"We are not thrilled, but it could have been worse," said Omaha attorney and liquor lobbyist Mike Kelley, who fashioned Omaha's loophole-filled smoking ban.
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- Fri May 30, 2008 6:40 pm
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Omaha/Nebraska Smoking Ban
- Replies: 700
- Views: 53597
- Fri May 30, 2008 3:35 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Omaha
- Topic: Just wanted to say thanks!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2167
- Fri May 30, 2008 3:34 pm
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Omaha/Nebraska Smoking Ban
- Replies: 700
- Views: 53597
- Fri May 30, 2008 11:22 am
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Omaha/Nebraska Smoking Ban
- Replies: 700
- Views: 53597
- Fri May 30, 2008 10:52 am
- Forum: Welcome to Omaha
- Topic: Just wanted to say thanks!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2167
- Fri May 30, 2008 10:50 am
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Omaha/Nebraska Smoking Ban
- Replies: 700
- Views: 53597
Almost the same article word for word on KPTM
http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=8400801
http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=8400801
The Supreme Court's Friday ruling will likely end the exceptions to the city ban even before a new statewide smoking ban takes effect in June 2009.
- Fri May 30, 2008 10:28 am
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Omaha/Nebraska Smoking Ban
- Replies: 700
- Views: 53597
- Thu May 29, 2008 4:27 pm
- Forum: Rumors
- Topic: Scarlet And Cream Letterclub Building
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3677
doesn't have great direct from the road access, and parking can be a pain, especially when the mall is busy. Actually it has an entrance/exit road on the east and west sides of it. Â I felt the biggest problem is that is hidden behind the theater. Â You don't see it unless you are actually looking ...
- Wed May 28, 2008 3:55 pm
- Forum: Business
- Topic: Omaha Area McDonalds
- Replies: 65
- Views: 15591
Omaha Area McDonalds
I went by yesterday on the way home and it was gone. Sign says new McDonalds is being built.
- Wed May 28, 2008 3:52 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Farm Credit Services of America (120 & Q)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3751
- Wed May 28, 2008 2:39 pm
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Farm Credit Services of America (120 & Q)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3751
Farm Credit Services of America (120 & Q)
I heard from a friend today that Farm Credit Services of America is going to be building a new building (77,000 sq ft) to go with what they already have on S 118th.
- Thu May 22, 2008 8:08 am
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Zoo's butterfly exhibit
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2596
Had a school trip to the zoo yesterday and made it into the Butterfly house (after a 20 min wait). Â It was ok although I was a bit disappointed in the size - I have been in two that were bigger. You enter through an entry of two automatic door systems. Then following a path around the outside of th...
- Tue May 20, 2008 10:41 pm
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: New Kids on the Block - Qwest 11/12
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1380
- Tue May 20, 2008 6:16 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: METRO (Formerly Metro Area Transit - MAT)
- Replies: 830
- Views: 217635
While MAT studies the racks for the last two years, it looks like Sioux Falls (a much smaller city) has put it into practice. City buses making room for cyclists staff reports • May 20, 2008 Bikers can give their cycles a lift on city buses. A cyclist can meet the bus at a bus stop, flash a card to ...
- Mon May 19, 2008 6:19 am
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Police @ QCO 5/14/2008 - BAD Photos Added
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1506
I heard that the Police and their entourage had nothing but praise for the QWEST and its employees while they were here, They said the people were easy to work,  with accommodating and the QWEST was a class act.  They supposedly said it was a much better situation than where  they were the night ...
- Sun May 18, 2008 10:52 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Aksarben Village
- Replies: 2396
- Views: 457090
- Sun May 18, 2008 8:00 am
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium
- Replies: 1308
- Views: 195226
http://omaha.com/neo-images/photos/large/517pkzoo1.jpg Other possible new attractions include an Australian outback exhibit, three splash fountains to help kids cool off in the summer heat and a chair skyway. Similar to a ski lift, the skyway would carry people between the zoo entrance and the new ...
- Sun May 18, 2008 7:52 am
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: Aksarben Village
- Replies: 2396
- Views: 457090
- Sun May 18, 2008 12:28 am
- Forum: Business
- Topic: First Data
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14012
- Sat May 17, 2008 9:30 am
- Forum: Business
- Topic: First Data
- Replies: 67
- Views: 14012
400 may lose First Data jobs About 400 highly paid Omaha programmers will lose their jobs this year when First Data Corp. outsources some of its software programming work, probably to Argentina and Brazil. The employees said they were told that 80 percent of the people in production programming sto...
