This week on Corn Nation Overreaction, Greg and Hoss are revisiting the September 30, 2023 loss to eventual national champion Michigan.
Hoss calls Greg out on his Kool-Aid consumption as he explains passing on the opportunity to attend this game, sit in the 93-degree heat, and watch the Huskers get their brains bashed in 45-7.
Joshua Fleeks provides Nebraska’s only score late in the contest as JJ McCarthy and Blake Corum have a field day at Memorial Stadium. And the guys compare the 2023 loss to the 2021 loss, which Hoss describes as “the best offensive game plan of the Scott Frost era.”
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Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska on the Senate floor.Courtesy: Office of Sen. Deb Fischer
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously passed the Winnebago Land Transfer Act.
The bill would transfer 1,600 acres of land that were seized in the 1970s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was wrong to seize this land through eminent domain in the 1970s,” Sen. Deb Fischer, who sponsored the bill, said in a press release. “It’s time to make this right and finally return this land to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. I want to thank my colleagues for their unanimous, bipartisan support, and I look forward to seeing this bill signed into law.”
The bill now heads to the president’s desk.
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“The Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to condemn and seize land from the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska was a classic case of government overreach,” said Sen. Pete Ricketts, a co-sponsor of the bill. “I’m grateful the Senate passed our bill to correct this wrong and ensure the land is returned to the Winnebago people. I urge President Biden to sign it.”
An 1865 treaty established the Winnebago Reservation in northeast Nebraska along the Missouri River.
Due to shifts in the river, part of the reservation is now in Iowa.
In 1970, the Corps of Engineers condemned land on both the Nebraska and Iowa side of the river for a proposed recreation project.
The corps used eminent domain to acquire the land.
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The Nebraska land was ultimately returned to the tribe, but the Iowa land remains under the corps’ jurisdiction.
But the corps has no objection to turning over control of the land, the press release said.
“This is a truly historic moment for the Winnebago Tribe as lands that were taken from us over 50 years ago will soon be restored to the Tribe,” Chairwoman Victoria Kitchevan said in the release. “Our ancestors, including the late Louis LaRose, fought tirelessly to secure and protect our homelands. The Tribal Council is honored to carry on their work and help send this bill to the President in their honor.”
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Nebraska recently became one of the stops for the nationally based Feeding and Fueling the World workshop series.
Sponsored locally by the Nebraska Corn Board and the Nebraska Soybean Board, the workshop was designed for science teachers by science teachers to learn curriculum emphasizing modern agriculture that they can take back to their classrooms.
“We know that a lot of our students are not going to be directly working in production agriculture…” said Stacie Turnbull, secretary of agriculture education, “but they’re going to be heavily involved in the outside aspects providing the financial side of agriculture, the precision ag, food processing… as we continue to provide for this growing population.”
Science content with a focus on agriculture covers topics like biotechnology, soil health, renewable energy like biofuels, and other subjects to help advocate for the role American agriculture plays in feeding the growing world.
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The Feeding and Fueling the World series is facilitated nationally by the Nourish the Future education initiative and will make stops in North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Iowa throughout the rest of the month of June.
For more information visit https://nourishthefuture.org/events.
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A 72-year-old Missouri man has died, and his wife was critically injured after being stabbed during an attempted robbery at an Interstate 80 rest stop in Nebraska, police say.
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James Thompson Jr., 22, of Elyria, Ohio, is now being held on numerous charges, including first-degree murder, following the incident that unfolded in Doniphan on Wednesday morning.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Department says around 7 a.m., deputies responded to a disturbance call at 4148 I-80 and found two victims who had “suffered wounds from an assault with a knife.”
“One victim, a 72-year-old male from Eureka, Missouri, suffered fatal injuries from the assault and was pronounced dead at Grand Island Regional Hospital,” the department added, identifying him as Gary Weaver.
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Suspect James Thompson Jr. was taken into custody following a police chase.(Hall County Department of Corrections)
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His 71-year-old wife, Mary Weaver, is reported to have suffered “life-threatening injuries” and, as of Wednesday night, remains in critical condition at the same hospital.
“At this time, it is believed this started as an attempted robbery,” the Hall County Sheriff’s Department said, noting that “the couple had been traveling through Nebraska in their mobile home when the incident occurred.”
The suspect fled the rest area in a vehicle before authorities arrived, but Grand Island Police Captain Dean Elliott told television station KSNB that officers were able to get a description.
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The rest stop in Doniphan, Nebraska, where the double stabbing occurred around 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to the Hall County Sheriff’s Department.(Google Maps)
The Nebraska State Patrol tried to stop a vehicle matching that description near Wood River and chased it at speeds of up to 120 mph before that vehicle exited the interstate and turned south, according to The Associated Press.
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Elliott said the vehicle eventually drove into the Platte River. State troopers used a police dog to find Thompson and arrest him about 30 minutes later.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Department says investigators believe the stabbing happened during an attempted robbery of the Missouri couple.(Hall County Sheriff’s Department)
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Jail records show Thompson is facing charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder, robbery, use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony and willful reckless driving.
