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LOCAL Thief cuts through smoke shop roof A burglar apparently cut through the roof of a Lincoln smoke shop early Sunday. Police estimate the damage at Island Smokes, 1075 N. 33rd at about $2,000. The burglar took about $600 worth of items from the shop, including eight to 10 cartons of Newport cigarettes, a glass incense burner and a jar of change. It appears the man was able to make a hole in the roof near a ventila- tion duct, then cut a 2-by-2-foot hole in the drywall ceiling to get inside the shop, Lincoln Police Capt.

Michon Morrow said. Man attacked with knife at tailgate A man was cut with a knife Saturday night at a tailgate behind the Journal Star production building at Ninth and streets. After seeing his girlfriend talking to another man, a 28-year-old got jeal- ous and walked over to confront his girlfriend, Lincoln Police Capt. David Beggs said. The 28-year-old told police that en route, another man stopped him, asked him what his problem was, then cut him about 10:54 p.m.

He suffered a 3 cut to his forearm, Beggs said. He found a cop working on Street. Police nd the man who cut him. From staff reports THE BLOTTER Despite the grueling pace of a marathon campaign that began more than a year ago, both candidates appeared fresh and cheerful during sit- down interviews last week. Hassebrook entered the race 16 months ago, but was able to sail to the Demo- cratic nomination without a primary contest; Ricketts jumped into the fray a year ago and had to ght his way through a highly-compet- itive Republican primary crowd, edging Jon Bruning by a razor-thin margin in May.

One of these two men will be governor in Janu- ary, the rst new governor in Nebraska in 10 years. Not the familiar gure Dave Heine- man is or that Mike Johanns was when he was re-elected 12 years ago. Both Ricketts and Hasse- brook sat down last week for revealing interviews about what their governorships would look like. It was a rare opportunity to explore their ideas and plans without tak- ing a shot at one other. meet in an hour- long debate in Lincoln on Thursday that will be tele- vised statewide by NET, be- ginning at 7 p.m.

This worth watching. No Yankee game that night. Last Omaha congressional debate be- tween Lee Terry and Brad Ashford was both interesting and civil. More agreement than ex- pected, including statement that he would have voted against passage of the Affordable Care Act, or ObamaCare, because it lacked bipartisan support. The problem, Ashford said, is that Congress has failed to fix the problems with the health care act because of its deadly partisan divide.

where the Demo- cratic challenger appears to be directing his message: work in a bipartisan way in the House to deal with is- sues and fix problems. Terry argued that many of the dozens of House Republican votes to repeal Obamacare actually were di- rected at fixing the law. And he contended that, in fact, he has worked in coop- eration with his Democratic colleagues. Last debate was more sparring than knockout punch. fight another round on Oct.

16. In the end, that election may come down more to a referendum on Lee Terry than a dramatic clash of views on all kinds of issues. So much positive energy in the big stadium this year. Good vibes, almost cel- ebratory on a Saturday night when most of the crowd was driving or walking home at midnight. Last year was weighted down by negatives, including the season-long uncertainty hanging over the future of Bo Pelini.

And I would argue that those bad vibes had an impact on the loss to Iowa in the final home game. a sense now that this could be the break- through year, even though a long way from know- ing that. A big part of the answer could come on Saturday night in East Lansing, although the season be settled there. Ameer, Kenny Bell, proba- bly Randy Gregory gone after this season. This is a big year.

Finishing up Wow, a month between Husker home games. Yet to be answered: Will the minimum wage initia- tive have an impact on voter registration and turnout sufficient to determine the outcome of any key election races? Here comes most spectacular month when its autumn landscape turns red and yellow and golden beneath our big blue and billowy sky. Reach the writer at 402-473-7248 or On Twitter come along and change it. And what happened: When times were tough, that fund- ing got Hassebrook said he would work to lower property taxes, but prefer that most of the benefits go to owner-oc- cupied farms and landowners who actually live in Nebraska. He pointed to CNN founder Ted Turner, who owns large swaths of land in the Nebraska Sandhills and millions of acres throughout the western Unit- ed States.

Turner need property tax relief as badly as small family farms and low- income Hassebrook said. Hassebrook said property taxes have increased in part because of state spending cuts that shifted expenses to cities and counties. To reduce some of the cost, Hassebrook said he would he would support re- imbursing counties that house state prisoners in their jails. Hassebrook said he would work to attract new wind farms, noting a 200-turbine wind farm would generate about $25 million in taxes over 20 years, and that money could offset current property taxes. Hassebrook said he also would push to collect sales taxes that paid by Inter- net retailers.

The state could put that revenue toward prop- erty tax reductions and local government services, while the playing for Nebraska-based companies that pay sales taxes, he said. Both candidates said they would support lowering the percentage of farmland that can be taxed from 75 percent of market value to 65 percent, but lawmakers in recent years have rejected the idea. They split on whether to use cash reserves for property tax reductions, with Rick- etts endorsing the idea and Hassebrook saying not sustainable. Farm and ranching groups plan to pursue property tax reform again in 2015, but major changes could take years, said Nebraska Farm Bureau presi- dent Steve Nelson. a scale of 1 to 10, some of our members think a Nelson said.

not just how high the property taxes are. the imbalance of who Nelson, whose group en- dorsed Ricketts, said many members want the taxable value of farmland lowered and money put into the state prop- tax credit fund. Larry Dix, executive director of the Nebraska Association of County Officials, said Nebras- ka lawmakers and governors have wrestled with the issue for decades. one thing to take a look at he said. a little more difficult to solve Walton Continued from B1 Taxes Continued from B1 and enslaved by ISIS, also known as ISIL or the Islamic State group.

Lincoln is home to more than 1,000 Yazidis, a group of Kurdish-speaking people who live largely in northern Iraq. Yazidi com- munity is the larg- est, and on Sunday some of them, along with other Lincoln residents of vari- ous faiths, tried to send out a message of peace to the world. They urged every- one to look at humans as people, not as their faith or skin color. Doug Hardt of the Union College Center for Interfaith Studies and Culture con- ceived of the remembrance ceremony after traveling to Iraq this summer. After see- ing one million people with- out homes and after talking with people who had gone through hell, he said, he wanted to do something to remember those who had died.

I see people on the news that are getting shot, I see them as people I know, people I see on a daily Hardt said. cease to just be numbers to The ceremony featured speeches from Khoudeida and Hardt, as well as a per- formance from the Union College Octet. Nizar Zhaiya, an Iraqi native and Lincoln resident, spoke about what ISIS represents and how he, as a practicing Muslim, get why ISIS is able to affiliate with people like him. ISIS represents does not go with what I be- lieve as a Zhaiya said. By the end of the cere- mony, the only illumination was from street lamps over the campus sidewalk.

As the group of 300 or so reflected during a moment of silence, phones lit the poem on the back of a program: there be peace on earth, and let it begin with Reach the writer at 402-473-7223 or Yazidis Continued from B1 RAPID CITY, S.D. Sixteen tribes from South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska want the federal government to turn over to tribal care the three parcels of land where an American Indian boarding school sat in the late 1800s. Tribal members peti- tioned the government to release the roughly 165 acres of land to federal tribal trust. The parcels are considered spiritual land guaranteed to the Sioux Nation under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. just waiting for the government, and as you know, that takes said Gay Kingman, the executive director of the Great Plains Tribal Associa- tion, which also backs the petition.

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