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damonhynes

Or, it could be a cheap market and these so-called 'journalists' can't afford to park their butts here for a couple of decades. How'd you like to have gone to Mississippi State for a six-year 'broadcast meteorology' degree only to find that you're reporting on busted water mains delaying traffic on ...

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Brushfires for Christmas!

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EricHaley wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 2:11 pm
damonhynes wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 4:09 pm
Busguy2010 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:13 pm
I think 72nd over the UP tracks should happen soon. That'll be a real nightmare.
That needs an extra lane from EB I-80 to SB 72nd down to F. Merging is white-knuckle with the current bridge.
There will be an additional lane added between I-80 and L street.

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Busguy2010 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:13 pm
I think 72nd over the UP tracks should happen soon. That'll be a real nightmare.

That needs an extra lane from EB I-80 to SB 72nd down to F. Merging is white-knuckle with the current bridge.

damonhynes

What exactly is the plan for 132nd and Giles anyway? Giles east of the T-intersection was supposed to be moved south on a new bridge crossing the Pap at a shallow angle between the BNSF and the current 132nd bridge. Giles and 132nd would both be straight through at 90 degrees, leaving a hellacious ...

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Does anyone listen to the afternoon radio on KFAB with Emery Songer as host? He has been on for a while now. For years, I have listed at least twice a week to the afternoon guy for a while on those days. At first, I chalked it up to having to get used to the "new guy." Don't think that is...

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I wasn’t going to mention what I saw last night at 10 pm, immediately following NU’s overtime loss in Madison. Channel 6 tried and tried and tried to start their newscast with clips from the just completed football game, teed up by their sportscaster, who stood there and kept waiting for the highli...

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7 has Andrew Ozaki at their Lincoln bureau, which on the face of it seems strange because there's an ABC affiliate (8) in Lincoln. 10/11 is owned by Gray, the same as 6 so they cross-pollinate. KETV is on basic cable in Lincoln. Historically there have been a fair number of people that watched the ...

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Lincoln should be moved out of the Hastings market and put in the Omaha market instead. When I lived in Lincoln and watched the news, it was 95% about things near Hastings. The weather was irrelevant as well. Isn’t that only the case for the nbc outlet though? If Lincoln moves into the Omaha market...

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Caitlin Connell, late of Channel Third, posted on Insta that she got a position at Weathernation in Denver. Good for her!

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And in addition, the time change does NOT in fact, change the amount of daylight! Every spring, my socials are packed with n00b stormchasers who claim that there's an extra hour of daylight, therefore one more hour to chase and another hour of atmospheric warming! That's a good one. I'd hope it was...

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Guess what? We all know that life will go on just as it always has despite the twice yearly adjustment of clocks…half or more of which now automatically adjust themselves. And in addition, the time change does NOT in fact, change the amount of daylight! Every spring, my socials are packed with n00b...

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Presented without comment Air industry consultant thinks Lincoln has something to offer other carriers https://journalstar.com/news/local/business/air-industry-consultant-thinks-lincoln-has-something-to-offer-other-carriers/article_b2eef64c-78e4-11ee-910c-039ad99e4574.html “Man who gets paid to giv...

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Good job of digging, Garrett!

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Brad wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 12:43 pm
damonhynes wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:49 am Ellie's in Green Bay now. Lateral move at best, unless she's a Pack fan.
She was on 1620 before she left, one of her career goals was to cover an NFL team.

That makes sense, thanks!

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Ellie's in Green Bay now. Lateral move at best, unless she's a Pack fan.

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I was with CVS for years because my company insurance is with Aetna and I thought there'd be synergies due to CVS's ownership. I soon tired of the relentless emails/texts that could not be permanently turned off, not to mention their insistence on auto-filling my scrips. My company is changing insur...

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Praying, man. :-(

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thenewguy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 8:07 am the irony of a non-tornado season tornado 'outbreak' is nuts. We spent all spring wanting to get some cool storms and stuff, now we just want it to be seasonal, and we are talkin severe weather.

December 15th, 2021 says "Hold my eggnog!"

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thenewguy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 3:22 pm haha

"call South Florida Plumbing for all your needs, conveniently located in the heart of Dundee"

I'd imagine you'd get more people asking why you are named that than people actually needing work done.

https://www.wichitaheating.com/ In Omaha...

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"Midwest" always amused and confused me. For some reason, Ohio is considered midwest. For me, if you draw an imaginary line from north to south through the middle of the 48 contiguous states that would give you the eastern and western halves of the country. Now, if you take that western h...

