Dorchester Times: FLASHBACK: On Day One, Biden Kills Jobs In Saline County Area

Sunday, June 12, 2022

FLASHBACK: On Day One, Biden Kills Jobs In Saline County Area

The following news article was published by this blog Jan. 22, 2021 -- less than 18 months ago. As the U.S. average price for gasoline exceeds $5, and diesel has eclipsed $6, we are republishing this editorial. It's a a reminder Joe Biden and the New Green Deal activists who pull the puppet strings -- like Jane Kleeb, leader of the Nebraska Democrat Party -- kicked off this energy-driven economic spiral. (A few days later, Fox Business reported from main street Dorchester.)

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This aerial photo, published by the AP and Omaha World-Herald, shows thousands of sections of pipes located just east of Dorchester -- pipes that were to be used for the already-started Keystone XL pipeline. They represent billions of dollars of private-sector investment, thousands of well-paying U.S. jobs, and America's recently achieved energy independence.

But construction on the Keystone XL oil pipeline has been halted as incoming U.S. President Joe Biden this week revoked the pipeline's permit.

The move is not only being criticized as unfair and possibly illegal, it's also expected to have significant and negative consequences for Saline County's area economy.

More than 1,000 jobs, the majority unionized, will be eliminated in the coming weeks as ongoing construction is shut down.

One county official we emailed said Saline County "will definitely feel a hit."

In the Dorchester area, economic losses will include lost construction jobs, along with a dramatic reduction in use of local services and businesses -- including restaurants, hotels, and retailers.

Property owners will also take a hit without the existence of a second Keystone pipeline. (See our analysis that showed the property tax relief delivered by the original Keystone pipeline.)

The 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline was supposed to carry roughly 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.

Marty Durbin, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute, said Biden’s decision is not grounded in science and will put thousands of Americans out of work,

“The pipeline — the most studied infrastructure project in American history — is already under construction and has cleared countless legal and environmental hurdles,” Durbin said in a statement. “This is a politically motivated decision that is not grounded in science. It will harm consumers and put thousands of Americans in the building trades out of work.”

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11 comments:

Terry G.January 22, 2021 at 9:45 PM
81M m.....he's your president!
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AnonymousJanuary 23, 2021 at 2:30 PM
It's just the beginning of the end.
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AnonymousJanuary 23, 2021 at 8:07 PM
Biden's America
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AnonymousJanuary 23, 2021 at 8:08 PM
Kommie Harris' America
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AnonymousJanuary 23, 2021 at 10:37 PM
So what happens when all those racist white men walk off the job from producing food, working skilled trades, making things, protecting cities as cops, and serving in the combat arms section of the military? Asking for a friend.
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AnonymousJanuary 23, 2021 at 11:51 PM
Suck it up you bunch of whiners. Trump lost and hopefully will be jailed for a long time. Fact is that Biden is president now and Harris will probably be after the 2024 election when everyone realizes that they are making America great. At least with the pipeline not going in our ground water will be preserved. Instead of complaining about the lost jobs and revenue figure out a way to attract something else.
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AnonymousJanuary 24, 2021 at 12:22 PM
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10217389694925428&set=a.3401081836916
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AnonymousJanuary 28, 2021 at 11:57 PM
DOZENS of pipelines?? Name 2 dozens of them within a 25 mile radius of town. For you whiners that do not know what a radius is, it is 1/2 the diameter if a circle. Start naming.
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."