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1 week ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen hosts his monthly radio call-in show on Monday from Lincoln. It runs from 2 to 3 and you can hear it on News Talk WJAG, 780 AM, 105.9 FM, WJAG.com and the Norfolk NE Radio app. To ask the governor a question, call 800-799-7696.
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2 weeks ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
Yakov Smirnoff moved to the United States from the former Soviet Union with his family in 1977 and eventually became one of the nation’s top comedians, appearing on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson seven times. But when the Soviet Union fell in the early 90s, Smirnoff told News Talk WJAG, the calls stopped coming. Thirty-two years ago, he moved to Branson, Mo.. calling it an emergency landing. "I was living the American Dream and all of a sudden it was a nightmare," Smirnoff said. "Nothing.
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2 weeks ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
Comedian Yakov Smirnoff left the former Soviet Union in 1977 and, along with his parents, made his way to America. Smirnoff told News Talk WJAG, he began his career in the Soviet Union, but that comedy was a much different game under communism. "We had a 'Department of Jokes' that had to censor your material and you kind of had to stay with the script for a whole year. So, it was a totally different scene," Smirnoff said.
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2 weeks ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
On Friday, Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) helped to introduce the bipartisan Weather Workforce Improvement Act. The bill is designed to reinforce the public safety mission of the National Weather Service.
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2 weeks ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
Nebraska U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer co-sponsored the Foreign Adversary Communications Transparency – or FACT – Act. The legislation would require the Federal Communications Commission to publicly identify entities that hold FCC licenses, authorizations or other grants of authority that are owned wholly or partially by foreign, adversarial governments.
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2 weeks ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
Besides representing Nebraska in the U.S. Senate, Deb Fischer is also a central-Nebraska rancher, and promotes mental-health awareness in agriculture. Fischer told News Talk WJAG, it’s getting to be a bigger issue every day. She used as an example, suicide rates for farmers, which can be two to five times greater than the national average. "Ag is a tough industry," Fischer said.
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2 weeks ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) has introduced bipartisan legislation to designate certain employees of the National Weather Service as “public safety.”During a news conference last week, a reporter asked Flood why that was important, to which Flood replied the weather in Nebraska often generates life-and-death scenarios. "It it's not a tornado, it's a wildfire. It it's not a wildfire, it's a blizzard," Flood said.
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2 weeks ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
National Weather Service locations in the central plains that normally release two weather balloons a day, are back at that pace after receiving support from Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.). During a news conference last week, Flood said, in March, he heard about weather balloons not being released as normal. He then reached out to the National Weather Service office in Valley and found out about critical staffing challenges.
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2 weeks ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
Nebraska U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer said the Senate is working hard on the reconciliation process, and told News Talk WJAG, one of her top priorities is to extend the Trump tax cuts of 2017, which are set to expire at the end of the year. "And if they expire, we're going to see everybody's taxes go up," Fischer said. "The average family of four, where they make about $80,000 a year, they're going to see probably a $1,700 tax increase.
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3 weeks ago | 
norfolkneradio.com | Paul Hughes
On Wednesday, Gov. Jim Pillen signed LB 89, the Stand With Women Act into law during a ceremony at the State Capitol. Among those in attendance was Riley Gaines, the former University of Kentucky swimmer who became an advocate against men in women’s sports, following the 2022 NCAA championships when she and her fellow competitors were forced to compete against a biological man, Leah Thomas. Gaines said she didn’t want the notoriety for herself.