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Got me halfway through my lunchtime walk. I'm not made of sugar, so I didn't melt...

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Topeka/Wichita: Flint Hills.

Ark-La-Tex

Ok-La-Tex

Other names in the Omaha area are 'Midlands" and "Heartland".

GA/SC/NC: Low Country

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Caitlin Connell is leaving Channel Third. Don't know whose idea it was, but it's a bummer nonetheless.

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The article mentions airport access. That would be interesting. Off the top of my head, I believe Dallas has 'heavy-rail' access to DFW. They used Budd RDCs at startup, at least. Crow-flies, it looks like about 4 miles from MCI to the BNSF rail line. That's a lot of bux and NIMBY's to consider.

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Has anyone else noticed that the Blue Cross Blue Shield billboard on EB I-80 @ Giles doesn't show the NU FB scores anymore? Now it's something like "The greatest fans in college football drive on this road". Cringe. However given the past years, maybe they're trying to cut down on road rag...

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Well, part of the problem is that the Ricketts invested millions of dollars in pushing out any Republican that didn’t vote along their beliefs. Yeah the legislature may be non partisan, but extremely partisan forces have invested in making it into a partisan institution that makes all of that BS. A...

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bigredmed1 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:29 am
Elimination of the Electoral College instantly turns 35 of the states into second class citizens as NY, FL, TX, and CA can easily outvote entire states.

Yep, to forestall the advancement of the tyranny of the majority.

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nativeomahan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2023 9:57 pm Soon NFM will just be another acronym that most of its customers haven’t a clue as to what those letters stand for.

Like Burlington Northern Santa Fe changed to BNSF.

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I just looked at BNSF's route map and it shows a complete route from KC to OMA, just switch banks of the Missouri at Pac Jct, like the CZ does. Am I missing something? (Besides the 600lb question of how much will it cost to upgrade the route to 79 MPH...) As I said in the post above yours, they onl...

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I just looked at BNSF's route map and it shows a complete route from KC to OMA, just switch banks of the Missouri at Pac Jct, like the CZ does. Am I missing something? (Besides the 600lb question of how much will it cost to upgrade the route to 79 MPH...)

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Sean Brock And Anthony Bourdain Eat At The Waffle House https://youtu.be/bct8stbZafI?si=JDTOiZPLqFvTptrE After Anthony Bourdain and Sean Brock finish many, many, many rounds of drinks, they visit the best/only choice for late-night dining in Charleston, the Waffle House, an irony free zone where ev...

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I know we talk about urban cycling a lot under this topic, but I have had a friend involved in two separate, severe bicycle-automobile accidents in West Omaha in the last three years or so and they just reported a person was rear ended while bicycling. I added the italics because I thought it was a...

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I was happy with taking a drive to KC for Krispy Kreme. I flew to Atlanta enough to satisfy my Chik-Fil-A jones. Am I glad that they're now in Omaha? Sure, but my quality of life hasn't changed.

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Can confirm. Also, where the Scooter's and Pepperjax are, there was a mom-and-pop Phillips 66 station.

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Does Kansas feel left out? The only metro areas are KCK and ICT, and QuikTrip is the 800lb (363kg) gorilla in both. They might try for TOP, but that's a weird town by any number of metrics--no c-store brand has primacy there, and none seem willing to make a run at it. Hy-Vee, Dillon's/Kroger, and W...

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Busguy2010 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:36 am It would have only made too much sense geographically. Only they are tied to the ACC until 2036 or something and there's like a 120 million dollar buyout.

The Domers aligning themselves with the ACC was the worst thing possible for both entities.

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Once upon a time, I flew DL MD-88s to MSP and A319s to DTW. Conversely, I've flown an RJ from ATL to OMA once. Their ways are mysterious to man, but DL prints money.

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djc311 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:51 am
Damn bank (credit union). I understand their purpose, but do they really all make THAT much money? Especially all of these newbies popping up in the metro (Veridian is a good example).

Veridian useta be John Deere FCU. Newish to the OMA market, but they've been around for a while.

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KOMA has received Concorde before, so I think a 350 or 748 would be no sweat. Or a 380, for that matter. Aside, I flew to/from KDEN for the first time last week, and high/hot takeoffs are no joke--the flight to Omaha took forever to get off the ground! KDEN's runways are 12000 and 16000 ft. I guess...

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