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What situation are people in that property taxes are a significant part of their housing cost? Have you paid off your mortgage? I have a 2.625% 15yr loan and pay more on interest than property taxes in a year, let alone principal. If you've paid off your mortgage, and live in a $200k house you're ta...

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I believe less than 1/8th of Metro's revenue comes from fare collection, and that's before the cost of fareboxes, delays from taking fares, distributing fare cards, collecting/counting/depositing the small change, etc. Maybe their partnerships with UNO, MCC, etc are counted separately and significan...

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Quit with the tired false equivalence. Apples: A massive federal framework for systematically denying liquidity, primarily mortgages to African Americans for decades dramatically damaging generational wealth building. Oranges: A small time community lending organization with a focus on addressing pe...

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I'm in the Benson area and switched to Centurylink last year. The pricing isn't intro pricing and it's amazing to have the actual advertised price be the price I pay. No hidden fees and taxes like with the Cox prices. The service has been great, the speed is fantastic. I've had 2 outages for an hour...

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I am waiting to see if they do anything to streets that are a joke. Howard st 49 to 50 is so bad, you feel like you are off roading and that is with a home owner in the area filling in the craters. I fondly remember, ~25 years ago if we were behaved on the bus from school the bus driver would let u...

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Pre-demolishion auction in the classifieds today

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We've also really enjoyed the switch from Cox to CenturyLink and have had a similar lack of outages. My favorite part is that the $60/mo was the all in price, not the advertised price before another $20 in taxes and fees. There's something really gratifying about seeing that on the monthly bank stat...

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Omahacritic wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 10:01 pm All these businesses have been bending over backwards the past few weeks to show how “woke” they are.

Put their money where there mouth is ... go and hire some minorities. Invest in training the Same people you say you have woken too!

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Gray has been going back and forth on it, was for it up until the debate then said Jerram's arguments convinced him to vote against. My honest hope is that the scooters come back, businesses complain enough about them but they're so popular they have to stay and the city actually builds out protecte...

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There's really nothing about the main library layout that prevents it from being used as a digital first library. Certainly it would be easier to convert the second floor as an example in to rows of computers at tables with rooms for 3d printing machines on the ends ala Do Space from rows of book sh...

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The library was built in the time of brutalism. That style didn't age well at all. The World Herald Building and Federal Building have bits of that influence, too. Brutalism is making a comeback and has many current fans, the library and police headquarters are the best examples I can think of down...

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I think the flag they propose is nice and simple. Could there be a better design out there, maybe, but at least they've produced something. The current flag is a hard to see from a distance picture of people wanting so badly to leave Omaha that they would risk a high likelihood of death in a covered...

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I like it a lot too, from the website you linked, it's these people: https://daake.com/who-we-are

My favorite is

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The US birth-rate is under the replacement rate, *any* appreciable increase in total population is due to immigration. Domestic migration has hit a new all-time low in 2019 of 9.8 percent of the population. Compared to the 1960s, 20 percent of Americans moved to a new residence each year. People don...

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Driving past this building the other day I had to do a double-take it was so strikingly clean and fresh looking compared to the old worn out blighted appearance I was used to. Really a fantastic renovation.

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I think it looks a little worse than the old building did, but definitely far better than the original renderings. Even with it a bit less attractive than before I'm still glad it has a new and updated use and it's even got ground-level retail in an apartment building! I'll take a minor tradeoff in ...

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Fairacres is only dozens of homes. Malls fell out of style and corporate raiders feasted of the still breathing corpses of American enterprises. Buying companies with their own debt and sucking them dry to buy a dozen more mega yachts. Times change and just like the Center Mall before it Crossroads ...

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Quit being jerks to each other and just discuss your differing opinions in a productive way. Someone disagreeing with you isn't a personal attack, but comments like: Omahacritic is Rockharbor. Discuss. and I’m certain you won’t notice. But that’s okay. Some are fine with a PBW. And others enjoy livi...

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With electric scooter companies pulling out of a number of markets that introduce regulations and Omaha's posturing that it will enact more. Plus the pullback from VCs on burning cash on money-losing ventures with no path toward profitability. I don't think Omaha will see scooters again without subs...

