0SFr5VEoq8
Even after Nebraska's attorney general's latest effort to outlaw most THC products stalled in the #neleg last month, shop owners have little hope their industry will survive the AG's crusade. "I think, in the long-term, eventually, we're gonna lose." https://t.co/5FLECQ8fey
RT @asanderford: START YOUR FRIDAY: With a story behind the story of a recent change at the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission. From @Zach…