- Fri May 16, 2008 1:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Deck Builder?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 692
Deck Builder?
I need to replace my upper wooden deck --- approx 12x24 Â and 8-10 feet off the ground -- I have one contractor coming over to give an estimate but wondering if anyone has had experience with any deck/handyman builders.
- Fri May 16, 2008 10:43 am
- Forum: Omaha Metro Area Government
- Topic: Omaha Mayoral Discussion
- Replies: 639
- Views: 72544
city is facing financial disaster. Disaster might be a bit strong bu with some of the things the city is going to have to pay for in the near future --- sewer, pension and ever increasing roads -- I feel things are going to get tight moneywise and some not so popular decisions are going to have to ...
- Thu May 15, 2008 11:37 am
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Police @ QCO 5/14/2008 - BAD Photos Added
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1506
- Thu May 15, 2008 10:00 am
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Police @ QCO 5/14/2008 - BAD Photos Added
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1506
I thought it was pretty good too. By your photos Brad I thought maybe you found better seats. Â I talked to a friend just now and they moved him from section 222 to section 123... ticket upgrade :yes: Although I have yet to figure out why people leave before the concert is over...... I guess they wa...
- Mon May 12, 2008 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Local Gas Prices
- Replies: 872
- Views: 109661
- Mon May 12, 2008 8:57 am
- Forum: Dining/Culture/Entertainment
- Topic: Def Leppard coming to Omaha (8/17/2008)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1517
Def Leppard and Billy Idol coming to Omaha
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2 ... d=10331202
Looks like the combination has changed.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2 ... d=10331202
Looks like the combination has changed.
- Sun May 11, 2008 11:31 am
- Forum: Business
- Topic: Berkshire Hathaway Business News
- Replies: 89
- Views: 14419
- Sun May 11, 2008 7:33 am
- Forum: Business
- Topic: Berkshire Hathaway Business News
- Replies: 89
- Views: 14419
Postcard: Omaha A 77-year-old Nebraskan who lives in a house he bought in 1958 and reimburses his company for personal telephone calls might make an unlikely candidate to be the most revered capitalist of our day. Yet that's what Warren Buffett is. And every year, devotees travel to the Berkshire H...
- Sat May 10, 2008 7:50 am
- Forum: Business
- Topic: Westroads Auto Row Renovations - mini addition
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8777
I was wondering the same thing Thursday night.  I was heading east from village pointe on W Dodge and I could see the fireworks in the distance.  Then when I was getting on to I-680 N --- I went right under and right through all the smoke.  All I could tell  was it seemed to be coming from somew...
- Thu May 08, 2008 1:11 pm
- Forum: Urban Omaha Development
- Topic: The Breakers Apartments - Old Power Plant
- Replies: 213
- Views: 48096
- Thu May 08, 2008 6:26 am
- Forum: Suburban Omaha Development
- Topic: Sorenson Park Plaza
- Replies: 221
- Views: 43085
- Wed May 07, 2008 6:20 am
- Forum: Business
- Topic: Berkshire Hathaway Business News
- Replies: 89
- Views: 14419
- Mon May 05, 2008 10:37 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
- Replies: 3551
- Views: 496869
- Mon May 05, 2008 8:42 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
- Replies: 3551
- Views: 496869
put a line in to dead end Talking dead ends -- I remember seeing a map with one of the first proposed routes that would bring it up Webster to dead end at about 20th street which would more or less be in the middle of Creighton's campus. Are there a lot of students who travel into the Old Market ar...
- Fri May 02, 2008 2:23 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
- Replies: 3551
- Views: 496869
- Fri May 02, 2008 1:09 pm
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
- Replies: 3551
- Views: 496869
the reason you don't want it to go down Cuming is that it's just too busy. So is 10th street and the plan is to have it run down that. Â It would probably add a little less than a mile to the length and better serve the area along Cuming (hotels/banquet/inplay/front of stadium/and whatever develops...
- Fri May 02, 2008 9:10 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
- Replies: 3551
- Views: 496869
Although that is true --- the main/front entrance would be Cuming and 13th -- correct? Nothing against Creighton but I don't understand the route I have seen that would take it from 10th straight up Webster to 20th and back down to 10th. Â Personally I feel the streetcar should go up Webster to abou...
- Fri May 02, 2008 6:22 am
- Forum: Transportation
- Topic: Omaha Streetcar Discussion
- Replies: 3551
- Views: 496869
- Thu May 01, 2008 6:18 am
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Downtown goal: kicking butts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2647
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:32 pm
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Downtown goal: kicking butts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2647
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