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There's not a lot of 2br let alone 1br homes in this area. But a nicer, not new or fully renovated 3bed is going to rent for around 1,400 and sell for 160k-180k. Buying isn't a great choice for people who aren't going to live in the area for more than 3 years. Also buying comes with maintenance cost...

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The article about ORBT in the OWH today said that if the Dodge line is successful a South 24th / North 30th line is next

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Some discussion on it in this thread: https://eomahaforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5811&hilit=childrens&start=80#p262744 Also later someone said there will be a sky bridge from the Gold Building to the hospital across 84th. There was another OWH article about how it was a big hit to Wes...

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Just in Nebraska, they now own the papers in Omaha, Lincoln, Beatrice, Columbus, Fremont, North Platte, Kearney and Grand Island. (Also Council Bluffs). I'd guess they consolidate roughly all of those into effectively 1 paper, with 1-2 dedicated to North Platte, Kearney, and Grand Island. Maybe they...

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Same here plus Chase have one of the highest quality websites of any of the banks I use.

Meanwhile fnbo struggles to improve a website that belongs in the 90s and replaces bill pay with a paid ACH service with fees.

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Quite a bit of drama in Benson the other day with Todd Pfitzer contradicting Festerson on the news, I have checked with my director, my traffic engineer, and the traffic shop maintenance and none of us spoke with a representative from city council. re: the bike corral on Maple St. Today Festerson tw...

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I mean, they're clearly trying to play to the older neighborhood by imitating second empire buildings, many of which are white with black mansard roofs.

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Yeah, pretty nice that we've used taxes to help fund infrastructure and have a group of regulations requiring Major carriers to allow Mobile Virtual Network Operators.

Thanks for the topic reminding us of the benefits taxes can bring for all of us.

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One of the efficiencies that was directly called out in the Schwab announcement was reduced real-estate costs. It makes it pretty unlikely that they stay in the building after a dramatic reduction in the Omaha workforce. With Todd Ricketts and Trump being buddies, there's no way this gets blocked by...

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This doubles into the TD Ameritrade thread, but this twitter thread by Matthew Hansen was on point: https://twitter.com/redcloud_scribe/status/1197512240313831424 This is a story Omahans should read today while thinking about the following: 1. Charles Schwab is reportedly buying Omaha’s TD Ameritrad...

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Both sides are right on this, TIF was sold as a way to help poor and distressed areas. It is instead used as a development tool to make developing within the city competitive with greenfield development. Most people on this board, which is focused on new developments, want tools to encourage develop...

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Not to be a downer, but beltline likely just refers to how it's replacing some of the former route of the beltline railway in north o.

https://northomahahistory.com/2016/05/2 ... -nebraska/

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The one on Dodge at Saddle Creek had 6 cars overflowing on to Dodge at 5:30 pm yesterday. There were also cars in the Burger King parking lot, couldn't tell if they were just blocked in by the line, or trying to get in the line without being on Dodge. Pretty good commercial for the announcement: htt...

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Nice continued progress from Habitat in this area. There's already been some good infill of vacant and condemned lots by them, human-scale projects like these are really valuable.

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Until a week or two ago, I saw comments after articles. You had to be logged in to see them. They still have them at the bottom hidden by the "Load Comments" button. Example: https://www.omaha.com/sports/college/huskers/plus/rewind-husker-defense-must-do-little-things-right-and-not/articl...

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I'm glad Crawford got paid, but it's too bad he's not going to be able to fight any of the best at welterweight since they're all with PBC and he's with Top Rank.

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This is really a great asset to Aksarben. The restaurants they got for here are impressive.

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Omababe wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 5:28 am I saw someone riding TWO scooters the other day, fairly early in the morning. One for each foot! Really.

Probably a juicer, this is how the Spin employees I've seen put the scooters out when redistributing them too.

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A few of the National headlines/articles out there after the game are about Maurice Washington playing in the game while still facing child porn charges. Not the type of PR Nebraska needed. He has another court date on sept 3 - why not just keep him out until it is settled? Such a backwards situati...

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Sounds like most of the traffic it was built for in the 70s has moved to another arterial so they were never considering keeping 4 lanes. Glad to see them add the trail, I guess the alternative would be to return the right of way to the adjacent properties?

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I think she also owns the building, so hopefully she has a number of options to maximize her return.

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