Month: July 2010

Thieves Haul Off At Least 8-Thousand Pounds of Railroad Track – Action 3 News – Omaha, Nebraska News, Weather, and Sports |

Seriously, what are you going to do with 8,000 lbs of train tracks?

The metal recyclers meant just be own to you after the 1,201st lb.

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Today is Thursday 07/22/V3.1

My name is Vernon J & I would like to personally guarantee that if you have an interaction with me today it will be wonderful.

The rest of your day is going to be wonderful also.

Dear Criminals,

Vernon J has a word of advice for you. If you have escaped from a detention center, don’t just go moseying around town. There’s a 35-85% chance a TV Camera may be in the vicinity.

That is unless you want to go back to the detention center.

Thanks for reading my blog.

1st of All, Cry me a River.

Now let you get over the shock.

When you’ve cut back the expenses, you have to increase revenue.

I’ve heard that it’s an X% increase over the 2010 budget.

But there were cuts last year, so in theory we should be comparing the 2011 budget to the 2009 budget.  That way we can get an accurate increase. You can’t have cuts two years in a row and expect the same quality of service.

You can read the ENTIRE budget online, it’s 504 pages, have fun. http://www.cityofomaha.org/finance/images/stories/Budgets/budget2011recommended/Budget%202011%20recommended.pdf

A 16-year-old Bellevue girl was one of the first people in the state to be ticketed under a new law prohibiting texting while driving.

The teen was ticketed July 15, the first day the state ban went into effect, said Capt. Herb Evers of the Bellevue Police Department.

"After knocking down a street sign, the girl nearly hit another car head on," Evers said. "She could have been seriously hurt or she could have badly injured someone else."

Evers said the teenager was westbound on Nebraska Highway 370 near Wilshire Avenue when she looked down to erase a text. The car she was driving went up on a dividing island and sheared off a traffic sign before coming to a rest back in the road.

A police officer found the phone in the car with a text message on its screen. The teen told the officer she was in the midst of erasing the text before she hit the sign.

The girl faces a $200 fine and the loss of three points on her driver’s license.

http://omaha.com/article/20100720/NEWS97/100729989#first-texting-tickets-issued