Free regional meetings in April and May will be held to review the new Nebraska Community Improvement Program (NCIP) and its Leadership Development Challenge -- including its curriculum and benefits, the application process, and why all community volunteers should boldly step up to the challenge. NCIP is a program of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development. The NCIP Leadership Development Challenge is designed to increase communities' leadership, volunteer and planning capacity.
The meetings nearest to Dorchester will be held April 29, 7-9 p.m. at Hastings, Central Community College; and May 6, 7-9 p.m. at Pawnee City. The registration form can be found online at www.neded.org/content/view/117/243.
Correct me if I am wrong, but haven't some individuals made provisions to leave a portion of their estate to Dorchester through the NCIP?
ReplyDeleteIt is always interesting that whenever this subject comes up that the blog people want everyone to know about it, but then nothing ever happens.
ReplyDeleteThe key is "volunteer". Lets see if there is anyone out there who will give up their time to go see what is going on
I bet not
Talk about a loss of economic development:
ReplyDeleteEvan Williams, founder and chief executive of Twitter, will be at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln April 10 for a series of student events. Williams grew up on a farm outside Clarks and moved to Columbus during his senior year of high school, graduating from Columbus High School in 1990. He was enrolled at UNL through his sophomore year. He returned to Nebraska in 1993 and started his first Internet company in Lincoln in 1994. (Twitter is now headquartered in San Francisco.)
Ha. I laugh at you progressive. Want to compare the outmigration rates of California and Nebraska over the last two or three years. Yes, it is a trend, my friend. California is dying for a reason. By the way, what were Twitters profits over the last year? Remember Google stock at $70. Ha! Ha! Ha! I'll take a manufacturer, mine, energy facility or grain elevator any day.
ReplyDeleteLong live capitalism. Long live limited government. Let California and silicon valley file for bankruptcy.
Back in the 1970s Dorchester participated in NCIP and even won some awards! It seemed that every organization, business interest, resident volunteered in one way or another to strengthen the community. It took creativity and committment. The people who participated were the ones who benefitted the most! Can we (Dor-chester) do it again? We have new energy, new businesses, new ideas. Do we have new leaders?
ReplyDeleteGood grief! 90s grad speaks as if he/she is 90 years old. That's the type of attitude that keeps NE from moving forward.
ReplyDeleteJust keep the labor coming from California....
ReplyDelete...and tell them to leave their union cards at home. Nebraska is a right to work state!
90s grad:
ReplyDeleteAre you not talking out of both sides of your mouth? The grain that is handled by the elevator is heavily subsidized by the government along with some energy facilities. Manufacturing continues to move overseas and there isn’t a lot of mining done in NE. NE is also suffering from outmigration as a Creighton study revealed that 1 out of 2 college graduates leave the state. As for unions, most high tech workers are not unionized. In regards to Twitter, someone must like the idea.
“Google Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Twitter (TechCrunch)”
Google is rumored to be in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. They can be assumed to be well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding. Twitter turned down an offer to be bought by Facebook just a few months ago for half a billion dollars.
Look, Skeptic/Progressive/Socialist ... whatever name you're going by this hour...
ReplyDeleteI'm not defending ag subsidies, but they are a drop in the bucket compared to the unemployment insurance and welfare that businesses and other working taxpayers are providing for the out-of-work union members across the country who picketed their way out of a job and the service sector goons who can't do more than pick their noses behind a computer screen. We killed our own manufacturing base by worshipping at the altar of the service the "information economy," whatever that is. (For the record Nebraska is home to one of the world's largest uranium mines, which employs a very large number of Panhandle residents. Yes, the radical enviros are trying to shut that down too.)
Ask your local newspaper how profitable they are in these days of the new information age. Maybe its justice served in the left-leaning newsrooms. Afterall the so-called "progressives" (enviros, anti-ag, anti-production, pro-union) who are kiling this country and it's economy.
As for your Twitter, if you really believe in the capitalist way, put your mounth where your money is. You invest in Twitter and Google stock and I'll put my money in mining, energy and ag stock. Get back to me in three months and see who's ahead.
"Don't ever argue with a fool, because someone walking by and observing you can't tell which one is the fool."
ReplyDeleteWilma Mankiller, first woman to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
From www.fool.com:
ReplyDeleteAlways remember that price is what you pay and value is what you get. A fantastic business like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is undervalued at one price, fairly valued at another, and overvalued at yet another. Two years ago, investors in Google were sacrificing a margin of safety and betting on the continuance of very high growth rates, which we know simply cannot go on forever. Now, though, the stock may be more of a bargain at roughly half its late-2007 price.
I have registered to attend the April 29th meeting in Hastings.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone else would like to attend and share a ride please respond.