Advice to the Legislature
"Get government off our backs" has been a rallying cry of the 1980s, but fifty years ago therewere similar calls to reduce the number of laws on the books. A 1931 ...
Nebraska Legislature
What We Found
An Unmerited Request
Nebraska state agencies recently submitted their budget requests for the 1991-93 fiscal year.Time will tell how these requests will be received by the Legislature and ...
Banking in Nebraska Territory
Nebraska delegate Henry W. Yates addressed the World's Congress of Bankers and Financiers in June of 1894 in Chicago on Nebraska's experience with wildcat banks during ...
Butler’s Compensation Claim
David Butler, Nebraska's first state governor, was one of the most controversial figures ever to hold the office. Faced with the problems of transition from a ...
Casting the Ballot
Nebraskans at the polls this November will mark standardized printed ballots. But this precise regularity of ballots has not always been the case. In Nebraska's early ...
Spitting Prohibited!
Spittoons are visible on the floor in this circa-1910 photo by John Nelson of Ericson. RG3542-95-20
By Patricia C. Gaster
This article was first ...
Lovers and Guinea Pigs in the Old State Capitol
When the third and present capitol was built, the second was temporarily left in place and the new one, completed in 1932, was begun around it. ...
Buffalo Bill in the Nebraska Legislature
Buffalo Bill at age thirty-five. (RG3004-12)
Many of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody's exploits as a buffalo hunter, scout, and showman have been publicized in works ...
Mabel Gillespie: First Re-elected Woman in Legislature
By Breanna Fanta, Editorial Assistant
Mabel Gillespie was one of the first women elected to the Nebraska legislature, and the first to be re-elected, ...
Nebraska’s 1921 Alien Land Law targeted Japanese immigrants
In 1921 the state legislature passed a law barring noncitizens from owning rural land or leasing it longer than five years. Because Japanese immigrants ...
Helen Keller Shocked at Nebraska’s Poor Financial Assistance for the Blind
It’s 1947, and the Nebraska legislature has not passed funding for educating and rehabilitating people with vision loss for twenty-five years. Who are ...
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