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LINCOLN--A bill that would ban advertising of plant-based, insect-based or lab-based food as “meat” was discussed by the Agriculture Committee in a two-hour long hearing Feb. 19 that included a disagreement between two senators. LB 594, presented by committee member Sen. Carol Blood of Bellevue, had its origins in LB 14, which was presented by Blood earlier this session and withdrawn last month. The new bill would act as an amendment to the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act. “There are now additional consumers that will be protected and t...
LINCOLN--Society is going through a massive digital revolution, which has brought its upsides and downsides, but is starting to divide it as well, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse told the crowd during a panel discussion Feb. 11. “I think what’s happening now is we’re hollowing out traditional tribes, tribes in place, and we’re trying to replace them with tribes of ideology that are probably not going to satisfy people,” he said. “Republicans and Democrats, they’re crappy tribes.” Sasse and three students from the University of Nebraska-Lincol...
